HP P6000 Continuous Access Software User Manual

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Veritas file system (VxFS) is supported. HFS file system is not supported.

•

The following resize operations are not supported when using LVM:

Extend logical volumes in native LVM Volume Groups with mirrored, striped, or contiguous
logical volumes.

◦

◦

Extend logical volumes in native LVM Volume Group when VG is cluster aware (activated
in shared or exclusive mode).

◦

Extend logical volumes in native LVM Volume Group using PV that is not allocatable
(includes spare PVs and PVs in read-only mode).

Shrink support?

Extend support?

Host volume configuration

HP-UX 11.31

None

Manual

1

(offline

2

only)

LVM and Veritas online JFS

Policy

3

and manual

1

(online)

Policy

3

and manual (online)

Non-LVM and Veritas online JFS

None

Manual

1

(offline

2

only)

LVM and VxFS without online JFS.

None

Manual

1

(offline

2

only)

Non-LVM and VxFS without online JFS.

None

None

VxVM

None

None

HFS filesystem

HP-UX 11.23

None

Manual

1, 4

(offline

2

only)

LVM and VxFS with or without online

JFS

Manual

1

(offline

2

only)

Manual

1

(offline

2

only)

Non-LVM and VxFS with or without

online JFS

None

None

VxVM

None

None

HFS filesystem

1

When performing a manual extend or shrink, the operation is executed immediately. No policy is created when performing
a manual operation.

2

If the host volume is not part of a volume group, taking it offline involves unmounting it. If the host volume is part of a
volume group, taking it offline involves unmounting it and deactivating the volume group.

3

Policies are supported only for single virtual disk host volumes.

4

Requires installation of the vgmodify tool. This tool is part of the HPUX patch PHCO_35524 for 11.23.

VMFS requirements and considerations

•

Only extend is supported with VMFS.

•

Support is provided only for host volumes on basic disks on VMFS volumes. Dynamic disks
are not supported.

•

Support is provided only for host volumes created on LUNs from the same storage system.

Selecting the proper dynamic capacity policy thresholds

When setting a dynamic policy, the following guidelines apply:

•

Use an extend threshold of 75% or greater.

•

Use a shrink threshold of 35% or less.

•

Use an increment value of approximately 10% of the current host volume size. For example,
if the current size is 50 GB use an increment value of 5 GB.

Host volume concepts

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