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Adding a New Disk to HP-UX with Veritas Volume Manager
Adding a new disk to a HP-UX system that is using Veritas Volume Manager is not difficult. It does require some extra steps, but if you follow along there are no problems. Note well that this discussi… more →
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Capacity vs Performance: Thin Provisioning-Reclaiming Free Space
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wrote 2 months ago: A comment about HDS’s Zero Page Reclaim on one of my previous posts got me thinking about the … more →
VERITAS File System
wrote 5 months ago: The VERITAS File System, (or VxFS, called JFS and OJFS in HP-UX ), is an extent-based file system. I … more →
Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and HP-UX
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wrote 7 months ago: HP-UX comes with VxFS (the Veritas File System) and the Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Only the on-di … more →
Sparse files and Virtual Machines
wrote 1 year ago: Sparse files are files that take up less space on disk than they actually use. How is this possible? … more →
Quotas
wrote 1 year ago: I came across this article about Veritas VxFS disk quotas in Solaris, and it seems like a good conci … more →
Do you know Veritas?
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wrote 1 year ago: I’ve seen this question posed, and been posed it myself. Having worked with HP-UX these some y … more →
Book Review: Disk and File Management Tasks on HP-UX
wrote 1 year ago: Using LVM on HP-UX can be troublesome, and any deviation from the usual steps can cause problems. Sp … more →
VxFS (or HP Online JFS) Snapshots
wrote 1 year ago: A disk snapshot is a snap in time, a picture of what a disk looked like “back then”. Thi … more →
VxFS tuning comments and questions from reading the admin guide
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wrote 2 years ago: Here are some notes on tuning VxFS I/O from page 44-53 of Veritas File Syste Administrator’s G … more →
