The Cuddletech Veritas Volume Manager Series

Advanced Veritas Theory

Ben Rockwood

CDLTK
Cuddletech

benr@cuddletech.com

Revision History
Revision v1.0	Auguest 10th 2002	Revised by: br
Initial conversion to DocBook

VxVM 3.x adds the powerful capability to create "layered volumes", the ability to create a volume inside a volume. Sadly, practical coverage of creating such volumes has been sparse. In this tutorial we discuse the topic at length and walk thru several examples of creating layered volumes from start to finish.

Table of Contents
1. Welcome to the Real World
2. Mirroring
3. Mirror Juggling
4. Spares, Hot Relocation, and Disk Reservation
5. Dirty Region Logging (aka: DRL)
6. Dynamic Multi Pathing (aka: DMP)
7. Unencapsulating Your Root Disk
8. A Brief Discussion of VxFS
9. Auto/Online Relayout

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