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In general, the information in the VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) User's Guide and the VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) System Administrator's Guide applies to the VxVM ``basic'' product and to the Mirroring product, with some exceptions.
The exceptions are listed in the following tables. All the listed topics do not apply to the Volume Manager ``basic'' product. In addition, the tables list which topics do not apply to the Mirroring product.
For example, in the ``Volume Manager (VxVM) User's Guide'' table, the topic ``Creating a File System on a Mirrored Volume,'' does not apply to the VxVM ``basic'' product, but does apply to the Mirroring product.
Chapters and topics that are not listed in the tables are applicable for all products, or are general, descriptive information.
Volume Manager (VxVM) System Administrator's Guide
|
Topics (none of these apply to the basic VxVM product) |
Applies to Mirroring product? |
|---|---|
| Chapter 4 - Disk Operations | |
| 4.3.3 Adding a VM Disk to the Hot-Relocation Pool | No |
| 4.3.4 Removing a VM Disk from the Hot-Relocation Pool | No |
| Chapter 5 - File System Operations | |
| 5.3.2 Creating a File System on a Striped Volume | No |
| 5.3.3 Creating a File System on a RAID-5 Volume | No |
| 5.3.4 Creating a File System on a Mirrored Volume | Yes |
| 5.12.2.2 Striped Volume/FS Create Form | No |
| 5.12.2.3 RAID-5 Volume/FS Create Form | No |
| Chapter 6 - Volume Operations | |
| 6.2.2 Creating a Striped Volume | No |
| 6.2.3 Creating a RAID-5 Volume | No |
| 6.2.4 Creating a Mirrored Volume | Yes |
| 6.2.5 Creating a Striped and Mirrored Volume | No |
| 6.4 Adding a Mirror to a Volume | Yes |
| 6.5 Adding a Log | No |
| 6.6 Removing a Mirror or a Log | Yes |
| 6.8 Preparing a Volume for Online Backup | No |
| 6.11.2.2 Striped Volume/FS Create Form | No |
| 6.11.2.3 RAID-5 Volume/FS Create Form | No |
| 6.11.2.5 Snapshot Form | No |
| Chapter 7 - Plex Operations | |
| 7.5 Detaching a Plex | No |
| 7.6 Attaching a Plex | No |
| Chapter 8 - Subdisk Operations | |
| 8.4.1 Log Subdisks | No |
| Chapter 10 - Disk CLI Operations | |
| 10.3.2 Adding a VM Disk to the Hot-Relocation Pool | No |
| 10.3.3 Removing a VM Disk From the Hot-Relocation Pool | No |
| 10.4 Mirroring the Boot Disk | Yes |
| Chapter 12 - Volume CLI Operations | |
| 12.2.2 Creating a Striped Volume | No |
| 12.2.3 Creating a RAID-5 Volume | No |
| 12.3 Removing a Volume | No |
| 12.4 Mirroring a Volume | Yes |
| 12.5 Adding a RAID-5 Log | No |
| 12.6 Adding a DRL Log | No |
| 12.7 Removing a Mirror | No |
| 12.8 Removing a Raid-5 Log | No |
| 12.9 Extending a Volume | No |
| 12.10 Shrinking a Volume | No |
| 12.11 Preparing a Volume for Online Backup | No |
| Chapter 13 - Menu Interface Operations | |
| 13.3.4 Adding a VM Disk to the Hot-Relocation Pool | No |
| 13.3.5 Removing a VM Disk From the Hot-Relocation Pool | No |
| 13.4.1 Mirroring Volumes on a VM Disk | Yes |
| 13.4.2 Moving Volumes from a VM Disk | No |
Volume Manager (VxVM) User's Guide
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Topics (none of these apply to the basic VxVM product) |
Applies to Mirroring product? |
|---|---|
| Chapter 2 - Performance Monitoring | No |
| 2.2 Performance Guidelines | No |
| 2.2.1 Data Assignment | No |
| 2.2.2 Striping | No |
| 2.2.3 Mirroring | Yes |
| 2.2.4 Mirroring and Striping | No |
| 2.2.5 Using RAID-5 | No |
| 2.2.6 Hot-Relocation | No |
| 2.3.1 Performance Priorities | No |
| 2.3.3 Using Performance Data | No |
| 2.4.2.8 voldrl_min_regionsz | No |
| 2.4.2.9 voldrl_max_drtregs | No |
| Chapter 3 - Disk and Disk Group Administration | |
| 3.6 Detecting and Replacing Failed Disks | No |
| Chapter 4 - Volume Administration | |
| 4.4.4.1 Associating Log Subdisks | No |
| 4.5.1 Creating Plexes | Yes |
| 4.5.2 Backup Using Mirroring | Yes |
| 4.5.4 Dissociating and Removing Plexes | Yes |
| 4.5.8 Moving Plexes | No |
| 4.5.9 Copying Plexes | No |
| 4.6.7.3 Changing Volume Read Policy | Yes |
| 4.6.9 Mirroring Existing Volumes | Yes |
| 4.7 RAID-5 Volume Operations | No |
| 4.8 Performing Online Backup | No |
| Appendix A - Volume Manager Error Messages | |
| A.3.2.37 System boot disk does not have a valid root plex | No |
| A.3.4.2 Detached log for volume | No |
| A.3.4.7 Volume entering degraded mode | Yes |
| A.4.1.3 Read error on object of mirror in volume corrected | Yes |
| A.4.2.4 Read error on mirror of volume | Yes |
| A.4.2.5 Write error on mirror of volume offset length | Yes |
| A.4.2.7 Overlapping mirror detached from volume | No |
| A.4.2.10 Detaching RAID-5 volume | No |
| A.4.2.11 Object detached from RAID-5 volume | No |
| A.4.2.12 RAID-5 volume entering degraded mode operation | No |
| A.4.2.13 Double failure condition detected on RAID-5 volume | No |
| A.4.2.14 Failure in RAID-5 logging operation | No |
| Appendix B - Recovery | No |