Welcome to the VxMake tutorial. At this point it
is assumed that you've worked through the previous two
courses. At this point you should have a good grasp what
the different type of Veritas objects are, how they work
together, and the different classes of RAID. With this
understood, lets jump into it.
The title of this section is titled after the
exclamation I've screamed several times after having
done the "impossible". That being described as
something that everything and everyone else told me
was impossible, and suddenly I made it work. More
often than not this happens for me with Veritas.
Because of peoples poor understanding of Veritas and
her tools they have little faith in her mystical ways,
and redeeming qualities and features. In the course we'll
look at how to build real volumes. I've created several
Vx volumes from scratch on a test system I have and
documented EVERYTHING. We'll walk step by step through these
examples to illustrate for you. We're going to do everything
together, not like other Veritas volumes that just leave
pieces out. You'll see what I saw when I created objects.
This should also serve as a good reference until you get
to a mid- to advanced Veritas user; at which point you will
have all this memorized frontwards and backwards. But first
lets talk about....