Vm solaris 10 or physical machine with solaris 10,vxvm 5. Dynamic lun expansion in veritas volume manager on solaris os by ramdev published february 8, 2012 updated july 2, 2015 in under storage configuration section, we have already discussed many examples on how to expand a filesystem using the new storage luns allocated to a server. Llt llt low latency transport provides fast, kerneltokernel comms and monitors network connections. Disksuite was released as an addon product for sunos. Solaris 8 sparc platform 32bit and 64bit solaris 9 sparc platform 32bit and 64bit solaris 10 sparc or x64 platform 64bit. Veritas volume manager and a storage area network sans institute. 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. Vxvm cheat sheet these are the commonly used commands used for semantecs veritas volume manager. Our volumes would default to 1024 for a block size on our 4 gb volumes, and 2048 for our 8gb volume. A modified version is bundled with hpux as its built in volume manager. Solaris 10 os update 2 0606 including solaris zfs storage four sun storagetek 3500 arrays, each with 48 x 72 gb disks, fiber channel interface, 4 x 2 gb pcix 3 mhz software veritas volume manager 4. Supported with oracle solaris 10 1 and oracle solaris cluster 3. There are several volume manager objects that must be understood before you can use the volume manager to perform disk management tasks.
Veritas volume manager vxvm is a management tool that aims to remove the physical limitations of disk storage so that it can be con. The subdisks in a given column can be derived from different physical disks. Solaris 10 veritas volume manager solutions experts exchange. The following veritas storage foundation packages will be installed on all systems. Veritas volume manager on solaris 10x86 oracle community. What is the command to see the veritas volume manager 3. The solaris volume manager svm is a free component of solaris 9 and solaris 10. Adding a disk to vxvm 50 veritas volume manager administrator s guide.
These are the commonly used commands used for semantecs veritas volume manager. Veritas volume manager is a storage management application by symantec, which allows you to manage physical disks as logical devices called volumes. Emc host connectivity guide for oracle solaris pn 300000607 rev a53. Depending on your setup, theres a legal way of running veritas volume manager on solaris if you dont mind a powerconsuming, noisy, and heavy hardware dongle dubbing as a fcal disc array. Vxvm is an advanced, systemlevel disk and storage array solution that. Veritas cluster cheat sheet vcs uses two components, llt and gab to share data over the private networks among systems. Physical objects are direct mappings to physical disks 2.
This file can also be used to recover the svm configuration if your system loses the information maintained in the state database. Dynamic lun expansion in veritas volume manager on solaris. Vxvm is a storage management subsystem that lets you manage physical disks as logical devices. This article describes the volume manager objects and configuration of these objects using a text menu based utility called vxdiskadm. Install veritas volume manager on solaris 10 blogger. 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. Dell emc host connectivity guide for oracle solaris pn 300000607 rev 55 published. Chapter 12 troubleshooting veritas volume replicator. Appendix c migrating from solaris volume manager to vxvm. A plex consists of one or more subdisks located on one or more physical disks.
Manage your logical volumes with veritas volume manager vxvm. If its come to solaris then you should have good knowledge in. A piece of my mind on oracle, unixlinux, cisco, storage, tape library and veritas netbackup. The veritas storage foundation consists of the veritas volume manager and the veritas file system. Veritas volume manager administrators guide solaris. It is available for windows, aix, solaris, linux, and hpux. Svm software provides mechanisms to configure physical slices of harddrive into logical volumes. I have solaris 10 installed on a sparc wanted to test veritas volume manager to manage the disks. Jun 24, 2008 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. Solaris volume manager svm command line reference cheat sheet.
Veritas storage foundation is supported on the following solaris operating systems. Veritas volume manager administrators guide thesoftwaredescribedinthisbookisfurnishedunderalicenseagreementandmaybeused only in accordance with the terms of the. The compilation is most accurate and have been compiled from live server use. Veritas offers the veritas volume manager vxvm, which is either. Sun mpxio solaris 10, 11 yes yes yes microsoft mpio 2008 windows 2008 yes no no vmware nmp na esx 5. 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. Symantec storage foundation and high availability solutions 6. Veritas volume manager on solaris 10 x86 user4994457 oct 9, 2009 4.
Sd sd sd sd sd sd sd sd sd subdisk vxvm allows each column of a raid5 plex to consist of a different number of subdisks. It is a strong replacement for suns previous products sun volume manager and ufs, but its design and immaturity still make it a less than ideal fit for enterprise deployment. However on the symantec site i see veritas foundation basic, server, etc but did not see veritas volume manager. Adding disk device device name to disk group disk group name with disk name disk name. Not specifying a block size allow veritas to dynamically assign one for you based upon the size of the volume. Storage foundation vxvm with suns traffic manager mpxio on 3rd party storage arrays is not supported by symantec. Package package description vrtsvlic veritas licensing vrtsperl veritas perl 5.
Top 10 free linux distributions for desktop and servers. The licensed software and documentation are deemed to be commercial computer software and commercial computer software documentation as defined in far sections 12. Apr 02, 2014 vxdisksetup command brings the disks in to veritas volume manager control. How to resize mirror volume in veritas volume manager 3. During the tests, sybase sysmon, veritas volume manager, veritas quick io, and general unix io statistics were collected, in addition to the. Dedicated in providing quality education to it professionals sun solaris, ibm aix, redhat, veritas volume manager, veritas cluster services, oracle sql plsql, oracle dba, shell scripting and pearl. A modified version is bundled with hpux as its builtin volume manager. Physical disks its a physical disk or lun from storage.
So i would like to know if i upgrade to solaris 10 0606. Solaris 10 commad line guide adding new disk azizs blog. Beginners lesson veritas volume manager for solaris. Provisioning manager also supports aix logical volume manager lvm configurations with jfs, jfs2 file systems on aix 5. Dynamic lun expansion in veritas volume manager on solaris os. Hi all, i have created a vmware appliance with solaris 10 and veritas voulme manager 5. By default this will format the disk in cdscross data platform sharing.
These components provide the performance and reliability required by vcs. Jun 04, 2011 veritas volume manager is a storage management application by symantec, which allows you to manage physical disks as logical devices called volumes. Veritas storage foundation and sun solaris zfs vox. Volume manager supports devices larger than 1 tb prior to the version of storage foundation 5.
Use vxdisk o alldgs list to see if veritas has seen the disk. Jul 02, 2015 dynamic lun expansion in veritas volume manager on solaris os by ramdev published february 8, 2012 updated july 2, 2015 in under storage configuration section, we have already discussed many examples on how to expand a filesystem using the new storage luns allocated to a server. Veritas volume manager on linux unixed solaris and. It offers volume management and multipath io functionalities when. Unix systems administration, netbackup, solaris, hpux, veritas volume manager system administrator 8 years of experiencabout me javeid choudhry about the technical knowledge i have on linux. Veritas volume manager administrators guide solaris 5. The a5000 disc enclosure series named photon had a vxvm license attached to it. Students are introduced to the installation, initialization, and configuration of vxvm and to general performance issues. Vxvm uses two types of objects to perform the storage management 1. Hello friends, i need to test some of the solaris 10 concepts and veritas volume manager. Veritas volume manager on solaris 10x86 user4994457 oct 9, 2009 4. I have experience in working on both the problem and change management environment.
Support for sun solaris internet protocol multipathing ipmp veritas provisioning manager supports ip networking multipathing ipmp. This can be used for practicing various volume manager commands for. For information on setting up vxvm disk groups and volumes after installation, see. The veritas volume manager vvm or vxvm is a proprietary logical volume manager from veritas which was part of symantec until january 2016. The 1touch server must be a dedicated solaris machine running the jumpstart server environment. Vm volume manager viom veritas infoscale operations manager. Solaris zfs is a new file system with an integrated volume manager that was released with update 2 of solaris 10 in mid2006. Veritas volume manager administrators guide oracle docs. Veritas file system vxfs veritas cluster file system vxcfs zettabyte file system zfs extended attributes in the vxfs, ufs, and zfs file systems.
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