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Renaming Sun Cluster node names

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Sometime hostname need to be changed especially when your customer want to make some list of server more orderly and correctly identify your machine

VxVM 5.1 exit codes

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The majority of the VxVM utilities use a common set of exit codes, which allow programs to react to specific problems detected by the utilities.

Backup and Recover VxVM Disk Configuration

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How to backup Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) configuration for a disk group and use the backup to recover the disk group configuration

Growing a UFS filesystem on Solaris

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

Sun Storage T3 DMP Failover FAQ

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This FAQ should answer some of the basic questions on how failovers work on the StorEdge T3 array

Basic VERITAS Volume Replicator Commands

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

VxVM command line cheat sheet (part 2)

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

Veritas Volume Manager

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

Removing VxVM from a Solaris root disk

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

Basic VxVM Commands

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This post provides a list of basic Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) commands

Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) cheat sheet

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

Setting VxVM permissions on volumes

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Witihout using vxedit to change permissions VxVM device files go back to the defaults each time vxconfigd is enabled or the system rebooted.

Veritas Volume Manager state flowchart

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This diagram is derived from the Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) Performance and Tuning course notes. Additional state paths have been added.

Troubleshooting SEVM/VxVM 3.x

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