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Rajan_Iyer
Level 4
14 years ago

Difference between vxassist maxgrow/maxsize

Hi, I would like understand the difference between diff between below commands.

 

vxassist -g diskg1 maxgrow vol1

vxassist -g diskg1 maxsize

 

In my case 1st command shows 135 GB & 2 nd command shows 23 GB.

 

Please let me know what it means ?

 

 

Thanks

Rajan

business continuity
Storage Foundation
  • Gaurav_S's avatar
    Gaurav_S
    14 years ago

    Hello Rajan,

    maxgrow indicates how much a volume can be grown .. i.e vol01 ...so vol01 (existing size + new size) can be grown to max 135G

    however maxsize shows about the diskgroup on how much size a new volume can be created .. so if u create a new volume, you can create it for 23G

     

    G

  • Gaurav_S's avatar
    Gaurav_S
    Moderator
    14 years ago

    Hello Rajan,

    maxgrow indicates how much a volume can be grown .. i.e vol01 ...so vol01 (existing size + new size) can be grown to max 135G

    however maxsize shows about the diskgroup on how much size a new volume can be created .. so if u create a new volume, you can create it for 23G

     

    G

  • Gaurav_S's avatar
    Gaurav_S
    Moderator
    14 years ago

    Also from the man pages

    maxgrow Reports the maximum size a volume can grow given its attributes and given the free storage available.
    maxsize Reports the maximum size a volume could be created with given the attributes specified and given the free storage available.

     

    https://sort.symantec.com/public/documents/sfha/5.1sp1/solaris/manualpages/html/man/volume_manager/html/man1m/vxassist.1m.html

     

    G