Veritas™ Volume Manager Administrator's Guide
- Understanding Veritas Volume Manager
- VxVM and the operating system
- How VxVM handles storage management
- Volume layouts in VxVM
- Online relayout
- Volume resynchronization
- Dirty region logging
- Volume snapshots
- FastResync
- Provisioning new usable storage
- Administering disks
- Disk devices
- Discovering and configuring newly added disk devices
- Discovering disks and dynamically adding disk arrays
- How to administer the Device Discovery Layer
- Changing the disk-naming scheme
- Adding a disk to VxVM
- Rootability
- Displaying disk information
- Removing disks
- Removing and replacing disks
- Administering Dynamic Multi-Pathing
- How DMP works
- Administering DMP using vxdmpadm
- Gathering and displaying I/O statistics
- Specifying the I/O policy
- Online dynamic reconfiguration
- Reconfiguring a LUN online that is under DMP control
- Creating and administering disk groups
- About disk groups
- Displaying disk group information
- Creating a disk group
- Importing a disk group
- Moving disk groups between systems
- Handling cloned disks with duplicated identifiers
- Handling conflicting configuration copies
- Reorganizing the contents of disk groups
- Destroying a disk group
- Creating and administering subdisks and plexes
- Displaying plex information
- Reattaching plexes
- Creating volumes
- Types of volume layouts
- Creating a volume
- Using vxassist
- Creating a volume on specific disks
- Creating a mirrored volume
- Creating a striped volume
- Creating a volume using vxmake
- Initializing and starting a volume
- Using rules and persistent attributes to make volume allocation more efficient
- Administering volumes
- Displaying volume information
- Monitoring and controlling tasks
- Reclamation of storage on thin reclamation arrays
- Stopping a volume
- Resizing a volume
- Adding a mirror to a volume
- Preparing a volume for DRL and instant snapshots
- Adding traditional DRL logging to a mirrored volume
- Enabling FastResync on a volume
- Performing online relayout
- Adding a RAID-5 log
- Creating and administering volume sets
- Configuring off-host processing
- Administering hot-relocation
- How hot-relocation works
- Moving relocated subdisks
- Administering cluster functionality (CVM)
- Overview of clustering
- Multiple host failover configurations
- CVM initialization and configuration
- Dirty region logging in cluster environments
- Administering VxVM in cluster environments
- Changing the CVM master manually
- Importing disk groups as shared
- Administering sites and remote mirrors
- About sites and remote mirrors
- Fire drill - testing the configuration
- Changing the site name
- Administering the Remote Mirror configuration
- Failure and recovery scenarios
- Performance monitoring and tuning
- Appendix A. Using Veritas Volume Manager commands
- Appendix B. Configuring Veritas Volume Manager
Listing shared disk groups
vxdg can be used to list information about shared disk groups. To display information for all disk groups, use the following command:
# vxdg list
Example output from this command is displayed here:
NAME STATE ID group2 enabled,shared 774575420.1170.teal group1 enabled,shared 774222028.1090.teal
Shared disk groups are designated with the flag shared.
To display information for shared disk groups only, use the following command:
# vxdg -s list
Example output from this command is as follows:
NAME STATE ID group2 enabled,shared 774575420.1170.teal group1 enabled,shared 774222028.1090.teal
To display information about one specific disk group, use the following command:
# vxdg list diskgroup
The following is example output for the command vxdg list group1 on the master:
Group: group1 dgid: 774222028.1090.teal import-id: 32768.1749 flags: shared version: 140 alignment: 8192 (bytes) ssb: on local-activation: exclusive-write cluster-actv-modes: node0=ew node1=off detach-policy: local dg-fail-policy: leave copies: nconfig=2 nlog=2 config: seqno=0.1976 permlen=1456 free=1448 templen=6 loglen=220 config disk c1t0d0 copy 1 len=1456 state=clean online vconfig disk c1t0d0 copy 1 len=1456 state=clean onlinev log disk c1t0d0 copy 1 len=220 log disk c1t0d0 copy 1 len=220
Note that the flags field is set to shared. The output for the same command when run on a slave is slightly different. The local-activation and cluster-actv-modes fields display the activation mode for this node and for each node in the cluster respectively. The detach-policy and dg-fail-policy fields indicate how the cluster behaves in the event of loss of connectivity to the disks, and to the configuration and log copies on the disks.