VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide

Creating Volumes

Creating a Volume on Speciﬁc Disks

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formed from disks disk05 through disk08. This arrangement is

illustrated in Figure 7-3, “Example of Using Concatenated Disk Space to

Create a Mirrored-Stripe Volume,”

Figure 7-3 Example of Using Concatenated Disk Space to Create a

Mirrored-Stripe Volume

Other storage speciﬁcation classes for controllers, enclosures, targets

and trays can be used with ordered allocation. For example, the following

command creates a 3-column mirrored-stripe volume between speciﬁed

controllers:

# vxassist -b -o ordered make mirstr2vol 80g

layout=mirror-stripe ncol=3 ctlr:c1 ctlr:c2 ctlr:c3 ctlr:c4

ctlr:c5 ctlr:c6

Mirrored-Stripe Volume

Striped Plex

Mirror

Column 1

Column 2

disk01-01

disk02-01

disk05-01

disk06-01

disk03-01

disk04-01

disk07-01

disk08-01