[SunHELP] veritas volume manager

[Tim Longo]

Thanks for the responses.

It seems that vxassist will by default only use 3 disks when creating a raid
group.  If I specify ncols=5, it will use 5 of 6 disks.  The sixth disk is
used for logging, so it can't be part of the raid volume.


>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Longo [mailto:tlongo at avaya.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 7:47 AM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunHELP] veritas volume manager
>
>
> I currently have 6x36gb disks in a D1000 array hooked up to a 220R.  I'd
> like to configure these disks using Veritas volume manager in a raid5
> configuration.  It seems that when I do so, the amount of
> available space is
> much smaller than I would expect.  Since I have 6 disks, 6x36g=216gb max.
> When I create a disk group, and make a raid5 volume, the maximum available
> space I can use in my volume is 69gb.  Can anyone explain that to
> me?  Am I
> doing something wrong?
>
> Thanks.