Veritas InfoScale 7.4.2 Fundamentals for UNIX/Linux: Administration

Volume Layouts:

• Disk Spanning
• Data Redundancy (parity bit)
  • RAID-5:
    • Great for read heavy workloads
    • If a disk fails, performance is degraded
  • RAID-6: Not Supported
• Data Redundancy with mirroring
  • RAID-1+0 (RAID 10)
    • Performance plus reduandancy

# vxdisk list

The above command will list disks. Disks that are ‘online invalid’ do not have a private sector and are not under veritas controll; disks that are ‘online’ are under vertias control.