Performing Online Relayout

You can use the vxassist relayout command to reconfigure the layout of a volume without taking it offline. The general form of this command is:

The following are valid destination layout configurations as determined by the tables in Permitted Relayout Transformations:

concat-mirror---concatenated-mirror

concat or span, nostripe, nomirror---concatenated

raid5---RAID-5 (not supported for shared disk groups)

stripe---striped

stripe-mirror---striped-mirror

For example, the following command changes a concatenated volume, vol02, in disk group, mydg, to a striped volume with the default number of columns, 2, and default stripe unit size, 64 kilobytes:

On occasions, it may be necessary to perform a relayout on a plex rather than on a volume. See Specifying a Plex for Relayout for more information.