V E R I T A S E D U C A T I O N
Advanced VxVM Commands
SUBDISK OPERATIONS
Action
Create a subdisk
Remove a subdisk
Display subdisk information
Associate a subdisk to a plex
Dissociate a subdisk
PLEX AND VOLUME OPERATIONS
Action
Create a plex
Associate a plex (to a volume)
Unmirror a volume (remove a
plex)
Start/stop volumes
Start/stop all volumes
Recover a volume
Detach a plex
Attach a plex
Change state flags on plex
Turn plex online/offline
Set FastResync flag on a
volume
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Q U I C K R E F E R E N C E
BENCHMARKING OPERATIONS
Command Line Action Command Line
vxmake -g diskgroup sd subdisk_name Count and size of VxVM disk vxstat -g diskgroup [-i interval]
I/Os completed per sample
diskname offset length [-c count] –d vol_name
time slice to a volume
vxedit -g diskgroup rm subdisk_name
vxtrace -g diskgroup [–t duration]
vxprint –st VxVM I/O trace information—
–d [filename] –o dev,disk vol_name;
dump to file and read from file
vxprint -l subdisk_name vxtrace –l –f /tmp/tracedata | pg
vxsd assoc plex_name subdisk_name Sample I/O load with vxbench –w {read|write} –i
statistics—sequential iosize=size,iocount=count filename
vxsd dis subdisk_name
vxbench –w {rand_read|rand_write}
Sample I/O load with
–i iosize=size,iocount=count,
statistics—random
maxfilesize=size filename
Command Line
vxmake -g diskgroup plex plex_name
TUNING OPERATIONS
sd=subdisk_name,…
Action Command Line
vxplex –g diskgroup att vol_name
plex_name Example: View the current setting for the kernel
View currently set VxVM parameter vol_max_vol:
kernel parameters
vxplex –o rm dis plex_name
# echo ‘vol_max_vol/D’ | adb –k
vxvol {start|stop} vol_name Example: Change the VxVM kernel parameter
vxvol {startall|stopall} vol_max_vol from the current value to a new
Change VxVM kernel
value of 2048 by adding the parameter to the
vxrecover -sn vol_name /etc/system file:
parameters
vxplex –g diskgroup det plex_name # set vxio: vol_max_vol=2048
vxplex –g diskgroup att vol_name Then, reboot the system.
plex_name
vxmend fix {active|clean|stale}
plex_name
vxmend {on|off} plex_name
vxvol set fastresync=on vol_name
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