Re: [Veritas-vx] could multiple filesystems dent performance?

2007-08-17 Thread Rajiv Gunja
I agree with most of what Dana has to say about this. I would differ in advise on point 4. If your SAN is EMC or Netapps (hope not), then I would say let the SAN do all the mirroring for you. With bigger databases ( greater than 2 TB ), you need need all the CPU cycles and IO over FC to your databa

Re: [Veritas-vx] Question: rootdisk mirroring (SF 4.0 MP2)

2007-08-17 Thread Rajiv Gunja
This is how I mirror on Sun Solaris: /etc/vx/bin/vxdisksetup -i c0t1d0 /usr/sbin/vxdg -g rootdg adddisk rootmirror=c0t1d0 /etc/vx/bin/vxmirror -g rootdg -a rootmirror /etc/vx/bin/vxmirror -g rootdg -D ___ Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.

Re: [Veritas-vx] VxVM 3.2 is incompatible on Solaris 10

2007-08-17 Thread Hudes, Dana
Actually depending on what you've got going on and of course assuming you have a license for 5 then you can go from 3.2 to 5. What you can't do is an in-place upgrade. You can however take the volumes etc. you've got under 3.2 and bring them up on a system running 5.0 or 4.1. I've done this with 3.

Re: [Veritas-vx] mirroring existing volume

2007-08-17 Thread robertinoau
Please read the Admin Guide and in particular the man page for vxassist. vxassist -g dg_name mirror volume alloc=disk_name - Original Message From: ajay raghuraj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: VeritasUsers Sent: Wednesday, 15 August, 2007 5:14:38 AM Subject: Re: [Veritas-vx] mirroring exi

Re: [Veritas-vx] VxVM 3.2 is incompatible on Solaris 10

2007-08-17 Thread robertinoau
"This package, VxVM 3.2, is only supported on Solaris 2.6, 7, and 8; however, you appear to be running Solaris 2.10. That is not a supported version of Solaris." The answer is rather obvious is it not ? So yes you need to to got 4.x if you are going to go to Solaris 10 and no you

Re: [Veritas-vx] T2000 Box with Solaris 10 & Veritas4.1(Encapsulation issue)

2007-08-17 Thread Myers, Mike
If folks are interested, the actual bug in this case is a pair of missing quotes in the /usr/lib/vxvm/bin/vxroot script: < if [ $? -eq 0 -a -n "$bus_drivers" ] ; --- > if [ $? -eq 0 -a -n $bus_drivers ] ; We put a fixed version onto our servers when they jumpstart so that we can encap

Re: [Veritas-vx] T2000 Box with Solaris 10 & Veritas 4.1(Encapsulation issue)

2007-08-17 Thread Biju Krishnan
Hi Gowtham, This seems to be a common issue. Refer the following technote http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/282808.htm The bottomline is MP1 patch or the workaround mentioned in the doc. Regards, PP BIJU KRISHNAN On 8/17/07, Gowthaman N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I m doing enc

[Veritas-vx] T2000 Box with Solaris 10 & Veritas 4.1(Encapsulation issue)

2007-08-17 Thread Gowthaman N
Hi, I m doing encapusulation on a T2000 server with Veritas 4.1 and during the second reboot of the server, it goes to maintenance mode Below is the error message from console. Any solutions Hostname: WARNING: /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],2