Configure disk array devices
Disk arrays are configuredusingthesameprocedureforconfiguring any n ew disk on
the host. This includes the following procedures:
1. Verifying the device files and d rivers
2. Creating the device files
3. Creating the physical volumes
4. Creating n
ew volume groups
5. Creating logical volumes
6. Creating the file systems
7. Setting the I/O timeout parameter
8. Creating the mou nt directories
9. Mounting and verifying the file systems
10. Setting and verifying the auto-mount parameters
The HP
-UX system uses the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) to manage the OPEN-x
devices on the disk array. The instructions in this section do not explicitly cover all
LVM configuration issues. For further information o n LVM configuration, see the HP-UX
user
documentation.
HP System Administrator Manager (SAM) ca n be used instead of UNIX commands to
configure SCSI disk devices. See Appendix C - Reference information for SAM for
further information.
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