53Understanding Veritas Volume Manager
Volume layouts in VxVM
plex (for example, resizing the volume, changing the column width, or adding a
column).
System administrators can manipulate the layered volume structure for
troubleshooting or other operations (for example, to place data on specific
disks). Layered volumes are used by VxVM to perform the following tasks and
operations:
■ Creating striped-mirrors. (See “Creating a striped-mirror volume” on
page 254, and the vxassist(1M) manual page.)
■ Creating concatenated-mirrors. (See “Creating a concatenated-mirror
volume” on page 249, and the vxassist(1M) manual page.)
■ Online Relayout. (See “Online relayout” on page 54, and the
vxrelayout(1M) and vxassist(1M) manual pages.)
■ RAID-5 subdisk moves. (See the vxsd(1M) manual page.)
■ Snapshots. (See “Administering volume snapshots” on page 303, and the
vxsnap(1M) and
vxassist(1M) manual pages.)
