Interview Questions Discussed

1) What is the command to view the active vg? 

# varyonvg -o

2) How do u configure the Disk? 


# cfgmgr


3) Tell me Steps to configure the VG? 


# cfgmgr
# lspv 
# mkvg -y vgname -s PP Size PV's
# lsvg -o


4) How do u add a new disk in VG? 


# cfgmgr
# extendvg vgname newdis(PV)
# lsvg -p vgname /* To verify the new disk successfully added to the VG */


5) What are the Attibutes of LVM? 


Attributes include Physical Volume, Physical Partition, Logical Volume, Logical Partition, Volume Group, File system.


6) How do u find the fix is installed? 

# instfix -icqv  <FIX NO>

7) How to u extend the FS? 

# chfs -a size=<+desired size> <filesystem>

8) Attributes of FS? 

Attributes include File System Type, Mount Point, Accounting and Logical Volume.

9) List all the LV in system? 

# lslv 

10) How do u find the PP size of the VG? 

# lsvg vgname

11) How do u create the pp size of 32 MB in VG? 

# mkvg -s 32 hdisk's

11) What is the Limitation of VG? 

Big VG, Normal VG and Scalable VG.

12) How do u disable the paging space? 

# chps -a n paging

13) What is LPAR?

LPAR is called Logical Parition. An object of Virtualization, which is an AIX/Linux/VIOS server which resources are logically shared and built.