Interview questions on Veritas Volume Manager

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Some good questions on VERITAS Volume Manager. Before asking these questions make sure that candidate is familiar with LVM or VxVM and knows the benefits of these tools over traditional partitioning/file system.

1. Name the mandatory disk group in VxVM 3.5 ? How will configure VxVM in 3.5 ?
2. How will you create private and shared disk group using VxVM ?
3. Which are the different layouts for volumes in VxVM ?
4. What is the basic difference between private disk group and shared disk group ?
5. How will you add new disk to the existing disk group ?
6. How will grow/shrink the volume/file system ? What is the meaning of growby and growto options ? What is the meaning on shrinkto and shrinkby options ?
7. How will you setup and unsetup disks explicitly using VxVM ?
8. How will list the disks, which are in different disk groups ?
9. What is private region in VxVM ?
10. If, vxdisk list command gives you disks status as "error", what steps you will follow to make the respective disks online ?

These are some questions which I feel every storage professional should know. Please let me know if these are useful, answers will be posted in coming posts.

THANKS ASHISH FOR CONTRIBUTING ABOVE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS ON VERITAS VOLUME MANAGER