Veritas volume and filesystem commands
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| Command | Common Arguments & Description | Command Description |
|---|---|---|
| vxassist | -g appdg maxsize (Reports the maximum size a volume in the diskgroup appdg could be created with, and therefore how much disk space is left in the diskgroup, given the free storage available) | Reports how much space is left in the diskgroup |
| vxassist | -g appdg maxgrow appvol (Reports how big the volume appvol can get (current size + available space) by utilizing any free space in the disk group appdg. (The reported Mb figure in brackets is the max size the volume can grow to) | Reports the maximum growth of a volume in a diskgroup |
| vxconfigd | -k (Kills the vxconfigd daemon, useful for recovering from a hung vxconfigd process) | Volume Manager configuration daemon |
| vxdg | deport appdg (Disables the disk group appdg but does not remove it) | Disable a disk group |
| vxdg | import appdg (Reverse of vxdg deport - Enables local access to diskgroup appdg) | Enable a disk group |
| vxdisk | list (Display detailed disk information for all disk access records known to the system) | Perform basic admin operations on Volume Manager disks |
| vxdisk | list SAN_VC0_1 (Display hostid, disk, group, pubpaths, udid, mutipathing info etc for daname "SAN_VC0_1" (daname found from vxdisk path). Also match udid with vdisk_UID from "svcinfo lshostvdiskmap" SVC command to find associated SVC vdisk) | Perform basic admin operations on Volume Manager disks |
| vxdisk | path (Display paths to a disk) | Show multipathing information for metadevices |
| vxdisk | rm san_vc4 (Remove the disk san_vc4 (disk name is the device name found from "vxdisk list")) | Remove the specified disk access records, by disk access name |
| vxdisk | scandisks new (Discovers new disks not known to VxVM) | Initiates rescanning of devices in the OS device tree by VxVM |
| vxdiskadm | path (Interactively performs tasks such as add or initialise disks, remove disks, mirror volumes on a disk, enable access to (import) a disk group etc) | Menu-driven Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) disk administrator |
| vxdmpadm | disable path=c3t5015078801405179d1s2 (Disable I/O on a specified path) | Interface to the Dynamic Multipathing (DMP) facility |
| vxdmpadm | enable path=c3t5015078801405179d1s2 (Enable I/O on a previously disabled path) | Interface to the Dynamic Multipathing (DMP) facility |
| vxeeprom | devalias (List existing devalias lines) | Manipulate nvramrc variables stored in the solaris EEPROM for Veritas Volume Manager |
| vxprint | (No arguments - Displays type, name, assoc, kstate etc for all active (imported) disk groups) | Display records from the Volume Manager configuration |
| vxprint | -AQqdF "%publen" | awk 'BEGIN {s = 0} {s += $1} END {print s/2097152, "GB"}' (Displays the total amount of disk space (free + used) for all the disk groups) | Display the total amount of disk space for all disk groups |
| vxprint | -g appdg -dF "%publen" | awk 'BEGIN {s = 0} {s += $1} END {print s/2097152, "GB"}' (Displays the total amount of disk space (free + used) in the disk group appdg) | Display the total amount of disk space in a disk group |
| vxprint | -l appdg01 | grep publen | awk -F= '{print $2}'| awk '{print $1/2097152, "GB"}' (Displays the size of the veritas disk appdg01 (the disk is found using vxdisk list)) | Display the size of a veritas disk |
| vxresize | -g appdg vol1 +10g (Grows the volume vol1 in the appdg disk group by 10GB) | Grow or shrink a filesystem and the underlying volume |
| vxvol | -g appdg startall (Attempt to start all disabled volumes in disk group appdg) | Attempt to start all volumes that are disabled |
| vxvol | -g appdg stopall (Attempt to stop all enabled volumes in disk group appdg) | Attempt to stop all volumes that are enabled |