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Troubleshooting SEVM/VxVM 3.x

Updated 29 May 2001 Read time 12 min(s) 16 sec(s) (969 visits).

This article is designed to walk you through common VxVM problems allowing you to troubleshoot them.

Updated 4 Dec 2019 Read time 9 min(s) 6 sec(s) (1551 visits).

This article is aimed at providing a list of basic and advanced command-line examples for Veritas Volume Manager.

Updated 16 Sep 2002 Read time 2 min(s) 16 sec(s) (2660 visits).

Veritas Volume Replicator aides in an effective maintain a consistent copy of application data at one or more remote locations via data-replication

Updated 26 May 2014 Read time 3 min(s) 1 sec (3031 visits).

The use of logical volumes is similar to the use of partitions and is accomplished with the same standard commands (mkfs, mount, fsck, df, ...)

Updated 26 May 2014 Read time 2 min(s) 52 sec(s) (2518 visits).

A volume group (vg) is an abstraction layer between block devices and logical volumes. The commands used to manage a volume group start with vg

Updated 26 May 2014 Read time 3 min(s) 7 sec(s) (2393 visits).

A physical volume (pv) is any block device (a disk, a partition, a RAID device, an iSCSI device, etc.)

Updated 12 Jul 2002 Read time 4 min(s) 41 sec(s) (2386 visits).

A collection of troubleshooting tps for the Veritas File System (VxFS).

Updated 23 Mar 2003 Read time 5 min(s) 6 sec(s) (2426 visits).

When in doubt consult enotify 43212 on SunSolve for latest patches

Updated 17 Jan 2005 Read time 42 sec(s) (2369 visits).

Did you know that it is also possible without a volume manager? You just have to know some special arguments to the mkfs command.

Updated 12 Jul 2002 Read time 3 min(s) 33 sec(s) (2622 visits).

This article is aimed a providing a list of basic commands for Veritas File System (VxFS).

Updated 12 Jul 2002 Read time 3 min(s) 54 sec(s) (2320 visits).

This article is aimed a providing a list of basic and advanced commands and common information for Veritas Volume Manager

Updated 15 Aug 2001 Read time 2 min(s) 58 sec(s) (2896 visits).

A rate occurrance where VxVM fails where we cannot import a diskgroup due to the Veritas configuration database become corrupt.

Updated 7 Feb 2005 Read time 52 sec(s) (2648 visits).

There are two way to change block size to get quickly synchronized disks in mirrored system

Updated 26 Jun 2002 Read time 1 min 51 sec(s) (2868 visits).

This post provides an example of how to remove VxVM from a Solaris root disk. The operating system is mirrored between the two devices.

Updated 19 Jun 2002 Read time 10 min(s) 41 sec(s) (3001 visits).

Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) is an implementation of disk management allowing for mirroring and raid to better manage and utilise your storage.