Veritas Volume Manager Support

Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation*

The following set of commands enables a Fusion-io ioDrive to be recognized and used by the Veritas Volume Manager.

1. Enable the ioDrive on Veritas

vxddladm -f addforeign path=/dev/vx/dmp/fioa
vxdctl -f enable
vxdisk -f scandisks
vxdisk scandisks device=fioa
vxdisk init fioa
vxdg init vx_group cds=off fioa=fioa

2. Create a Volume and Other Tasks

Here are the tasks for creating a volume and file system.

a. Add space from your ioDrive to the vx_group group. For instance, to add 70 GB from fioa to the vx_group, use this command:

vxmake -g vx_group sd fioa-sub fioa,0,70g

b. Create a plex.

vxmake -g vx_group plex vx_plex sd=fioa-sub

c. Create a volume and associate the plex with it.

vxmake -g vx_group vol vx_vol plex=vx_plex

d. Start the volume.

vxvol -g vx_group start vx_vol

e. Display the results

vxprint

f. Create a file system if desired.

mkfs.ext3 /dev/vx/dsk/vx_group/vx_vol

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