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295Administering volumes
Performing online relayout
Permitted relayout transformations
The tables below give details of the relayout operations that are possible for
each type of source storage layout.
Table 8-2 Supported relayout transformations for concatenated volumes
Relayout to From concat
concat
No.
concat-mirror
No. Add a mirror, and then use vxassist convert instead.
mirror-concat
No. Add a mirror instead.
mirror-stripe
No. Use vxassist convert after relayout to striped-mirror volume
instead.
raid5
Yes. The stripe width and number of columns may be defined.
stripe
Yes. The stripe width and number of columns may be defined.
stripe-mirror
Yes. The stripe width and number of columns may be defined.
Table 8-3 Supported relayout transformations for concatenated-mirror
volumes
Relayout to From concat-mirror
concat
No. Use vxassist convert, and then remove unwanted mirrors
from the resulting mirrored-concatenated volume instead.
concat-mirror
No.
mirror-concat
No. Use vxassist convert instead.
mirror-stripe
No. Use vxassist convert after relayout to striped-mirror volume
instead.
raid5
Yes.
stripe
Yes. This removes a mirror and adds striping. The stripe width and
number of columns may be defined.
stripe-mirror
Yes. The stripe width and number of columns may be defined.