Re: [Veritas-vx] Veritas 5.0/Solaris 8/DMP - Getting rid of ghost entries from format

2009-04-13 Thread Jarkko Airaksinen
Hello, I have an eva qlogic23xx hbas as well. In (quite) a few cases, after unpresenting removing a disk I've had to use luxadm to remove the c#t#d#s2 device paths in os level so that the rest can be cleared with devfsadm -C. Here's a clip from some document I got from another sol vvm

Re: [Veritas-vx] vxdmp treating a/a array as a/p

2009-04-02 Thread Jarkko Airaksinen
restarting it, and another vxdctl enable. Any ideas how to proceed? Rebooting (if it would even help) is the last option as this is a live server. Thanks, Jarkko Airaksinen -Original Message- From: veritas-vx-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-vx-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

[Veritas-vx] vxdmp treating a/a array as a/p

2009-04-01 Thread Jarkko Airaksinen
the EVA as A/P (alua?) instead of A/A. How could I make vxdmp understand that the array is an A/A array? Thanks, Jarkko Airaksinen ___ Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-vx

[Veritas-vx] emptying slice

2008-06-04 Thread Jarkko Airaksinen
Hello, I'm moving stuff from a subdisk to another with vxassist move. I had to abort the move once because it seemed that rman + vxassist move killed our san box. Now the target subdisk is 89% full, so I get this. # vxassist -g cd_backup01_tbsdg move BACKUP01_TBS \!cd_backup01_tbsdg01

[Veritas-vx] VEA issue

2008-01-17 Thread Jarkko Airaksinen
Hello, I'm running SF 5.0 on two identical servers. Last week in the other server the VEA somehow stopped working. I can connect to the servers with the VEA client but on the other server there are no subelements at all (no actionagent, storageagent, vailagent). The processes running on

Re: [Veritas-vx] Problem adding news disks on Veritas

2007-10-23 Thread Jarkko Airaksinen
Hello, I've never needed to reboot my SunOS server 5.8 Generic_117350-44 sun4us sparc FJSV,GPUZC-M with VxVM 5.0, VxDMP VxFS when adding new (SAN) disks. If for some reason the new disks don't show in 'vxdisk list' after presenting them to the server, all I need to do is 'vxdisk scandisks'

Re: [Veritas-vx] one slice failing

2007-08-13 Thread Jarkko Airaksinen
. Karr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: jueves, 09 de agosto de 2007 22:42 To: James Slater Cc: Cronin, John S; Jarkko Airaksinen; Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-vx] one slice failing Failing is set when VxVM gets an unrecoverable I/O error from DMP. If the I/O error

Re: [Veritas-vx] dmp question?

2007-08-13 Thread Jarkko Airaksinen
Hello, The only thing that wasn't automatic in my case was the recognition of the type of the array, i.e. A-A, A/A-A-HP, A-P etc. In my case (A-A array) I had to manually enable all paths to the luns. I did it when I changed the multipathing scheme to adaptive with the 'use_all_paths=yes'

[Veritas-vx] one slice failing

2007-08-09 Thread Jarkko Airaksinen
Hello, After a short connection loss at the SAN I got some write errors and this: dg cd_data01dg default default 11175087864.68.mdr-cadmium dm cd_data01dg01 c3t50001FE15005E90Dd9s2 auto 65536 629047040 NOHOTUSE dm cd_data01dg02 c3t50001FE15005E90Cd8s2 auto 65536

[Veritas-vx] dmp question

2007-05-25 Thread Jarkko Airaksinen
Hello, There's something odd going on with one of the 8 paths I use for my FC disks. It's all the time 100% busy and has huge avg service times. Here's an output of vsar: Disk %busy %avg avque await aserv nrd avg nwr avg rd(k) wr(k) c5t50001 100.00 100.001.10.0

[Veritas-vx] remount add parameters

2007-04-25 Thread Jarkko Airaksinen
Hello all Gurus out there, Is there any way to add specific options when remounting a mounted file system? Looks like I can remove them but not add. For example I mount a file system with convosync=direct: # mount -F vxfs -o convosync=direct /dev/vx/dsk/cd_testdg01/cd_testvol01

Re: [Veritas-vx] remount add parameters

2007-04-25 Thread Jarkko Airaksinen
Brilliant! Thank you, Sir! -jarkko- -Original Message- From: Myers, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: miƩrcoles, 25 de abril de 2007 18:06 To: Jarkko Airaksinen; Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-vx] remount add parameters Try it this way: mount -F

Re: [Veritas-vx] removing devices

2007-04-24 Thread Jarkko Airaksinen
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: lunes, 23 de abril de 2007 23:22 To: Jarkko Airaksinen; Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-vx] removing devices what kind of output do you get with? # cfgadm -o show_FCP_dev -al -Original Message- From

Re: [Veritas-vx] resizing a device

2007-04-13 Thread Jarkko Airaksinen
: Re: [Veritas-vx] resizing a device Jarkko Airaksinen wrote: Hello, I see your point. Which is faster, transferring the data between two separate file systems (i.e. over FC, ~210MB/s), or moving stuff within the same disk group? I'd imagine that moving data from a LUN to another will require

Re: [Veritas-vx] resizing a device

2007-04-13 Thread Jarkko Airaksinen
but then this license thing stopped me from moving volumes between disk groups. So, not doable (unless I pay for some extra license). -j- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jarkko Airaksinen Sent: viernes, 13 de abril de 2007 10:26 To: Doug

Re: [Veritas-vx] removing devices

2007-04-12 Thread Jarkko Airaksinen
. However at times only some (or none) of the paths disappear when I remove the disk. I'll play with the driver a bit and see if I can disable them manually. -j- -Original Message- From: Myers, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: miƩrcoles, 11 de abril de 2007 18:56 To: Jarkko Airaksinen

Re: [Veritas-vx] removing devices

2007-04-12 Thread Jarkko Airaksinen
Yes, in a way it's present as I don't disconnect the whole SAN :). I just do the normal device removal process (umount fs, remove volume from the disk group etc) and finally unpresent it from the SAN. What makes this odd is that sometimes the removal works just fine. On a slow day when

Re: [Veritas-vx] resizing a device

2007-04-12 Thread Jarkko Airaksinen
Summary! In case someone else is fighting with the same problems I thought I'd share my conclusion with you. I've decided not to resize the LUNS / file systems at all as Solaris 8 is quite restrictive with LUN resizing. I've overcome the need for resizing them with a bit of thinking. Given the

Re: [Veritas-vx] resizing a device

2007-04-12 Thread Jarkko Airaksinen
the no user impact sounds quite tempting. -j- -Original Message- From: Doug Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: jueves, 12 de abril de 2007 14:49 To: Jarkko Airaksinen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Veritas-vx] resizing a device Jarkko Airaksinen wrote: Summary! In case someone else

Re: [Veritas-vx] resizing a device

2007-04-12 Thread Jarkko Airaksinen
a device Jarkko Airaksinen wrote: Hello, I see your point. Which is faster, transferring the data between two separate file systems (i.e. over FC, ~210MB/s), or moving stuff within the same disk group? I'd imagine that moving data from a LUN to another will require the same I/O regardless

[Veritas-vx] removing devices

2007-04-11 Thread Jarkko Airaksinen
Hello, I've removed some disks from the server but they keep on coming back for example after vxdisk scandisks': # vxdisk list DEVICE TYPEDISK GROUPSTATUS EVA8_1 auto:cdsdiskpt_dwhdg146_01 pt_dwhdg146 online nohotuse EVA8_3

Re: [Veritas-vx] resizing a device

2007-03-29 Thread Jarkko Airaksinen
This was meant for the whole world to see (and maybe learn something from it :)). -Original Message- From: Jarkko Airaksinen Sent: jueves, 29 de marzo de 2007 18:29 To: 'Darren Dunham' Subject: RE: [Veritas-vx] resizing a device Yeah but that's already a bit tedious. Also every time you

[Veritas-vx] volume failed

2007-03-22 Thread Jarkko Airaksinen
Hello, One volume failed in a disk group just a moment ago. On hardware level everything seems quite; all the paths are ok, the SAN disk is online well and so on. No logs show a hardware failure. However now i see this: # vxdisk list DEVICE TYPEDISK GROUP

Re: [Veritas-vx] dmp + driver

2007-03-20 Thread Jarkko Airaksinen
(Solaris 8) server? Any help / ideas would be appreciated. Br, Jarkko Airaksinen From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jarkko Airaksinen Sent: lunes, 12 de marzo de 2007 19:02 To: veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re

[Veritas-vx] dmp + driver

2007-03-12 Thread Jarkko Airaksinen
Hello, As we all know the Veritas DMP can handle almost all FC SANs without using the HBA driver from the HBA provider. However our tape drive doesn't work that way. I need to install the HBA driver to be able to find the tape drives and then take backups through the FC. The adapter is a

[Veritas-vx] veritas dmp mpxio

2007-03-07 Thread Jarkko Airaksinen
conflicts? Thanks, Jarkko Airaksinen ___ Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-vx

[Veritas-vx] vxdmp found incorrect SAN type

2007-03-05 Thread Jarkko Airaksinen
and scanning disks again but the datype persists. Then I took the disk completely from the server's view from EVA, removed it from vvm and redid everything but the datype still is XP10k.. Would you have any idea why this happens and how to fix it? Thank you, Jarkko Airaksinen