9.4. VxVM Volume Manager
The VxVM Volume Manager from Veritas is an alternative disk management system that is provided on HP-UX 11i systems. It provides almost all of the features of LVM, plus additional features that mainly help with availability and manageability. For instance, the VxVM product provides a graphical user interface for creating logical volumes on the system. It also allows both striping and mirroring to be done simultaneously (RAID 10 support) and provides RAID 5 support. VxVM can also provide up to thirty-two mirrored copies of data. The multiple mirror support allows VxVM to provide a snapshot copy of a volume group for backup and then to automatically resync the snapshot copy with any changes that may have occurred during ...
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