AdvancedCopy Manager can back up or replicate volumes under the control of VxVM (referred to as VxVM volumes in this document) in the following units:
Physical disk that constitutes a volume group
The VM disks (physical disks) on which a sub-disk used by a logical volume exists are used as the management units.
Figure 1.5 Example of VxVM configuration
Since AdvancedCopy Manager copies an entire VM disk, not only the shared area that is a sub-disk but also the public region containing VxVM-internal configuration information is copied.
When backup or replication is performed, therefore, the integrity of VxVM configuration information must be maintained during copying.
Specify a device name as follows:
/dev/vx/dmp/sd#
Note
Operations are not supported under naming convention operations based on enclosures in VxVM.
For operation in a cluster configuration, the device name (/dev/sd#) of the physical disks that comprise the volume group must be the same at all servers that comprise the cluster, and the ETERNUS Disk storage system's disk indicated by the device name must be the same.
