The Cuddletech Veritas Volume Manager Series

Volume Kreation: VxAssist & Ways to spend more time cuddling

Ben Rockwood

CDLTK
Cuddletech

 benr@cuddletech.com 

Revision History
Revision v1.0August 12th 2002Revised by: br
Initial conversion to DocBook
Revision v0.1August 12th 2002Revised by: br
First version of the course

VxAssist is a versital and easy tool for creating and manipulating Veritas Volume Manager volumes. This course is an introduction to the tool with numberous examples of it's usage, syntax, and indepth looks at the results.

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1.1. JUST DO IT ALREADY!!!
1.2. VxAssist: Why it's the Lazy Way
2. Volume Lessons Background
3. The Pregame Show: Disk Groups and vxdiskadd
4. Volume Lession1: No Frills Volumes
5. Volume Lesson 2: Striped Volumes
6. Volume Lesson 3: RAID1 and RAID0+1 Volumes
7. Volume Lesson 4: RAID5 Volumes
8. Volume Lesson 5: Volume resizing
9. The Wrap Up
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