By default, the upgrade changes the naming from osn ( os native ) to ebn
( enclosure based ). Additionally, disk_0 will not necessarily be
c0t0d0s2, it could be c0t1d0s2. Run the following command and see if
this clears up some of the confusion:

 

vxddladm set namingscheme=osn persistence=yes lowercase=yes use_avid=yes

 

Hope this helps. Good luck !

________________________________

From: veritas-vx-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-vx-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Asiye
Yigit
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 11:29 AM
To: hud...@hra.nyc.gov; ger...@gotadsl.co.uk;
veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-vx] couldn't encapsulate boot disk

 

Hello,
I am really aware of zfs and other features. Just test purpose I am
trying to do boot disk encapsulation. I think it is still supported on
this system.

________________________________

From: Hudes, Dana 
To: Asiye Yigit; Christian Gerbrandt ; veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Sent: Wed Oct 06 17:45:29 2010
Subject: RE: [Veritas-vx] couldn't encapsulate boot disk 

don't do it.

There is no longer, with a Solaris 10 system such as your 5120, a valid
reason to use VERITAS boot disk encapsulation.

Use ZFS. As I recall the 5120 has hardware mirroring so you could use
that or you could use ZFS mirroring.  The advantage of hardware
mirroring is that it doesn't come up to the OS -- but a 5120 has enough
CPUs to deal with mirroring. Managing the mirror with ZFS gives you more
ready access via fmadm to any disk errors rather than having them buried
behind the raid controller. 

Use Solaris 10, preferably update 9, and ZFS for your boot. This is also
very important for zones and for Live Upgrade.

VERITAS has its advantages in some situations for managing data disks
(for example, raw volumes and Oracle if you have an ODM license),
especially older Oracle releases (all of which are certified to work on
Solaris 10).  LU will make ZFS snapshots and clones if you have a ZFS
boot disk. If you have VERITAS-encapsulated it will first unencapsulate
the boot slice.

 

VERITAS boot encapsulation also lacks a mirrored dump device: since Vx
doesn't have the API for dump, you have to give the underlying swap
slice. Lose that disk lose your dump device.  Vx requires swap is a
slice, it's fixed in size until you manually go in and grow that slice
-- if you left room on your root disk to do that operation. ZFS root, by
contrast, uses a zvol for dump and a zvol for swap. They are sparse
devices only using space when needed. Of course that means you can fill
your entire root disk and leave nothing for dump or swap -- so you could
also just create them as regular zvols with nailed-up space which you
can shrink and grow manually as desired without worrying that you left
room in your disk layout.

 

boot encapsulation was the thing to do on Solaris 8 and 9. Not 10.

 

         

        
________________________________


        From: veritas-vx-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-vx-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Asiye
Yigit
        Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 10:18 AM
        To: Christian Gerbrandt; veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
        Subject: Re: [Veritas-vx] couldn't encapsulate boot disk

        Hello;

        Disk is okay.

        I know it should be online invalid.

         

        For both T5120 systems, the problem is same.

        I have many disk from san and two disks internal.

        For the boot disk, for both system, it says error state.

        Disks are okay physically.

        There may be some point patch for SF 5.1RP2 for boot disk
mirroring?

         

        From: Christian Gerbrandt [mailto:ger...@gotadsl.co.uk] 
        Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 5:17 PM
        To: Asiye Yigit; veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
        Subject: RE: [Veritas-vx] couldn't encapsulate boot disk

         

        As you can see, disk_2 is showing in 'error' state.

        But it should show as 'online invalid'.

        There seems to be an error with the disk.

        Check the status of the disk from OS/VxVM and SAN.

         

        From: veritas-vx-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-vx-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Asiye
Yigit
        Sent: 06 October 2010 14:55
        To: veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
        Subject: [Veritas-vx] couldn't encapsulate boot disk

         

        Hello;

         

        I have installed SP 5.1RP2 on solaris 10 system.

        I am trying to encapsulate the boot disk and after that I will
make mirror.

         

        In the vxdisk list,

        It shows  

         

        DEVICE       TYPE            DISK         GROUP        STATUS

        disk_2       auto            -            -            error

        disk_3       auto:none       -            -            online
invalid

        st2540-0_0   auto:none       -            -            online
invalid

         

        when I try to encapsulate the disk disk_2;

        it says

         

        Select disk devices to encapsulate:


        [<pattern-list>,all,list,q,?] disk_2

          Here is the disk selected.  Output format: [Device_Name]

         

          disk_2

         

        Continue operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y) 

          You can choose to add this disk to an existing disk group or
to

          a new disk group.  To create a new disk group, select a disk
group

          name that does not yet exist.

         

        Which disk group [<group>,list,q,?] rootdg

         

        Create a new group named rootdg? [y,n,q,?] (default: y) 

         

        Use a default disk name for the disk? [y,n,q,?] (default: y) 

          A new disk group will be created named rootdg and the selected

          disks will be encapsulated and added to this disk group with

          default disk names.

         

          disk_2

         

        Continue with operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y) 

          This disk device is disabled (offline) and cannot be used.

          Output format: [Device_Name]

         

          disk_2

         

        Hit RETURN to continue.

         

        When I try to make online;

         

        It says

         

        Select a disk device to enable [<disk>,list,q,?] disk_2

          VxVM vxdisk ERROR V-5-1-531 Device disk_2: online failed:

                Device path not valid

         

        Enable another device? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)

         

        Is there any idea?

         

        Best regards;

         

         

         

         

         

         

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