topic Re: Vertitas Volume manager in Operating System - HP-UX

Vertitas Volume manager

Lacrosse — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:33:22 GMT

Which is the correct version for HPUX 11i volume manager 3.1 or 3.5 or I guess I should ask is 3.5 supported also I have seen quotes for Tier 2 on a rp7410 and Tier 2B which is correct.
One more question on HPUX 11.0 you could not stripe and mirror with HP's built in version of Volume manager but you could with Veritas's version. Is this feature added in HPUX 11i ....Many thanks

Re: Vertitas Volume manager

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:50:29 GMT

The base Veritas Volume Manager 3.5 is the first vxvm product that supports creating boot disks.

It even lets you mirror the root vg without buying extra software like you do in LVM. You can not however mirror anything else with the base product.

My information is 11i only. I'm not sure what the feature set is on 11.00

SEP

Re: Vertitas Volume manager

Lacrosse — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:57:27 GMT

yes but can you mirror and stripe with the built in veritas volume manger on HPUX 11i
Also is it version 3.5

Re: Vertitas Volume manager

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 17:03:27 GMT

This doc answers the question:
http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/5187-2216/5187-2216_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/5187-2216/00/00/53-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/5187-2216/00/00/53-toc.html&searchterms=3.5%7cconfiguration%7cstripe%7cmirror%7cvxvm&queryid=20031113-150203

I'm not going to answer for myself because I simply haven't used the product very much.

SEP

Re: Vertitas Volume manager

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 17:31:46 GMT

No points please.

This link is inside the above link and the one I meant to post.

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/onlinedocs.py?mpn=5187-1369&service=hpux&path=00/00/1&title=VERITAS%20Volume%20Manager%203.5%20Administrator%27s%20Guide

SEP

Re: Vertitas Volume manager

Michael Steele_2 — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:23:13 GMT

That's right. No more points for SEP. (* He's already got too many. *)

But he's provided the correct information in his three responses. (* somewhere *)

One would have been enough.

Re: Vertitas Volume manager

Bill Hassell — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:29:13 GMT

11.11 is the first version of VxVM that comes with HP-UX. Although an earlier version of VxVM is available for 11.0, it must be purchased from Veritas and not available from HP.

Re: Vertitas Volume manager

Lacrosse — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 08:47:51 GMT

Thanks for all the help and the manual was useful but it is still not clear, can anyone answer the question can you stripe and mirror with the version that comes with HPUX....... YES NO ....... or do I need to purchase volume manager to do this
Thanks

Re: Vertitas Volume manager

Lacrosse — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:07:57 GMT

I see in the Veritas 3.5 manual where you can do a stripped mirror I guess my question now would be is this the version that comes with HPUX 11i????

Re: Vertitas Volume manager

Leif Halvarsson_2 — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:17:33 GMT

Hi,

It seems as, in the basic version, only striping and concatenation is included. For mirroring, RAID etc. you must buy the full version:
http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B7961-90016/B7961-90016.html

More documentation:

http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B7961-90018/B7961-90018.html

Re: Vertitas Volume manager

Daxa Patel — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:18:01 GMT

You want to take a look at :
http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/5187-1369/5187-1369.html

Veritas Volume Manager 3.5 Admin Guide Section on "Creating a striped volume "

Re: Vertitas Volume manager

Lacrosse — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:37:39 GMT

So the answer is you cannot stripe and mirror with the version of Vertita that comes with HPUX 11i .....correct???

Re: Vertitas Volume manager

Leif Halvarsson_2 — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:52:53 GMT

Hi,
If I understand the Release Notes correct you can do striping with the base product but for mirroring you need the B9116AA (which requires a codeword and is not free)

CPL Product: B9116AA
Codeword Req.: Yes
Size: 2457
Description: HP VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1

Re: Vertitas Volume manager

Daxa Patel — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:54:25 GMT

As of the Sept 02 release of the 11i OE you will have Base VxVM 3.5 bundled in .

Prior Releases of 11i OE will have Base VxVM 3.2 / VxVM 3.1 de pending on the release of OE .

In order to create "mirrored striped volume" or a "striped mirror volume" you will need to purchase a license for the Full Veritas Volume Manager Product .