XVM Volume Manager Administrator's Guide
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XVM Volume Manager Administrator's Guide

Document Number: 007-4003-013

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1. Introduction to the XVM Volume Manager

XVM Volume Manager Features
XVM Logical Volume Device Directories
Partition Layout under XVM
Composition of XVM Logical Volumes
Writing Data to Logical Volumes
XVM Logical Volumes in a CXFS Cluster
XVM Logical Volumes and Failover
Installing the XVM Logical Volume Manager under IRIX

2. XVM Administration Concepts

XVM Objects
XVM Domains
Physical Disk Administration
Creating Logical Resources
Managing Logical Resources
Destroying Logical Resources

3. The XVM Command Line Interface

Using the XVM CLI
Online Help for XVM CLI Commands
XVM CLI Syntax
Object Names in XVM
XVM Device Directories and Pathnames
Command Output and Redirection
Safe Versus Unsafe Commands

4. XVM Administration Commands

Physical Volume Commands
Logical Volume Commands
XVM System Disks
The XVM Snapshot Feature

5. XVM Administration Procedures

Before you Begin
Creating a Logical Volume with a Three-Way Stripe
Striping a Portion of a Disk
Creating a Logical Volume with a Data and Log Subvolume
Creating a Logical Volume with a Data, Log, and Real-time Subvolume
Creating a Volume from the Top Down
Creating an XVM Logical Volume with Striped Mirrors
Creating and Mirroring an XVM System Disk
Configuring a swap Volume with a Concat
Online Reconfiguration Using Mirroring
Online Modification of a Logical Volume

6. Statistics

Physical Volume Statistics
Subvolume Statistics
Stripe Statistics
Concat Statistics
Mirror Statistic
Slice Statistics

7. XVM Volume Manager Operation

Cluster System Startup
Mirror Revives
Mirror Revives on Recovery in a Cluster
XVM Mirror Revive Resources
XVM Subsystem Parameters

8. The XVM Manager GUI

Installing the XVM Manager GUI
Starting the XVM Manager GUI
The XVM Manager GUI Window
Configuring the System
Selecting Items to View or Modify
Configuring the System Quickly
Analyzing I/O Performance
Using Drag-and-Drop for XVM Configuration
Viewing Log Messages
Important GUI and CLI Differences
Disks Tasks
Volume Element Tasks

A. XVM and XLV Logical Volumes

XVM and XLV Logical Volume Creation Comparison
Upgrading from XLV to XVM Logical Volumes
Converting XLV Mirrored Stripes to XVM Striped Mirrors

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