Maintenance Tasks

After you have set up your disks and volumes, you need to perform some or all of the following maintenance tasks.

Use the “Main Window ” tree (left pane) and grid (right pane) to view disks, volumes, file systems, and other objects on the system.
Use the “Disk View Window ” to display a graphical view of disks, volumes, and other objects in a particular disk group.
Use the Volume View Window to display a graphical view of the volumes for a host.
Use the “Volume to Disk Mapping Window ” to view the relationships between volumes and their underlying disks.
Use the “Object Properties Window ” to view detailed information about a selected object.
Use the Alert Tab to view information about errors or failures associated with objects that are marked with alert icons.

(Windows are described in Chapter 2 “Getting Started with VxVM VEA”, "Getting Started with VxVM.")

These tasks are described in Chapter 3 “Disk Tasks”




	NOTE: "Dynamic Disk Groups" were formerly known as "Disk Groups." They are still sometimes referred to as "Disk Groups" in menu displays and the CLI.

“Resizing a Dynamic Volume” as users and applications require more space.
“Changing a Volume Layout ”.
“Adding a Mirror to a Volume ” to any unmirrored volume that should be redundant.

These tasks are described in Chapter 4 “Volume Tasks”, "Volume Tasks."

These tasks are described in Chapter 6, "Cluster Tasks."

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