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d. Subdisks are actual disk space segments of VxVM disk ( directly mapped
from the physical disks)
An initialized disk is placed into the VxVM free disk pool. The VxVM free disk
pool contains disks that have been initialized but that have not yet been
assigned to a disk group. These disks are under Volume Manager control but
cannot be used by Volume Manager until they are added to a disk group
1. Run the below command to see the available disks under VxVM control
# vxdisk list
error indicates that the disk has neither been initialized nor encapsulated by
VxVM. The disk is uninitialized.
online invalid indicated that disk is visible to VxVM but not controlled by
VxVM
If disks are visible with format command but not visible with vxdisk list
command, run below command to scan the new disks for VxVM
# vxdctl enable
Now you should see new disks with the status of Online Invalid
#/etc/vx/bin/vxdisksetup -i
after running this command vxdisk list should see the status as online for
all the newly initialized disks
Disk Groups
A disk group is a collection of VxVM disks ( going forward we will call them as
VM Disks ) that share a common configuration. Disk groups allow you to
group disks into logical group of Subdisks called plexes which in turn forms
the volumes.
Volumes
Plexes:
VxVM uses subdisks to create virtual objects called plexes. A plex consists of
one or more subdisks located on one or more physical disks.
Striped_vol is a striped volume with single plex i.e. stripe_plex01 inside, and
stripe_plex01 was build up using 4 subdisks of same size
Below diagram shows you the complete transformation of a physical disk into
a veritas volume. And below is the summary of complete process
6. Create filesystem on top of volumes using mkfs or newfs, and you can
create either VXFS filesystem or UFS filesystem