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    Computer Technologies  Software  Lunix EVMS User Guide
    EVMS User Guide

    EVMS User Guide

    Joy Goodreau

    IBM

    Kylie Smith

    IBM

    Christine Lorenz

    IBM

    Copyright © 2003 IBM

    March 31, 2003

    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. Downloading and installing EVMS
    2.1. Preparing your system
    2.2. Downloading EVMS
    2.3. Patching the kernel
    2.4. Configuring the kernel
    2.5. Building and installing the new kernel
    2.6. Installing the cluster manager
    2.7. Installing the Engine
    2.8. Activating EVMS volumes
    2.9. The root filesystem on an EVMS volume
    2.10. Setting up clustered EVMS
    3. Using the EVMS interfaces
    3.1. EVMS GUI
    3.2. EVMS Ncurses interface
    3.3. EVMS Command Line Interpreter
    4. The EVMS log file and error data collection
    4.1. About the EVMS log file
    4.2. Log file logging levels
    4.3. Specifying the logging levels
    5. Viewing compatibility volumes after migrating
    5.1. Using the EVMS GUI
    5.2. Using Ncurses
    5.3. Using the CLI
    6. Obtaining interface display details
    6.1. Using the EVMS GUI
    6.2. Using Ncurses
    6.3. Using the CLI
    7. Assigning a segment manager
    7.1. When to assign a segment manager
    7.2. Types of segment managers
    7.3. Assigning a segment manager to an existing disk
    7.4. Assigning a segment manager to a new disk
    7.5. Example: assign a segment manager
    8. Creating segments
    8.1. When to create a segment
    8.2. Example: create a segment
    9. Creating a container
    9.1. When to create a container
    9.2. Example: create a container
    10. Creating regions
    10.1. When to create regions
    10.2. Example: create a region
    11. Creating drive links
    11.1. What is drive linking?
    11.2. How drive linking is implemented
    11.3. Creating a drive link
    11.4. Example: create a drive link
    11.5. Expanding a drive link
    11.6. Shrinking a drive link
    11.7. Deleting a drive link
    12. Creating snapshots
    12.1. What is a snapshot?
    12.2. Creating and activating snapshot objects
    12.3. Example: create a snapshot
    12.4. Reinitializing a snapshot
    12.5. Deleting a snapshot
    12.6. Rolling back a snapshot
    13. Creating volumes
    13.1. When to create a volume
    13.2. Example: create an EVMS native volume
    13.3. Example: create a compatibility volume
    14. FSIMs and file system operations
    14.1. The FSIMs supported by EVMS
    14.2. Example: add a file system to a volume
    14.3. Example: check a file system
    15. Clustering operations
    15.1. Rules and restrictions for creating cluster containers
    15.2. Example: create a private cluster container
    15.3. Example: create a shared cluster container
    15.4. Example: convert a private container to a shared container
    15.5. Example: convert a shared container to a private container
    15.6. Example: deport a private or shared container
    15.7. Deleting a cluster container
    15.8. Failover and Failback of a private container on Linux-HA
    15.9. Remote configuration management
    15.10. Forcing a cluster container to be imported
    16. Converting volumes
    16.1. When to convert volumes
    16.2. Example: convert compatibility volumes to EVMS volumes
    16.3. Example: convert EVMS volumes to compatibility volumes
    17. Expanding and shrinking volumes
    17.1. Why expand and shrink volumes?
    17.2. Example: shrink a volume
    17.3. Example: expand a volume
    18. Adding features to an existing volume
    18.1. Why add features to a volume?
    18.2. Example: add drive linking to an existing volume
    19. Plug-in operations tasks
    19.1. What are plug-in tasks?
    19.2. Example: complete a plug-in operations task
    20. Destroying EVMS objects
    20.1. How to delete objects: delete and delete recursive
    20.2. Example: perform a delete recursive operation
    A. Building an init-ramdisk to use with EVMS
    A.1. Build and install EVMS
    A.2. Kernel support for initrd
    A.3. Build the initrd image
    A.4. Set up the boot loader
    A.5. Update the file system configuration
    A.6. Reboot the system
    B. The DOS link plug-in
    B.1. How the DOS plug-in is implemented
    B.2. Assigning the DOS plug-in
    B.3. Creating DOS partitions
    B.4. Expanding DOS partitions
    B.5. Shrinking DOS partitions
    B.6. Deleting partitions
    C. The MD region manager
    C.1. Creating an MD region
    C.2. Adding and removing a spare object (RAID-1 and RAID-4/5)
    C.3. Removing an active object (RAID-1 only)
    C.4. Removing a faulty object (RAID-1 and RAID-4/5)
    C.5. Marking an object faulty (RAID-4/5 only)
    C.6. Replacing an object
    C.7. Characteristics of Linux RAID levels
    D. The LVM plug-in
    D.1. How LVM is implemented
    D.2. Container operations
    D.3. Region operations
    E. The CSM plug-in
    E.1. Assigning the CSM plug-in
    E.2. Unassigning the CSM plug-in
    E.3. Deleting a CSM container
    F. JFS file system interface module
    F.1. Creating JFS file systems
    F.2. Checking JFS file systems
    F.3. Removing JFS file systems
    F.4. Expanding JFS file systems
    F.5. Shrinking JFS file systems
    G. XFS file system interface module
    G.1. Creating XFS file systems
    G.2. Checking XFS file systems
    G.3. Removing XFS file systems
    G.4. Expanding XFS file systems
    G.5. Shrinking XFS file systems
    H. ReiserFS file system interface module
    H.1. Creating ReiserFS file systems
    H.2. Checking ReiserFS file systems
    H.3. Removing ReiserFS file systems
    H.4. Expanding ReiserFS file systems
    H.5. Shrinking ReiserFS file systems
    I. Ext-2/3 file system interface module
    I.1. Creating Ext-2/3 file systems
    I.2. Checking Ext-2/3 file systems
    I.3. Removing Ext-2/3 file systems
    I.4. Expanding and shrinking Ext-2/3 file systems
    List of Tables
    1. Organization of the EVMS User Guide
    1-1. EVMS user interfaces
    3-1. Accelerator keys in the Main Window
    3-2. Accelerator keys in the views
    3-3. Accelerator keys in the selection window
    3-4. Accelerator keys in the configuration options window
    3-5. Widget navigation keys in the configuration options window
    4-1. EVMS logging levels
    17-1. FSIM support for expand and shrink operations
    List of Figures
    2-1. xconfig Window
    2-2. Multi-device Support (RAID and LVM) Window
    5-1. GUI start-up window
    5-2. Ncurses start-up window
    5-3. CLI volume query results
    List of Examples
    7-1. Assign the DOS Segment Manager
    8-1. Create a 100MB segment
    9-1. Create "Sample Container"
    10-1. Create "Sample Region"
    11-1. Create a drive link
    12-1. Create a snapshot of a volume
    13-1. Create an EVMS native volume
    13-2. Create a compatibility volume
    14-1. Add a JFS File System to a Volume
    14-2. Check a JFS File System
    15-1. Create a private cluster container
    15-2. Create a shared cluster container
    15-3. Convert a private container to shared
    15-4. Convert a shared container to private
    15-5. Deport a cluster container
    16-1. Convert a compatibility volume
    16-2. Convert an EVMS volume
    17-1. Shrink a volume
    17-2. Expand a volume
    18-1. Add drive linking to an existing volume
    19-1. Add a spare disk to a compatibility volume made from an MDRaid5 region
    20-1. Destroy a volume and the region and container below it
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