vxassist will just pick one or more disks with available disk space until it has enough space to mirror the existing volume. You can give vxassist more guidance, but I think "man vxassist" or looking at the Volume Manager Administrators Guide can explain it better than I can. There are certainly other ways to do this, but vxassist is the recommended way, and frankly you are doing it the hard way if you go looking for a different way to do it. Have you tried looking at some of the documentation? These are really very basic questions that the documentation addresses fairly well. Take a look at the Volume Manager Administrators Guide, and/or the man page for vxassist (the Admin Guide is probably easier to understand).
-- John Cronin 678-480-6266 ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ajay raghuraj Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 3:15 PM To: VeritasUsers Subject: Re: [Veritas-vx] mirroring existing volume If I have more than one LUNs ..lets say if i have LUNs to mirror 5 volumes...will the command "vxassist -g <dg> -mirror <volname>" work? How does vxassist know what disk to choose ? Can I use vxmake to mirror the volume ? Regards, Ajay On 8/15/07, Cronin, John S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No need to make the subdisk and plex - just add the new disk to the diskgroup (vxdiskadm is the easiest way for a beginner). Then run "vxassist -g <dg> -mirror <volname>" -- John Cronin 678-480-6266 ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ajay raghuraj Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 1:21 PM To: veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-vx] mirroring existing volume Hi All, I created a volume consisting of a single plex and subdisk with vxassist. I am looking to mirror it now. The storage person has allocated me another disk of the same size . I intend to make a subdisk and plex and then attach it to the existing volume . Will this activity serve my purpose ? Please advise . The command I used to create the volume - vxassist -g <dg> make <volname> 30g <disk> Regards, Ajay ***** The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential, proprietary, and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from all computers. GA623 ***** The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential, proprietary, and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from all computers. GA621
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