Re: [Veritas-vx] vxdisk resize on EFI disk?
Do you have powerpath on the box? http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/292070.htm On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Rongsheng Fang unixlife...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Is it possible to use vxdisk resize on a EFI disk? I tried it on a Solaris 10 5/08 with VxVM 5.0MP1 but got the following error: root # vxdisk -g backupDG resize backup-disk1 VxVM vxdisk ERROR V-5-1-11476 Device backup-disk1: is an EFI device,resize operation not supported for EFI disks So basically I expanded the backend EMC CLARiiON LUN by 500GB to 1.5TB and was planning on dynamically resizing the LUN on Solaris. But this obviously doesn't work. Is there a VxVM patch in place for this to work, or any other way to fix this without tearing apart the LUN and re-doing everything? Thanks, Rongsheng ___ Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-vx -- sengork ___ Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-vx
[Veritas-vx] vxdisk resize on EFI disk?
Hi, Is it possible to use vxdisk resize on a EFI disk? I tried it on a Solaris 10 5/08 with VxVM 5.0MP1 but got the following error: root # vxdisk -g backupDG resize backup-disk1 VxVM vxdisk ERROR V-5-1-11476 Device backup-disk1: is an EFI device,resize operation not supported for EFI disks So basically I expanded the backend EMC CLARiiON LUN by 500GB to 1.5TB and was planning on dynamically resizing the LUN on Solaris. But this obviously doesn't work. Is there a VxVM patch in place for this to work, or any other way to fix this without tearing apart the LUN and re-doing everything? Thanks, Rongsheng ___ Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-vx
Re: [Veritas-vx] vxdisk resize on EFI disk?
No, we are not using PowerPath. I just spoke with Symantec support and was told there was no patch for this. The workaround they mentioned is remove the LUN from the disk group and get the OS to recognize the new size for the LUN and add it back to the disk group, then re-create the volumes. However that doesn't guarantee the data on the disk. What I am doing now is get another LUN with the same size (after expansion) and add it to the disk group to create a mirror of the disk that was expanded. Then from there I will shuffle things around to hopefully get this to work. On Apr 7, 2009, at 9:57 AM, Sengor wrote: Do you have powerpath on the box? http:// seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/292070.htm On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Rongsheng Fang unixlife...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is it possible to use vxdisk resize on a EFI disk? I tried it on a Solaris 10 5/08 with VxVM 5.0MP1 but got the following error: root # vxdisk -g backupDG resize backup-disk1 VxVM vxdisk ERROR V-5-1-11476 Device backup-disk1: is an EFI device,resize operation not supported for EFI disks So basically I expanded the backend EMC CLARiiON LUN by 500GB to 1.5TB and was planning on dynamically resizing the LUN on Solaris. But this obviously doesn't work. Is there a VxVM patch in place for this to work, or any other way to fix this without tearing apart the LUN and re-doing everything? Thanks, Rongsheng ___ Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-vx -- sengork ___ Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-vx
