VXVM(veritas volume manager training) 7 of 10Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing provides greater availability, reliability to SAN paths and it increase the SAN I/O using load balancing .SAN path redundancy ensured by path failover. What is multi-pathing software ?Server is connected to SAN using one or more fiber channel(FC) in […]
Tutorials
VXVM tutorial-6- Volume online relayout
VXVM(veritas volume manager training) 6 of 10 VXVM Volume – online Re-layout:In this post we are going to see how to convert the volume from one layout to another layout without un-mounting the volume.You can use the vxassist re-layout command to reconfigure the layout of a volume without taking it offline. Supported re-layout for concatenated volumes 1. […]
VXVM Tutorial 5 – Volume resize
VXVM(veritas volume manager training) 5 of 10 Volume Resize: VXVM is very flexible and reliable volume manager to resize volumes without un-mounting it. we can re-size the volumes using vxassist and resize filesystem using fsadm.vxresize command will perform both volume and filesystem re-size operation simultaneously. Here we are going to see how […]
VXVM Tutorial4 – Volume Operations
VXVM(veritas volume manager training) 4 of 10VxVM builds volume using virtual objects of VM disks, disk groups, subdisks, and plexes.These virtual objects can organized easily using vxassist command to create new volume.Here we are going to see about how to create a new volumes with different layout […]
VXVM Tutorial3 – Diskgroup Operations
VXVM(veritas volume manager training) 3 of 10 The vxdg utility performs various diskgroup operations that includes the creation of disk groups, addition of disks in to diskgroup,removing disk from diskgroup.This command performs disk group imports and deports as well.Here we are going to see how create a new […]
VXVM – DISK Operations tutorial
VXVM(veritas volume manager training) 2 of 10 In this post, we will see how to scan the physical disks and bringing the disks in to veritas volume manager control. In this short post, let’s see how to scan new disk in vxvm, disk naming convention and how to bring it in […]
VXVM (Veritas Volume Manager) Training
VXVM(veritas volume manager training) Objective: Learn how to integrate, operate, VERITAS Storage Foundation in a Solaris environment. This training provides instruction on operational management procedures for VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) and you will learn how to install and configure VERITAS Volume Manager and how to manage disks, disk groups, and volumes by using from the command line.For your […]
Demonstration ZFS snapshots on Solaris
ZFS snapshot is one of the cool features in Solaris .Using the snapshot, we can take the online backup and using “zfs send” feature we can send the zfs snapshot stream to any remote location and receive from there as well.These snapshots are space optimized and snapshot will not hold any disk-space in the initial stage. It will just […]
ZFS quick command reference with examples
ZFS-Zetta Byte filesystem is introduced on Solaris 10 Release.To develop this filesystem cum volume manager,Sun Micro-systems had spend lot of years and some billion dollars money. ZFS has many cool features over traditional volume managers like SVM,LVM,VXVM.Here is the some of the advantages listed below.Advantages:1.Zpool Capacity of 256 zettabytes2.ZFS snapshots,clones and Sending-receiving snapshots3.Lightweight filesystem creation4.Encryption5.Software RAID6.Data integrity 7.Integrated Volume management (No need an additional volume manager)Disadvantages:1.No way […]
RedhatLinux SAN Migration using LVM
What would be the best way to do the SAN Migration in Redhat Linux LVM? Would the pvmove work? I would recommend you to go for LVM mirroring since its a safest method and zero downtime to perform this activity. First, you need to add the new SAN LUNS in the volume group and mirror […]