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
Creating an LVM root disk from a VxVM root disk
In some circumstances, it may be necessary to boot the system from an LVM root disk. If an LVM root disk is no longer available or an existing LVM root disk is out-of-date, you can use the vxres_lvmrootcommand to create an LVM root disk on a spare physical disk that is not currently under LVM or VxVM control. The contents of the volumes on the existing VxVM root disk are copied to the new LVM root disk, and the LVM disk is then made bootable. This operation does not remove the VxVM root disk or any mirrors of this disk, nor does it affect their bootability.
The target disk must be large enough to accommodate the volumes from the VxVM root disk.
Warning:
This procedure should be carried out at init level 1.
This example shows how to create an LVM root disk on physical disk c0t1d0 after removing the existing LVM root disk configuration from that disk.
# /etc/vx/bin/vxdestroy_lvmroot -v c0t1d0 # /etc/vx/bin/vxres_lvmroot -v -b c0t1d0
The -b option to vxres_lvmroot sets c0t1d0 as the primary boot device.
As these operations can take some time, the verbose option, -v, is specified to indicate how far the operation has progressed.
See the vxres_lvmroot (1M) manual page.