Vertitas Volume manager

[Lacrosse]

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

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[Lacrosse]

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

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[Michael Steele_2]

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.

[Bill Hassell]

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.

[Lacrosse]

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

[Lacrosse]

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????

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

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

[Daxa Patel]

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 "

[Lacrosse]

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

[Leif Halvarsson_2 · Accepted solution]

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

[Daxa Patel]

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 .