VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Storage Administrator Administrator's Guide

Volume Tasks
Creating a Volume
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When you have provided all necessary information in the dialog box,
Size: Type the volume size. The default size unit is sectors.
To specify a size unit, attach an s (sectors), k
(kilobytes), m (megabytes), or g (gigabytes) to the size.
To determine the largest possible size for the volume,
click Maxsize.
Layout: Choose Striped or Striped Pro for the volume layout.
In the Number of Columns field, specify the number of
columns (disks) across which the volume should be
striped. A striped volume requires at least two disks.
To specify a stripe unit size other than the default,
type the stripe unit size in the Stripe Unit Size field.
To specify a size unit, attach an s (sectors), k
(kilobytes), m (megabytes), or g (gigabytes) to the size.
Options • To mirror the volume, select Mirrored. In the Total
Number of Mirrors field, type the total number of
mirrors for the volume. (Note: Striped pro volumes
are mirrored by default.) To enable logging for a
mirrored volume, select Enable Logging.
• To stripe the volume across specific disks, click
Assign Disks and select the disks you want to use
from the Space Allocation dialog box.
• To place a file system on the volume, click Add File
System and specify the file system type and mount
point in the Add File System dialog box.
• To clear the volume before enabling it for general
use, select Initialize Zero.
• To prevent the creation of a layered volume, select
No Layered Volumes. In cases where a layered
volume layout is appropriate, the Volume Manager
can create a layered volume when a non-layered
layout is specified. This option ensures that the
volume has a non-layered layout. If a layered (Pro)
layout is selected, this option is ignored.
• To add a comment attribute for the volume, type
the information in the Comment field.