Audience and Scope

This guide is intended for system administrators responsible for installing, configuring, and maintaining systems under the control of the VERITAS Volume Manager.

This guide assumes that the user has a:

The purpose of this guide is to provide the system administrator with a thorough knowledge of the procedures and concepts involved with volume management and system administration using the Volume Manager. This guide includes guidelines on how to take advantage of various Volume Manager features, instructions on how to use Volume Manager commands to create and manipulate objects, and information on how to recover from disk failures.