Creating Vxvm Volumes - Hitachi XP P9500 User Manual

3 Create a disk group by referring to the VxVM documentation.
.
An HDLM device can be added to VxVM as a disk of the sliced type or
the cdsdisk type.
Note
4 If you are using Sun Cluster, register the created disk group into a Sun
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Cluster disk device group.
For details, see

Creating VxVM Volumes

A VxVM volume can be created by using the vxassist (or vxmake) command
or Veritas Enterprise Administrator. For details, refer to the VxVM
documentation.
Note
If you have created a volume for a disk group registered in Sun Cluster,
register the change made to the VxVM disk group configuration into Sun
Cluster. For details, see
When creating a VxVM volume, a block device file and character device file
for accessing volumes will be created:
• Block device file
/dev/vx/dsk/disk-group-name/volume-name
• Character device file
/dev/vx/rdsk/disk-group-name/volume-name
When creating a file system, mounting a file system, or specifying the layout
of a database using a raw partition, use the device file appropriate to each
situation.
In the following example, the commands create and mount a file system.
# newfs /dev/vx/rdsk/dlmdg/vol01
# mount /dev/vx/dsk/dlmdg/vol01 /mnt
displayed for HDevName of the dlnkmgr command's view -path
operation), and if STATE is ENABLED. Therefore, non-HDLM devices
must be removed from VxVM management. To remove non- HDLM
devices from VxVM management, see
on a Controller Basis on page 3-142
on a Path Basis on page 3-146
page 3-140. To apply the settings performed in procedure (2) or (3)
in Removing Devices from VxVM on page
Do not add an HDLM device to a disk group registered as bootdg.
Also, do not register a disk group containing an HDLM device in
bootdg.
Linking VxVM and Sun Cluster on page
Creating an HDLM Environment
Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager User Guide (for Solaris(R))
Removing Devices from VxVM
or Removing Devices From VxVM
of Removing Devices from VxVM on
Linking VxVM and Sun Cluster on page
3-140, restart the host.
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