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Administering HCL VersionVault
Learn about performing administrative tasks for an HCL VersionVault community including managing software licenses, user and group accounts, VersionVault server and client hosts, shared data, and the network that connects them.
Views and view administration
A view provides a workspace where users access versions of file and directory elements that are under HCL VersionVault control. Views can also contain view-private file system objects (such as ordinary files and directories) that are not under HCL VersionVault control.
Moving a view
Because views are easy to remove and re-create, you do not often have to move them. When you do, special procedures must be followed.
Determining whether a dynamic view on Linux or the UNIX system has remote private storage
Dynamic views on hosts running Linux or the UNIX system may have remote pools, which require special handling when moving the view.

Determining whether a dynamic view on Linux or the UNIX system has remote private storage

Dynamic views on hosts running Linux or the UNIX system may have remote pools, which require special handling when moving the view.

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Before you move a dynamic view on a host running Linux or the UNIX system, determine whether the view has symbolically linked private storage. (Snapshot views do not support symbolically linked view-private storage.) Use the ls command to list the view’s .s directory. For example:

ls –ld /net/mars/viewstg/v5_integration.vws/.s
... .s -> /public/view_aux/v5_integration

The symbolic link indicates that the private storage area is remote. If you intend to use the same storage for the moved view, it must be accessible from the new view host.

Note: Moving a view does not modify the .view file in the view storage directory. The information in this file always describes the view’s first location.