How to find good information on LVM?

[Shaun Aldrich_1]

Hello Everyone,

I am looking at finding as much useful information as possible in the following areas:-

- Disk Mirroring
- JFS
- Striping disks
- Nike Arrays
- LVM

Anyone documents, books, white papers or anything else useful that someone could point me to would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[Victor BERRIDGE · Accepted solution]

Hi Shaun,
This is a good start for LVM:
http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/onlinedocs.py?mpn=B2355-90672&service=hpux&path=../B2355-90672/00/00/28&title=HP-UX%20System%20Administration%20Tasks

Good reading
all the best
Victor

[Bill Hassell]

Also check out the book:

"Disk and File Management Tasks on HP-UX" (Hewlett-Packard Professional Books)
by Tom Madell

And bookmark: http://docs.hp.com

[Bruce Regittko_1]

Hi,

If it is possible for you, HP's Hands On with LVM course would cover all of your topics. Three days of building stuff with LVM, Mirror Disk, Base and Online JFS, etc. See www.hp.com/education for more information.

--Bruce

[Daniel Proulx]

In addition to the other good suggestions:

"Choosing the Right Disk Technology in a High Availability Environment" at url http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/ha/diskwp2.pdf

A link to this document in included in http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/ha/index.html

"HP JFS 3.3 and HP OnLineJFS 3.3 VERITAS File System 3.3 System Administrator's Guide (HP-UX 11.0, HP-UX 11i)" at url http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/pdf/B3929-90011.pdf . You'll find in this one a lot of details about the various VxFS (JFS) disk layouts and features. Most information found in this document is also valid for HP-UX 10.20.

"HP JFS 3.3 Access Control Lists (HP-UX 11.0)" at url http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/os/jfs_acl.pdf

"HP-UX Large Files White Paper Version 1.4 (HP-UX 10.x, HP-UX 11.0)" at url http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/os/lgfiles4.pdf

Links for the last 3 documents can be found in this page:
http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/os/11.0/index.html

Regarding JFS, you may also want to have a look at Veritas' Web site. HP licensed their JFS product from Veritas.

Daniel.