XVM Volume Manager Administrator's Guide describes the configuration and administration of XVM logical volumes using the XVM Volume Manager.
This guide contains the following information:
Chapter 1, “Introduction to the XVM Volume Manager”, describes the features of the XVM Volume Manager and provides an introduction to the components of an XVM logical volume. It also provides instructions for installing XVM as a standalone volume manager.
Chapter 2, “XVM Administration Concepts”, describes the concepts that underlie the administration commands.
Chapter 3, “The XVM Command Line Interface”, describes the operation of the XVM command line interface and the features it provides.
Chapter 4, “XVM Administration Commands”, summarizes the XVM commands and provides examples of each command. It also provides information about configuring XVM system disks and about the XVM snapshot feature.
Chapter 5, “XVM Failover”, provides an overview of failover configuration under XVM.
Chapter 6, “The XVM Snapshot Feature”, describes how to administer the XVM snapshot feature.
Chapter 7, “XVM Administration Procedures”, provides examples of many common XVM administration procedures.
Chapter 8, “Statistics”, provides examples of the statistics that XVM maintains for the components of XVM logical volumes.
Chapter 9, “XVM Volume Manager Operation”, describes various aspects of the way the XVM Volume Manager operates.
Chapter 10, “The XVM Manager GUI”, describes the installation and operation of the XVM Manager graphical user interface (GUI).
Appendix A, “XVM and XLV Logical Volumes”, provides a side-by-side comparison of XVM and XLV logical volume configuration and provides procedures for converting an existing XLV logical volume configuration to an XVM configuration.
The following documents may contain additional information required to use this product:
CXFS Administration Guide for SGI InfiniteStorage
CXFS MultiOS Client-Only Guide for SGI InfiniteStorage
SGI ProPack 6 for Linux Service Pack 4 Start Here
The following document contains additional information required to use this product under IRIX:
IRIX Admin: Disks and Filesystems
For information on installing a FLEXlm license under IRIX, see IRIX Admin: Software Installation and Licensing. For information on the new licensing mechanism called LK, see the SGI ProPack 6 for Linux Service Pack 4 Start Here.
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