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Veritas Command List

This document provides a quick reference for commands in Veritas Volume Manager. It lists commands for initializing and managing disks, disk groups, subdisks, plexes, volumes, mirroring the system disk, and monitoring and performance. Some key commands include vxdisksetup to initialize disks, vxdg to manage disk groups, vxassist to manage volumes, and vxstat/vxtrace to monitor performance.

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Veritas Command List

This document provides a quick reference for commands in Veritas Volume Manager. It lists commands for initializing and managing disks, disk groups, subdisks, plexes, volumes, mirroring the system disk, and monitoring and performance. Some key commands include vxdisksetup to initialize disks, vxdg to manage disk groups, vxassist to manage volumes, and vxstat/vxtrace to monitor performance.

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Veritas Volume Manager Command Quick Reference.

Disk Commands
Operation Command Example
Initialise disks vxdisksetup vxdisksetup -i c0t9d0
Un-initialise disks vxdiskunsetup vxdiskunsetup -C c0t9d0
Remove disk vxdisk vxdisk rm c1t0d0
Scan for ne disks
vxdctl
vxdisk
vxdctl ena!le
vxdisk scandisks

"ist disks vxdisk vxdisk list


"ist disk #eader vxdisk vxdisk list disk1
"ist disk private region vxprivutil list vxprivutil list /dev/rdsk/c1t9d0s2
Move data to anot#er disk vxevac vxevac $g my-dg old-disk new-disk
Reserve a disk vxedit vxedit -g my-dg set reserve%on my-disk
&isa!le relocation to

vxedit vxedit -g my-dg set no#otuse%on my-disk


Undo relocation

vxunreloc vxunreloc $g my_dg my_disk


Disk Group Commands
Operation Command Example
Create disk group vxdg init vxdg init my-dg disk01=c4t4d0
Remove disk group

vxdg destro' vxdg destro' my-dg


(dd disk vxdg adddisk vxdg -g my-dg adddisk disk02%c)t*d+
Remove disk vxdg rmdisk vxdg -g my-dg rmdisk disk02
Import disk group vxdg import vxdg import otherdg
&eport disk group vxdg deport vxdg deport my-dg
"ist disk groups vxdg list vxdg list
&ispa' disk group info, vxdg list vxdg list my-dg
"ist free space vxdg free vxdg -g my-dg free
Subdisk Commands
Operation Command Example
Create su!disk vxmake sd vxmake -g my-dg sd my-sd disk1,0,5000
Remove su!disk vxedit rm vxedit -g my-dg rm my-sd
&ispla' su!disk info, vxprint $st vxprint $st
(ssociate su!disk to plex vxsd assoc vxsd -g my-dg assoc my-ple my-sd
&isassociate su!disk vxsd dis vxsd -g my-dg dis my-sd
Move a su!disk, vxsd mv vxsd $g my-dg - $o rm . mv old-sd new-sd
Plex Commands
Operation Command Example
Create a plex vxmake vxmake -g my-dg plex my-ple sd%my-sd
(ssociate a plex vxplex vxplex -g my-dg att my-vol my-ple
&isassociate a plex, vxplex vxplex -g my-dg dis my-ple
(ttac# a plex vxplex vxplex -g my-dg att my-vol my-ple
&etac# a plex /remains associated0 vxplex vxplex -g my-dg det my-ple
"ist plexes vxprint vxprint $lp
Remove a plex vxedit vxedit -g my-dg rm my-ple
Veritas Volume Manager Command Quick Reference.
Volume Commands
Operation Command Example
Create a volume vxassist
vxassist -g my-dg make my-vol )1
vxassist make my-vol )1 la'out%stripe
&elete a volume vxedit vxedit -g my-dg -r rm my-vol
C#ange oner of volume vxedit vxedit $g my-dg set user%oracle my-vol
C#ange permissions of vol vxedit vxedit $g my-dg set mode%233 my-vol
&ispla' volume info
vxprint
vxinfo
vxprint -g my-dg $#rt my-vol
vxinfo -g my-dg my-vol
Resi4e a volume onl',
/does not resi4e file s'stem 0
vxassist
vxassist -g my-dg groto my-vol 51
vxassist -g my-dg gro!' my-vol 2++M
Resi4e volume 6 file s'stem vxresi4e vxresi4e $g my_dg my_vol new_si!e
Start a volume vxvol vxvol -g my-dg start my-vol
Stop a volume vxvol vxvol -g my-dg stop my-vol
Initialise a volume vxvol vxvol -g my-dg init active my-vol
Recover a volume vxrecover vxrecover -g my-dg my-vol
Mirror a volume vxassist vxassist -g my-dg mirror my-vol
Remove mirror from volume vxassist vxassist $g my-dg remove mirror my-vol
(dd log to a volume vxassist vxassist -g my-dg addlog my-vol
Remove log from a volume vxassist vxassist $g my-dg remove log my-vol
Snaps#ot a volume vxassist
vxassist -g my-dg snapstart my-vol
vxassist -g my-dg snaps#ot my-vol my-sn"p
vxassist $g my-dg snap!ack my-vol my-sn"p

C#ange volume la'out

vxassist vxassist -g my-dg rela'out my-vol la'out%stripe


Convert volume t'pe

vxassist vxassist -g my-dg convert my-vol la'out%stripe-mirror


stripe-mirror & concat-mirror is RAID 1+

!mirror-stripe & mirror-concat is RAID +1
"irrorin# S$stem Disk
Operation Command Example
Initialise disk, vxdisksetup -i vxdisksetup -i c+t7d+
(dd disk to rootdg, vxdg adddisk vxdg adddisk rootmirror=c0t#d0
Create s'stem disk mirror, vxmirror vxmirror rootdisk rootmirror
Ena!le devalias in eeprom, vxeeprom vxeeprom ena!le
8oot from mirror disk, !oot !oot v-rootmirror /(t eeprom prompt0
S#o disk !ooted from, prtconf prtconf $vp 9 grep !ootpat#
Removing from VM, vxunroot vxunroot folloed !' a re!oot,
"onitorin# and Per%ormance
Operation Command Example
"ist running tasks vxtask vxtask $g my_sg list
:ause running task, vxtask vxtask $g my_dg pause t"skid
&ispla' volume statistics vxstat vxstat $g my-dg $c * $i )+ $v /-s%sd; -p%plex0
&ispla' volume operations vxtrace vxtrace $g m'-dg $c * $t <+ $o v /-s%sd; -p%plex0

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