When a system encounters a problem with a volume or a plex, or if Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) has any reason to believe that the data is not synchronized, VxVM changes the kernel state, KSTATE and state, STATE, of the volume and its plexes accordingly. The plex state can be stale, empty, nodevice, etc.
What can be displayed in the vxprintutility?
Note 1: The vxprintutility can display disk group, disk media, volume, plex, subdisk/subvolume, data change object (DCO), link object and snap object records. It cannot display disk access records. Use the vxdisk listoperation to display disk access records, or physical disk information.
How to determine the disk size using vxdisk command?
Now we will see how to determine the disk size using vxdisk command.Even though we have many options in OS level to determined that.But let see from veritas level.Once the disk has been brought to veritas control ,VXVM will automatically make public and private region on the disk.By calculating the public region size can determine the disk size.
What is the private region size in VxVM?
For your information private region size will be always 32MB from VXVM 4.0 on-wards unless until you manually set it while doing vxdisksetup . Here we go …
Are the volume test and the Plex test-01 enabled active?
This output shows that the volume test and its plex test-01 are both ENABLED ACTIVE: Mount the volume to its associated mount point (refer to the /etc/vfstab file if the mount point location is not known) if the file system is a Veritas File System (VxFS) file system:
What is the vxdctlutility used for?
The vxdctlutility manages aspects of the state of the volume configuration daemon, vxconfigd, sets the default disk group for the system, and also sets up the boot disk group if the root disk is under Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) control. The volbootfile forms a key element in managing the state of vxconfigdand importing the boot disk group.
How do I know if my VxVM license is enabled?
Note If only a Base VxVM license is installed, the vxdctl licensecommand displays “DMP (single path enabled)”. If either the Full VxVM license or an automatically generated license (such as that for the PHOTON array) is installed, the command displays “DMP (multipath enabled)”.
