Veritas

Without filesystem the created partitions cannot be used. The time of installing Veritas storage foundation, packages are also installed. pkginfo | grep VRTS commang will check whether any packages installed in system. All packages in Veritas starts with VRTS. Packages can also be installed manually using the command pkgadd -d VRTSVxvm VRTSVmman VRTSVmdoc.

For installing the license key for Veritas, execute the command vxlicinst. To configure the Veritas volume manager or VSF, put vxinstall command. If we install packages using script, it will install both VSF and VEA. But if we install packages manually using pkgadd, it will only install VSF and then we have to install VEA later by manually. In brief, three ways to work with Veritas are VEA, command line and Vxdiskadm. Here VEA is a java console, command line doesn't have VEA and Vxdiskadm will give CLI with options.

The default disk group in Veritas is rootvg and this can be decided while installing. VX is the command used to list all the commands used in Veritas. Vea command opens GUI and if this doesn't work, we have to find the path using find /-name vea. Because this will show the path of vea and then we have to go to /etc/profile and add the path. This makes the command to work. Vxconfigd is the parent daemon in Veritas.

After installing vvm, we can create disk groups----> add disks to dg----> create volumes----> format volumes----> mount it----> Edit in /etc/profile file to make it permanent. For mounting it permanently, we have to give the following one line entry in /etc/vfstab file
/dev/vx/dsk/appdg/vol /dev/vx/rdsk/appdg/dvol /data1 vxfs - yes -

If you want further details about Veritas, see my posts under the Veritas category and I have also posted Solaris and AIX details in my site, so try to view those pages and get use of it.