Vertica Support for LVM

Vertica Analytic Database 8.1.x supports Linux Volume Manager (LVM) on all supported operating systems.

LVM Version Supported

Vertica Analytic Database supports LVM version 2.02.66 or later, and must include device-mapper version 1.02.48 or later.

In configuring LVM:

When you create logical volumes with the lvcreate command, use the readahead option to set the read ahead sector count to greater than 2048 KB.
You can use the default settings for all other LVM options.

The following limitations apply to LVM support:

Your logical volume file system type must be ext4.

Note: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11.0 Service Pack 3 (SP3) supports the ext3 file system. However, Vertica is phasing out support for this operating system. See End-of-Support and Deprecation Notices for more information.
You cannot have physical drives shared across several nodes.
Vertica supports linear logical volumes only. Vertica does not support striped or mirrored logical volumes.
Vertica supports extending logical volumes (lvextend), but not reducing the size of a logical volume.
Vertica recommends frequent backups.
Vertica does not support LVM backup and restore, such as LVM snapshot and merge. Use the Vertica backup file vbr.py.

Vertica does not support LVM space reclamation. Space reclamation is duplicated with reducing the size of a logical volume.

Vertica does not support LVM high availability. Use Vertica high availability capabilities.