Introducing VERITAS foundation suite for AIX

Introducing VERITAS foundation suite for AIX

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization (-)
Otros Autores: Govindjee, Anita (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [United States?] : IBM, International Technical Support Organization 2002.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:IBM redbooks.
Materias:
AIX (Computer file)
Database management.
Computer storage devices.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front cover
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Notices
  • Trademarks
  • Preface
  • The team that wrote this redbook
  • Become a published author
  • 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 resources
  • Cluster configurations
  • Cluster communications
  • Cluster installation and setup
  • Cluster administration facilities
  • 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.

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