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Veritas Volume Manager (Vxvm)

June 2, 2011 Solarisandveritas Leave a comment Go to comments Introduction to volume manager Volume manager is software which is used to following purpose:* Increase the storage capacity online *Increase the data availability online *Increase the performance online Advantages of Veritas Volume Manager * Its Supports hydrogenous environment * Its supports peta bytes * 4000 sub disks per 1 vmdisk * Man page size of the volume can be up to 255tb * Online file system management * Fast file system recovery *Fast file system Reboot
Vxvm packages VRTS Vxvm Its a main configuration package which contains the core related files of vxvm
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VRTS Vlic Its a package which is responsible for veritas volume manager licensing VRTS Vmman This package is responsible for vxvm manual pages VRTS Vmsa This package is responsible for administrating the vxvm in GUI VRTS Vmdoc Its a package which is responsible for veritas documentation VRTS Vmdev Its a package which contains veritas developer kits VRTS Vxfs Its a package which is responsible for veritas file system VRTS Vmlib Its a package which contains veritas volume manager library files Vxvm Interface 1) CLI (Command Line Interface) 2) VEA (Veritas Enterprise Administration) 3) Veritas Menu Based Operation Note:We cannot run vxdiskadm command simultaneously on more than one terminal.
Vxvm daemons 1. Vxconfigd Its a main configuration daemon which is responsible for updating the changes happen on the disk group to kernel 2. vxiod Its a main configuration daemon which is responsible for veritas input and output kernel threads
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3. vxrelocd Its a main configuration daemon which is responsible for invoke the hot spare to the failed disk partition. In Vxvm we have a two type of objects:i) Physical objects a) Physical disk b) Physical partition ii) Virtual objects a) Physical disk if you are creating a more then one logical partition in the same disk its called as physical disk it represent as follows c1t1d0s, c2t1d0, c3t1d0 b) Physical partition The whole disk which as act as a single logical partition is called as a physical partition it represent as follows c1t1d0s2
ii) Virtual objects These are the objects which are creating under Vxvm. These also called as Vxvm objects (ex) Virtual objects a) Vxvm disk (or) Vmdisk b) Disk group c) Sub Disks d) Plexs e) Volume Vxvm disk (or) Vmdisk:The disk which is under Vxvm control is called as vmdisk. We can name the vmdiak up to maximum number of 32 characters. Vmdisk name should be unique in the disk group. Disk Group:Disk Group is a collection of Vmdisks. To create a disk group minimum requirement is one Vmdisk and
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maximum is no limitations. We can create up to a maximum of 8 disk group for a machine. Before version 4.0 the first disk group name is rootdg from version 4.1 its a user defines. Before version 4.0 the last Vmdisk in a disk group is wasted it cannot be used for the future purpose, where in version 4.1 we can destroy the whole disk group. Sub disks:The logical partition under the Vmdisk is called as sub disks. We can create up to maximum of 400 sub disk for Vmdisks, sub disks should be unique in a disk group Plexs:Plex is collections of sub disks. To create a plex minimum is one sub disk maximum is no limitations. Volumes:Volume is a collection of plex, to create a Volume minimum is one plex maximum is 32 plexs. The default behavior of the volume is depending on the layout of the plex. The plex is concatenated plex the volume is become a concatenated volume. The plex is striped plex the volume is become a striped volume.
After created the volume:*Start the volume *Format the volume *Mount the volume *Update it in /etc.vfstab Veritas Volume Manager (Vxvm) Internet Architecture
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(EX) #vxprint -v #vxvol -g rootdg start vol01 #mkfs -F vxfs /dev/vx/rdsk/rootdg/vol01 #mount -F vxfs /dev/vx/dsk/rootdg/vol01 /sun We can bring the physical disk under Vxvm control in two different ways. i) Initialization:When we bring the physical disk under Vxvm by initialization il will not prissiest the existing data it format whole disk & bring under Vxvm control. ii) Encaptualization Encaptualization will be preserves the existing data if you want to go root disk mirroring first we have to encaptulized the root disk and have to mirror. In every Vmdisk we have a two region a) Public region Public region contains preserved data information or user data information b) Private region Private region contains the complete information about Vxvm internal configuration objects information. The default information size 2kb that is version 4.1, From 5.0 it increase up to maximum 32mb. The default format of Vmdisk is CDS (Cross Platform Sharing) This CDS format enables other flavors of UNIX or machine running in different platform to access the data. This CDS disks should not be used as boot disk. So these disk cannot use for root disk mirroring. Note:The Vmdisk with sliced format will be having bootable feature we wont to get root disk mirroring.
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