Veritas Volume Manager and a Storage Area Network

This paper will discuss the task of installing, configuring and securing Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM). VxVM is an 'advanced system-level disk and storage array solution that alleviates downtime during system maintenance by enabling easy online disk administration and configuration. The product also helps ensure data integrity and high availability by offering fast failure recovery and fault tolerant features.' Additionally I will discuss incorporating the VxVM resources into an existing Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) configuration. The purpose of this paper is not only to walk the reader through what I've presented above but to also provide information that I wasn't able to find in a text or on the Internet and was only able to learn by way of trial and error. I've also supplied the Perl code I wrote to perform the installing patching and configuring of VxVM.