33Understanding Veritas Volume Manager
How VxVM handles storage management
In Figure 1-11 a volume, vol06, with two data plexes is mirrored. Each plex of
the mirror contains a complete copy of the volume data.
Figure 1-11 Example of a volume with two plexes
Volume vol06 has the following characteristics:
■ It contains two plexes named vol06-01 and vol06-02.
■ Each plex contains one subdisk.
■ Each subdisk is allocated from a different VM disk (disk01 and disk02).
For more information, see “Mirroring (RAID-1)” on page 42.
vol06-01
vol06
Volume with two plexes
Plexes
disk01-01
vol06-01
disk02-01
vol06-02
vol06-02