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InfoScale™ 9.0 Storage Foundation Administrator's Guide - Windows
Last Published:
2025-05-23
Product(s):
InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)
Platform: Windows
- Overview
- Setup and configuration
- Setup and configuration overview
- Function overview
- About the client console for Storage Foundation
- Recommendations for caching-enabled disks
- Review the Veritas Enterprise Administrator GUI
- Configure basic disks (Optional)
- About creating dynamic disk groups
- About creating dynamic volumes
- Set desired preferences
- Protecting your SFW configuration with vxcbr
- Using the GUI to manage your storage
- Working with disks, partitions, and volumes
- Overview
- Adding storage
- Disk tasks
- Remove a disk from a dynamic disk group
- Remove a disk from the computer
- Offline a disk
- Update disk information by using rescan
- Set disk usage
- Evacuate disk
- Replace disk
- Changing the internal name of a disk
- Renaming an enclosure
- Work with removable media
- Working with disks that support thin provisioning
- View disk properties
- Veritas Disk ID (VDID)
- General Partition/Volume tasks
- Delete a volume
- Delete a partition or logical drive
- Shredding a volume
- Refresh drive letter, file system, and partition or volume information
- Add, change, or remove a drive letter or path
- Renaming a mirror (plex)
- Changing the internal name of a volume
- Mount a volume at an empty folder (Drive path)
- View all drive paths
- Format a partition or volume with the file system command
- Cancel format
- Change file system options on a partition or volume
- Set a volume to read only
- Check partition or volume properties
- Expand a dynamic volume
- Expand a partition
- Safeguarding the expand volume operation in SFW against limitations of NTFS
- Safeguarding the expand volume operation in SFW against limitations of ReFS
- Shrink a dynamic volume
- Dynamic LUN expansion
- Basic disk and volume tasks
- Automatic discovery of SSD devices and manual classification as SSD
- Disk media types
- Supported Solid-State Devices
- Icon for SSD
- Enclosure and VDID for automatically discovered On-Host Fusion-IO disks
- Enclosure and VDID for automatically discovered On-Host Intel disks
- Enclosure and VDID for automatically discovered Violin disks
- Classifying disks as SSD
- Limitations for classifying SSD devices
- Volume Manager space allocation is SSD aware
- Dealing with disk groups
- Disk groups overview
- Delete a dynamic disk group
- Upgrading the dynamic disk group version
- Converting a Microsoft Disk Management Disk Group
- Importing a dynamic disk group to a cluster disk group
- Rename a dynamic disk group
- Detaching and attaching dynamic disks
- Importing and deporting dynamic disk groups
- Importing a cloned disk group
- Partitioned shared storage with private dynamic disk group protection
- Dynamic disk group properties
- Troubleshooting problems with dynamic disk groups
- Fast failover in clustered environments
- iSCSI SAN support
- Settings for monitoring objects
- Overview
- Event monitoring and notification
- Event notification
- Disk monitoring
- Capacity monitoring
- Configuring Automatic volume growth
- SMTP configuration for email notification
- Standard features for adding fault tolerance
- Performance tuning
- FlashSnap
- FlashSnap overview
- FlashSnap components
- FastResync
- Snapshot commands
- Dynamic Disk Group Split and Join
- About Dynamic Disk Group Split and Join
- Dynamic disk group split
- Recovery for the split command
- Dynamic disk group join
- Using Dynamic Disk Group Split and Join with a cluster on shared storage
- Limitations when using dynamic disk group split and join with Volume Replicator
- Dynamic Disk Group Split and Join troubleshooting tips
- CLI FlashSnap commands
- Fast File Resync
- Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)
- Using the VSS snapshot wizards with Enterprise Vault
- Using the VSS snapshot wizards with Microsoft SQL
- Copy on Write (COW)
- Using the VSS COW snapshot wizards with Microsoft SQL
- Configuring data caching with SmartIO
- About SmartIO
- Typical deployment scenarios
- How SmartIO works
- SmartIO benefits
- SmartIO limitations
- About cache area
- About SmartIO caching support
- Configuring SmartIO
- Frequently asked questions about SmartIO
- How to configure a volume to use a non-default cache area?
- What is write-through I/O caching?
- Does SmartIO with SFW support write caching?
- Are there any logs that I can refer to, if caching fails for a particular volume?
- I have deleted a cache area, but the disk is still present in the Cachepool. How can I remove it from the Cachepool?
- Is the VxVM cached data persistent?
- Is an application's performance affected if the cache device becomes inaccessible while caching is enabled?
- Are there any tools available to measure SmartIO performance?
- Will there be a performance drop after vMotion?
- Will the cache area recreation fail, if the SmartDisk assigned has insufficient space?
- A cache area recreation is in process in a VMware environment with vMotion, does it affect the sfcache operations?
- Does SmartIO continue to use the previous cache area if the VM is moved back to the previous host?
- How does SmartIO behave if the vxsvc service fails during vMotion?
- Dynamic Multi-Pathing
- Configuring Cluster Volume Manager (CVM)
- Overview
- Configuring a CVM cluster
- Administering CVM
- Configuring CVM links for multi-subnet cluster networks
- Access modes for cluster-shared volumes
- Storage disconnectivity and CVM disk detach policy
- Unconfiguring a CVM cluster
- Command shipping
- About I/O Fencing
- Administering site-aware allocation for campus clusters
- SFW for Hyper-V virtual machines
- Introduction to Storage Foundation solutions for Hyper-V environments
- Live migration support for SFW dynamic disk group
- About implementing Hyper-V virtual machine live migration on SFW storage
- Tasks for deploying live migration support for Hyper-V virtual machines
- Installing Windows Server
- Preparing the host machines
- Installing the SFW option for Microsoft failover cluster option
- Using the SFW Configuration Wizard for Microsoft Failover Cluster for Hyper-V live migration support
- Configuring the SFW storage
- Creating a virtual machine service group
- Setting the dependency of the virtual machine on the VMDg resource
- Administering storage migration for SFW and Hyper-V virtual machine volumes
- About storage migration
- About performance tunables for storage migration
- Setting performance tunables for storage migration
- About performing online storage migration
- Storage migration limitations
- About changing the layout while performing volume migration
- Migrating volumes belonging to SFW dynamic disk groups
- Migrating volumes belonging to Hyper-V virtual machines
- Migrating data from SFW dynamic disks of one enclosure to another
- Converting your existing Hyper-V configuration to live migration supported configuration
- Optional Storage Foundation features for Hyper-V environments
- Microsoft Failover Clustering support
- Configuring a quorum in a Microsoft Failover Cluster
- Implementing disaster recovery with Volume Replicator
- Volume encryption
- Secure file system (SecureFS) for protection against ransomware
- Troubleshooting and recovery
- Overview
- Using disk and volume status information
- SFW error symbols
- Resolving common problem situations
- Bring an offline dynamic disk back to an imported state
- Bring a basic disk back to an online state
- Remove a disk from the computer
- Bring a foreign disk back to an online state
- Bring a basic volume back to a healthy state
- Bring a dynamic volume back to a healthy state
- Repair a volume with degraded data after moving disks between computers
- Deal with a provider error on startup
- Commands or procedures used in troubleshooting and recovery
- Refresh command
- Rescan command
- Replace disk command
- Merge foreign disk command
- Reactivate disk command
- Reactivate volume command
- Repair volume command for dynamic RAID-5 volumes
- Repair volume command for dynamic mirrored volumes
- Starting and stopping the Storage Foundation Service
- Accessing the CLI history
- Additional troubleshooting issues