Users' questions

How do I find the size of my Veritas disk?

How do I find the size of my Veritas disk?

How to check free space in DG in Veritas File System. vxdg command in the veritas file system will tell you to show you all disk technical details of all the disks in a specific disk group. DG must be in the mounted state. This output will be in block sizes which is difficult to understand.

How do I resize the volume in VxVM?

Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) provides the facility to resize both the size a VxVM managed disk and the size of a VxVM managed volume using the vxassist command. The VxVM volume and VxFS file system can also be increased in a single operation using the vxresize command.

How do I add a disk to Veritas disk group?

Select Add or initialize one or more disks from the vxdiskadm main menu. At the following prompt, enter the disk device name of the disk to be added to VxVM control (or enter list for a list of disks): Select disk devices to add: [,all,list,q,?]

Which command is used to resize VxFS filesystem only?

vxresize
vxresize works with VxFS file systems only. In some situations, when you resize large volumes, vxresize may take a long time to complete. If you resize a volume with a usage type other than FSGEN or RAID5, you can lose data. If such an operation is required, use the -f option to forcibly resize the volume.

How do I resize a Veritas File?

If the file system is mounted and VxFS, you can grow or shrink the size. If a VxFS file system is unmounted, you cannot grow or shrink the size. If the file system is mounted and UFS, you can grow the size only….

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How do I determine the volume of a VxVM?

How to check disk size in Linux

  1. fdisk command. # fdisk -l | grep Disk Disk /dev/sda doesn’t contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 146.7 GB, 146778685440 bytes.
  2. blockdev command. # blockdev –getsz /dev/sda 6291456 Below are the options available with blockdev command.
  3. multipath command.

How do I make a disk group?

Procedure

  1. Navigate to the vSAN cluster in the vSphere Client.
  2. Click the Configure tab.
  3. Under vSAN, click Disk Management.
  4. Under Disk Groups, select the disk group to recreate.
  5. Click …, then click the Recreate. The Recreate Disk Group dialog box appears.
  6. Select a data migration mode, and click Recreate.

How do I add volume to a disk group?

How to Add a New Volume to an Existing Disk Device Group (VERITAS Volume Manager)

  1. Become superuser on any node of the cluster.
  2. Determine the primary node for the disk device group to which you are adding the new volume.
  3. If the disk device group is offline, bring the device group online.

How do I determine the volume of a VXVM?

How do I check Veritas DG free space?

# vxassist -g maxsize — This command will show you how much space is there in whole diskgroup which can be used to create new volume.

How do I unclaim a vSAN disk?

Procedure

  1. Navigate to the vSAN cluster.
  2. Click the Configure tab.
  3. Under vSAN, click Disk Management.
  4. Remove a disk group or selected devices. Option. Description. Remove the Disk Group.
  5. Click Yes or Remove to confirm. The data is evacuated from the selected devices or a disk group and is no longer available to vSAN.

How do I clear vSAN partition?

In order to do, do the following steps. Go to the particular host, under Configure > Storage > Storage Devices , there should be an option to “Erase Partitions”. 2. You can validate that the partitions are indeed previous vSAN partitions.

How to calculate the size of a vxprint?

You can download the Script here . Download the script to and copy to the server.Make the script to executable and run it. You can stop the script by just pressing control+c . To get the details of another diskgroup, just stop the script and start it. If you enter incorrect values or incorrect objects names,you will get the below error.

How to increase the size of a VxVM disk, volume?

Veritas Volume Manager ( VxVM) provides the facility to resize both the size a VxVM managed disk and the size of a VxVM managed volume using the vxassist command. The VxVM volume and VxFS file system can also be increased in a single operation using the vxresize command.

How does the vxdisk resize command work in Windows 10?

The vxdisk resize command enables the user to resize the size a VxVM managed disk following a Dynamic LUN Expansion (DLE) event performed at the storage layer. NOTE: The operating system (OS) must detect the revised size, before VxVM can resize the VxVM managed disk.

How to check DG size in Veritas File System?

In the Veritas File System, it is very easy to know how much space is free in DG using vxassist command but comparatively, there is no direct option or command available to check total space in Disk Group. Likewise in Linux under LVM, it is quite similar. Total Size of VG = PE Size 4.00 MiB X Total PE 32511/1024 = Results in GB