Copyright © 2004 IBM
September 16, 2004
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. What is EVMS?
- 1.1. Why choose EVMS?
- 1.2. The EVMS user interfaces
- 1.3. EVMS terminology
- 1.4. What makes EVMS so flexible?
- 1.5. Plug-in layer definitions
- 2. Using the EVMS interfaces
- 2.1. EVMS GUI
- 2.2. EVMS Ncurses interface
- 2.3. EVMS Command Line Interpreter
- 3. The EVMS log file and error data collection
- 4. Viewing compatibility volumes after migrating
- 4.1. Using the EVMS GUI
- 4.2. Using Ncurses
- 4.3. Using the CLI
- 5. Obtaining interface display details
- 5.1. Using the EVMS GUI
- 5.2. Using Ncurses
- 5.3. Using the CLI
- 6. Adding and removing a segment manager
- 6.1. When to add a segment manager
- 6.2. Types of segment managers
- 6.3. Adding a segment manager to an existing disk
- 6.4. Adding a segment manager to a new disk
- 6.5. Example: add a segment manager
- 6.6. Removing a segment manager
- 6.7. Example: remove a segment manager
- 7. Creating segments
- 8. Creating a container
- 9. Creating regions
- 10. Creating drive links
- 10.1. What is drive linking?
- 10.2. How drive linking is implemented
- 10.3. Creating a drive link
- 10.4. Example: create a drive link
- 10.5. Expanding a drive link
- 10.6. Shrinking a drive link
- 10.7. Deleting a drive link
- 11. Creating snapshots
- 11.1. What is a snapshot?
- 11.2. Creating snapshot objects
- 11.3. Example: create a snapshot
- 11.4. Reinitializing a snapshot
- 11.5. Expanding a snapshot
- 11.6. Deleting a snapshot
- 11.7. Rolling back a snapshot
- 12. Creating volumes
- 12.1. When to create a volume
- 12.2. Example: create an EVMS native volume
- 12.3. Example: create a compatibility volume
- 13. FSIMs and file system operations
- 13.1. The FSIMs supported by EVMS
- 13.2. Example: add a file system to a volume
- 13.3. Example: check a file system
- 14. Clustering operations
- 14.1. Rules and restrictions for creating cluster containers
- 14.2. Example: create a private cluster container
- 14.3. Example: create a shared cluster container
- 14.4. Example: convert a private container to a shared container
- 14.5. Example: convert a shared container to a private container
- 14.6. Example: deport a private or shared container
- 14.7. Deleting a cluster container
- 14.8. Failover and Failback of a private container on Linux-HA
- 14.9. Remote configuration management
- 14.10. Forcing a cluster container to be active
- 15. Converting volumes
- 15.1. When to convert volumes
- 15.2. Example: convert compatibility volumes to EVMS volumes
- 15.3. Example: convert EVMS volumes to compatibility volumes
- 16. Expanding and shrinking volumes
- 16.1. Why expand and shrink volumes?
- 16.2. Example: shrink a volume
- 16.3. Example: expand a volume
- 17. Adding features to an existing volume
- 18. Selectively activating volumes and objects
- 19. Mounting and unmounting volumes from within EVMS
- 19.1. Mounting a volume
- 19.2. Unmounting a volume
- 19.3. The SWAPFS file system
- 20. Plug-in operations tasks
- 21. Deleting objects
- 21.1. How to delete objects: delete and delete recursive
- 21.2. Example: perform a delete recursive operation
- 22. Replacing objects
- 23. Moving segment storage objects
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