My summary of common CLI commands for Veritas Volume Manager

As a high-end system-level disk/storage array solution, the Veritas VM is powerful and commands a lot. This article summarizes some of the CLI commands commonly used in the maintenance process to make it easy to use.

Resources:

1. VERITAS Volume Manager Command line Interface Administrator ' s Guide

2. Veritas Volume Manager Quick Start Classic tutorial

Common commands:

#Vxdisk管理字符驱动工具

Vxdiskadm

#查看存在的卷管理对象信息

Vxprint [-G <diskgroup>] [-hrt]

#列出所有磁盘

Vxdisk List

#查看某个diskgroup可用的空间

Vxdg-g <diskgroup> Free

#创建简单卷

Vxassist-g <diskgroup> u <usagetype> make <volume> <size>

Usagetype=fsgen (general); Gen (bare device)

#创建RAID0卷

Vxassist-g <diskgroup> u <usagetype> make <volume> <size> layout=<layouttype> stwidth=& lt;width> ncolumn=<#> <disk1> <disk2> <disk3> ...

Layouttype=stripe

stwidth,ncolumn,disk# can be omitted

#创建RAID1卷

Vxassist-g <diskgroup> u <usagetype> make <volume> <size> layout=<layouttype> nmirror=& Lt;#> <disk1> <disk2> <disk3>, ....

Layouttype=mirror-concat

Nmirror can be omitted, the default creation of 2 mirrors (including their own), disk# can be omitted

#为已有卷添加一个镜像

Vxassist-g <diskgroup> Mirror <volume>

#创建RAID0 + 1 Rolls

Vxassist-g <diskgroup> u <usagetype> make <volume> <size> layout=<layouttype> stwidth=& lt;width> ncolumn=<#> nmirror=<#> <disk1> <disk2> <disk3> ...

Layouttype=mirror-stripe

stwidth,ncolumn,nmirror,disk# can be omitted

#创建RAID5卷

Vxassist-g <diskgroup> u <usagetype> make <volume> <size> layout=<layouttype> <disk1 > <disk2> <disk3>, ....

Layout=raid5

#查看卷可扩最大容量

Vxassist-g <diskgroup> maxgrow <volume> [<disk1> <disk2> <disk3> ...]

disk# can be omitted;
List disk indicates the maximum capacity that can be reached only on the listed disk;
Not listed indicates the maximum capacity that can be achieved by occupying all the remaining space on the DiskGroup

#为volume增加/Reduced size

Vxassist-g <diskgroup> Growby/shrinkby <volume> <len_to_grow/shrink_by>

#将volume增加/reduce to a certain size

Vxassist-g <diskgroup> Growto/shrinkto <volume> <new_length>

(Continuous update)

My summary of common CLI commands for Veritas Volume Manager