Introducing VERITAS foundation suite for AIX / [Anita Govindjee ... et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Govindjee, Anita.

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

IBM redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Database management.

Computer storage devices.

AIX (Computer file).

Physical Description:

xxii, 354 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[United States?] : IBM, International Technical Support Organization, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Figures

Tables

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

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Comments welcome

Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1 What is VERITAS Foundation Suite for AIX

1.1.1 Additional VERITAS products on AIX 5L Version 5.1

1.1.2 Other supported platforms of VERITAS Foundation Suite

1.1.3 VERITAS NetBackup on AIX

1.2 IBM-VERITAS relationship

1.2.1 History of VERITAS

1.2.2 Joint agreements, offerings, and activities

1.2.3 VERITAS programs focused on interoperability

1.3 VERITAS Foundation Suite on the AIX Bonus Pack

1.4 Why use VERITAS Foundation Suite on AIX

1.5 Support for LVM and JFS for AIX

Chapter 2. Components

2.1 Overview

2.1.1 VERITAS Volume Manager overview

2.1.2 VERITAS File System overview

2.1.3 VERITAS Enterprise Administrator overview

2.2 VERITAS Volume Manager

2.2.1 Features

2.2.2 Physical objects

2.2.3 Device discovery

2.2.4 Enclosure-based naming

2.2.5 Virtual objects

2.2.6 Volume layouts

2.2.7 Layered volumes

2.2.8 Online relayout

2.2.9 Hot relocation

2.2.10 Dirty Region Logging (DRL)

2.3 VERITAS File System

2.3.1 Features

2.3.2 Disk layout

2.3.3 Extent-based allocation

2.3.4 Inodes

2.3.5 Caching

2.3.6 Journaling

2.3.7 Online file system resizing

2.3.8 Online defragmentation

Chapter 3. Planning and installation

3.1 Pre-installation planning

3.1.1 Hardware requirements

3.1.2 Operating system and software requirements

3.1.3 File system space

3.1.4 Licensing

3.1.5 Selecting disks for use in VxVM

3.2 Installation

3.2.1 Installation using VRTSinstall

3.2.2 Installation using SMIT

3.2.3 Installation using installp

3.3 Post-installation tasks

3.3.1 Installing product licenses

3.3.2 Initializing VERITAS Volume Manager.

3.3.3 Post-installation verification

3.3.4 Uninstalling VxFS and VxVM

Chapter 4. Basic administration

4.1 System startup and process control

4.1.1 Startup process

4.1.2 Managing processes

4.2 Methods of administration

4.2.1 Command-line interface

4.2.2 VEA Java GUI

4.2.3 VERITAS supplied utilities

4.2.4 Using SMIT

4.3 Basic administration tasks

4.3.1 Adding disks

4.3.2 Creating disk groups

4.3.3 Creating volumes

4.3.4 Viewing VxVM object information

4.3.5 Creating file systems

4.3.6 Mounting file systems

4.3.7 Resizing file systems

4.3.8 Monitoring for failures

Chapter 5. Advanced administration

5.1 Dynamic multipathing

5.2 Volume administration

5.2.1 Monitoring tasks

5.2.2 Creating volumes using vxmake

5.2.3 Adding a mirror to a volume

5.2.4 Removing a mirror from a volume

5.2.5 Adding a log to a volume

5.2.6 Creating layered volumes

5.2.7 Changing volume layouts

5.2.8 Renaming volumes

5.2.9 Removing volumes

5.3 Disk group administration

5.3.1 Adding and removing disks from disk groups

5.3.2 Removing disk groups

5.3.3 Deporting and importing disk groups

5.4 Backups and restores

5.4.1 File system snapshots

5.4.2 Volume snapshots

5.4.3 Split mirror backups

5.4.4 Using vxdump and vxrestore

5.5 Problem prevention and resolution

5.5.1 Hot relocation

5.5.2 Hot sparing

5.5.3 Evacuating volumes from a disk

5.5.4 Replacing or removing disks

5.6 File system administration

5.6.1 Setting block and intent log size

5.6.2 Quotas

5.6.3 Defragmenting file systems

5.6.4 Optionally licensable features

Chapter 6. Comparisons

6.1 Comparisons with other UNIX platforms

6.1.1 ODM and SMIT integration

6.1.2 Disk devices and the VxVM

6.1.3 VxVM and LVM co-existence

6.1.4 VxVM at system startup and shutdown.

6.1.5 VxVM/VxFS command differences

6.1.6 VxVM/VxFS device drivers and kernel extensions

6.1.7 Installation and packaging

6.1.8 The 64-bit kernel

6.1.9 Debugging information

6.1.10 Dynamic MultiPathing (VxDMP)

6.2 AIX LVM, JFS/JFS2 and VxVM, VxFS compared

6.2.1 Logical volume concepts

6.2.2 Volume layouts

6.2.3 Backup

6.2.4 Hot spare management

6.2.5 JFS/JFS2 and VxFS comparison

Chapter 7. Migration considerations

7.1 Reasons for migration

7.2 Planning for migration

7.2.1 Applications

7.2.2 Operating system considerations

7.3 Migration of VxVM and VxFS on Solaris to AIX

7.3.1 Test environment configuration

7.3.2 Cloning volume layouts

7.3.3 File system recreation

7.3.4 Tape backup and recovery

7.3.5 Using network facilities

7.3.6 Deport/import of VxVM disk groups

7.3.7 Using VERITAS Volume Replicator (VVR)

7.4 Migration from AIX LVM to VxVM

7.4.1 Test environment configuration

7.4.2 Converting LVM volume groups to VxVM disk groups

7.4.3 Manual migration of LVM and JFS to VxVM and VxFS

7.5 Other migration scenarios

7.5.1 Single platform migration

7.5.2 Migration of a UNIX File system (UFS) to VxFS on AIX

7.6 Summary and recommendations

Chapter 8. Performance, tuning, and scalability

8.1 Basic performance guidelines for VxVM and VxFS

8.1.1 Physical disks and data assignment

8.1.2 VxVM logs

8.1.3 Extent-based allocation

8.1.4 Inode and directory optimizations

8.1.5 VxFS create options

8.1.6 Mount command options

8.2 Monitoring VxVM and VxFS

8.2.1 vxstat and vxtrace

8.3 Tuning

8.3.1 VxVM global parameters

8.3.2 VxFS global parameters

8.3.3 Self tuning file systems

8.3.4 File system tuning parameters

8.4 Application interface support

8.4.1 Cache advisories

8.4.2 Other programatic advisories.

8.5 Scalability

8.5.1 Architectural scalability

8.5.2 Administrative scalability

8.5.3 Scaling services

Chapter 9. Troubleshooting and technical support

9.1 How to get patches

9.1.1 How to get patches from VERITAS

9.1.2 How to get patches from IBM

9.2 How to get technical support

9.2.1 How to get technical support from VERITAS

9.2.2 How to get technical support from IBM

9.3 Installation issues

9.3.1 VERITAS patches

9.3.2 IBM APARs

9.3.3 Possible installation issues

9.4 Administration issues

9.5 References for troubleshooting

Appendix A. LVM and VxVM command comparison tables

Appendix B. JFS/JFS2 and VxFS command comparison tables

Appendix C. Sample installation scripts

Appendix D. The VERITAS Cluster Server for AIX

Executive overview

Components of a VERITAS cluster

Cluster resources

Cluster configurations

Cluster communication

Cluster installation and setup

Cluster administration facilities

HACMP and VERITAS Cluster Server compared

Components of an HACMP cluster

Cluster communications

HACMP and VERITAS Cluster Server feature comparison summary

Abbreviations and acronyms

Related publications

IBM Redbooks

Other resources

Referenced Web sites

How to get IBM Redbooks

IBM Redbooks collections

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

"October 2002."

"SG24-6619-00."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

560313228