These are the commonly used commands used for semantecs veritas volume manager. Using vxassist simplifies many vxvm tasks, but you should pay careful attention to the defaults you. Aix logical volume manager and veritas volume manager october 2000 november 30, 2000. To exclude a file or a directory path that was previously included in the restore, place an exclamation mark. Veritas volume manager administrators guide hpux 11i v3. It offers volume management and multipath io functionalities when. An example of this is using a single vxassist command to set up a volume. Using vxassist simplifies many vxvm tasks, but you should pay careful attention to the defaults you will inherit when setting up volumes using this tool. Introducing veritas foundation suite for aix ibm redbooks. In addition, you learn about data replication using veritas file replicator and veritas volume replicator. I had two disk three disks failing two of them in a volume tdisk4 and the third one was part of another volume named tdisk5 the thing is that i successfully replaced the three disks and now the systems saw them and i can manage them but when i try to put the new discovered luns under vxvm control it failed. Vcs cheat sheet complete june, 2018 ramesh test123 0 veritas cluster server also known as vcs and also sold bundled in the sfha product is a highavailability cluster software, for unix, linux and microsoft windows computer systems, created by veritas software now part of symantec.
Although i have worked with hpux 1011 vmm is integrted, i still dont know what is the command for modifying, monitoring and troubleshooting vvm on solaris 8. So i would like to know if i upgrade to solaris 10 0606. Veritas cluster cheat sheet vcs uses two components, llt and gab to share data over the private networks among systems. When you want to inspect a large setup or sometimes even a small one. Veritas volume manager administrators guide hpux 11i v3 5. Veritas volume manager command quick reference backup. It is available for windows, aix, solaris, linux, and hpux. This site will be updating to the latest content for the next few hours and may be intermittently slow.
Veritas offers the veritas volume manager vxvm which is either packaged as a standalone addon or part of a larger package such as the veritas online storage manager. Not specifying a block size allow veritas to dynamically assign one for you based upon the size of the volume. Veritas will not release the shell until it completes the task. Create filesystem on top of volumes using mkfs or newfs, and you can create either vxfs filesystem or ufs filesystem. Advanced interactive executive aix operating system. It is recommended that you add the following directories to your path environment variable. Llt llt low latency transport provides fast, kerneltokernel comms and monitors network connections. Discovery collects disk and volume information for veritas volume manager vxvm on linux hosts and maps file systems mounted on veritas volumes to the upstream storage provider. The veritas volume manager storage foundation administration course provides students with the essential information and skills to manage storage using veritas volume manager vxvm software. Page 96 configuring vcs clusters for data integrity preparing to configure diskbased io fencing command option verifies that the same serial number for the lun is returned on all paths to the lun. It also documents common error messages and suggests solutions. Veritas volume manager vxvm is a popular and powerful, enterpriseclass storage management tool. If you are using the bourne or korn shell sh or ksh, use the commands.
Veritas volume manager interview questions may 10, 20 by lingeswaran r 3 comments unix system administration is not an easy job and attending interview is an another toughest one. Llt llt low latency transport provides fast, kernelto. Veritas volume manager administrators guide solaris. Veritas dynamic multipathing dmp provides the multipathing capability to the native devices on the system. To attach this plex to the volume type the command below. The vxprint command displays detailed information about the vxvm objects that exist on a system. Displaying volume and plex states to display detailed information about the configuration of a volume including its state and the states of its plexes, use the vxprintcommand. Ive another compilation of vxvm command reference, have a look.
May 10, 20 veritas volume manager interview questions may 10, 20 by lingeswaran r 3 comments unix system administration is not an easy job and attending interview is an another toughest one. Veritas infoscale operations manager viom web console. Jun 11, 2010 to attach this plex to the volume type the command below. Our volumes would default to 1024 for a block size on our 4 gb volumes, and. Create volumes under disk group using vxmake or vxassist commands 6. Reattach plex to the volume in veritas volume manager.
Cvm commands supported for executing on the slave node. A modified version is bundled with hpux as its builtin volume manager. Veritas, veritas software, the veritas logo, and all other veritas product names and slogans are trademarks or. Never type a command twice, write a program for it. Jan 01, 2010 veritas volume manager 2 covers vxassist command for volume management. A beginners guide to veritas dynamic multipathing vxdmp. Veritas volume manager quick reference disk commands. Veritas volume manager command quick reference backup activity. Jun, 2018 vcs cheat sheet complete june, 2018 ramesh test123 0 veritas cluster server also known as vcs and also sold bundled in the sfha product is a highavailability cluster software, for unix, linux and microsoft windows computer systems, created by veritas software now part of symantec.
See about specifying the locale of the netbackup installation in the netbackup administrators guide, volume ii. To display volume and plex states type the following command. How dmp works vxvm uses the dmp metanodes dmp nodes to access disk devices connected to the system. Oct 14, 20 these are the commonly used commands used for semantecs veritas volume manager. Veritas volume manager interview questions unixarena. Add the disks to veritas disk group using vxdg commands 5. The compilation is most accurate and have been compiled from live server use. Jun 24, 2008 veritas volume manager vxvm is a storage management subsystem that lets you manage physical disks as logical devices called volumes.
Veritas volume manager vxvm allows to you create logical volume, spanning over multiple disks. This is a continuation post for our previous post beginners lesson veritas volume manager for solaris learning vxvm administration will be much easier by understanding below three things 1. Another good way is to check calculations is to check volume size vxprint v against filesystems in df h to check your calculations to mbs are approxiametly the same. You can obtain the guide in pdf format from the following web site. Let us see how we can create a basic volume and a file system with veritas volume manager. Veritas volume manager is used to manage disk storage spread over an array of disks. Students are introduced to the installation, initialization, and configuration of vxvm and to general performance issues. Vxvm allows a system administrator to configure various volume layouts for the volume thus allowing high redundancy and high performance. How veritas volume manager treats operating system native disks into veritas volumes 2. I have added six, 1 gb disks other than two, 16 gb disks for root mirroring to my vmware virtual machine for future. Aug 10, 2011 this is a continuation post for our previous post beginners lesson veritas volume manager for solaris learning vxvm administration will be much easier by understanding below three things 1. Describes recovery from hardware failure, disk group configuration and restoration, command and transaction.
Vxvm upgrade procedure for hp ux hewlett packard enterprise. Veritas volume manager administrators guide thesoftwaredescribedinthisbookisfurnishedunderalicenseagreementandmaybeused only in accordance with the terms of the. Symantec veritas cluster server installation manual pdf download. Dmp creates dmp metadevices dmp nodes to represent all the device e paths to the same physical lun. Using vxassist with its v flag will display the actual vxvm commands used during volume construction. A vxvm volume appears to applications and the operating system as a physical disk on which file systems, databases, and other managed data objects can be configured. This overcomes physical limit of the disk provides high availability storage thru raid and mirroring provides transferable disk group ownership between systems and fail. Veritas volume manager is the most widely used software for volume. These components provide the performance and reliability required by vcs. You also learn how to configure veritas cluster volume manager and veritas cluster file system.
You learn the basics of online file system administration and recovery from disk failures. Beginners lesson veritas volume manager for solaris. This article describes the volume manager objects and configuration of these objects using a text menu based utility called vxdiskadm. Creating a volume with dirty region logging enabled.
The lvm is built into the base operating system and is provided as part of the base aix installation. Manage your logical volumes with veritas volume manager vxvm. Open another terminal and type vxtask list to check the status. Veritas volume manager 2 covers vxassist command for volume management. The veritas volume manager vvm or vxvm is a proprietary logical volume manager from veritas which was part of symantec until january 2016. Veritas volume manager administrators guide oracle docs. Page 96 configuring vcs clusters for data integrity preparing to configure diskbased io fencing command option verifies that the same serial number for. The following example shows a disabled volume, vol, which has two.
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