Re: [Veritas-vx] Usetype swap removed ?

2007-09-18 Thread A Darren Dunham
to be there in general. Not sure if 4.0 has a bug associated with it. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOShttp://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area

Re: [Veritas-vx] Vxdisk list showing LUNs on 2 paths

2007-09-19 Thread A Darren Dunham
--online invalid EMC0_2 auto:none --error EMC0_2 auto--error [snip] Do you have the necessary ASLs for the storage installed? -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior

Re: [Veritas-vx] Reclaim volumes from failed backup.

2007-10-03 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:19:18PM +, A Darren Dunham wrote: I have a very large backup that failed. This one image spanned several volumes. When I look, I see the last volume it used got cleaned up by a bpexpdate -deassignempty, but the ones written to (and filled) earlier did

Re: [Veritas-vx] Help ... vx volume is corrupted and doesn't accept fsck command

2007-10-04 Thread A Darren Dunham
of the volume and plex is ACTIVE ENABLED Right. The volume is probably fine (otherwise you'd get read errors from fsck). -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOShttp://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper

Re: [Veritas-vx] How to encapsulate a root disk already under Veritas VM (SF 5.0):? Weird problem

2007-10-10 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:23:29PM +0530, Arjun koneru wrote: if the slices 3 and 4 of your bootdisk are not used for anything - zero them out using format , run vxdctl enable and try the encap again. Probably not a bad idea. But remove the disk from the diskgroup first. -- Darren Dunham

Re: [Veritas-vx] How I tell VM to try to use plex labeled as IOFAIL? DISABLED FAILED on both plexes

2007-11-13 Thread A Darren Dunham
reattach them. I think at this point you can start the volume just by running vxvol start with the 'force' option. Or you can examine the plexes independently (by attaching thme to their own volumes), make sure one looks good, then sync with that one. -- Darren Dunham

Re: [Veritas-vx] vxresize with volume of type gen

2007-12-12 Thread A Darren Dunham
of 'vxresize'. Use fsadm to shrink the filesystem first, then use vxassist to shrink the volume. I think all 'fsgen' does here is give a hint that the filesystem should be flushed before shrinking the volume, so there shouldn't be a big problem with using 'vxresize'. -- Darren Dunham

Re: [Veritas-vx] vxdisk list shows disk in error status

2008-01-23 Thread A Darren Dunham
data on it. That will remove the VxVM partition setup on it. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOShttp://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area

Re: [Veritas-vx] vxdisk list shows disk in error status

2008-01-23 Thread A Darren Dunham
t8 c1t8d0s2 auto:none --online invalid -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOShttp://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area

Re: [Veritas-vx] replace encapsulated root disk

2008-02-20 Thread A Darren Dunham
for other filesystems if you want via 'vxmksdpart' as well (assuming you have free slice numbers). -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOShttp://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San

Re: [Veritas-vx] command to see what drive booted a Sun/Solaris

2008-02-21 Thread A Darren Dunham
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Re: [Veritas-vx] remove failed was:c1t1d0s2

2008-02-22 Thread A Darren Dunham
c1t1d0s2 auto:cdsdiskoradata_disk_01 oradata online -- rootmirror rootdg failed was:c1t1d0s2 Remove the disk from the diskgroup. vxdg -g rootdg rm rootmirror. If there are no objects on the disk, it should succeed. -- Darren Dunham

Re: [Veritas-vx] remove failed was:c1t1d0s2

2008-02-22 Thread A Darren Dunham
interpreted it, he no longer is going to have a mirrored root). -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOShttp://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area

Re: [Veritas-vx] Realigning sub-disks

2008-02-22 Thread A Darren Dunham
behavior, but you can't do it in one step (at least not online with data present in the plex). -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOShttp://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San

Re: [Veritas-vx] VFS snapshots as a way to undo changes?

2008-02-22 Thread A Darren Dunham
probably don't have all that many files. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOShttp://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area This line left intentionally

Re: [Veritas-vx] encapsulation requires a reboot - why?

2008-03-02 Thread A Darren Dunham
would normally expect to create a volume and install the zone onto it with no need to encapsulate anything. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOShttp://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper

Re: [Veritas-vx] vxstat read write time question

2008-03-05 Thread A Darren Dunham
be contending with all the writes. Whether those are good or bad numbers depend on what you've purchased to produce them, and what your expectations are on the application. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOS

Re: [Veritas-vx] relayout question?

2008-03-13 Thread A Darren Dunham
explain me on how to calculate the minimum free block requirements for the relayout process. I can't guarantee that it's all correct, but there's a technote on requirements from the Symantec site. http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/248062.htm -- Darren Dunham

Re: [Veritas-vx] Veritas-vx Digest, Vol 24, Issue 10

2008-04-10 Thread A Darren Dunham
of the data, written on the disk. Indicates from 0 to 70703616 are the used blocks. Ah, but this is the free command. It should be reporting free blocks and their extent, not used blocks. It shouldn't be showing anything that is allocated to a subdisk. -- Darren Dunham

Re: [Veritas-vx] Increasing striped volume

2008-04-24 Thread A Darren Dunham
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Re: [Veritas-vx] Encapsulation turns of logging on rootvol and swapvol?

2008-05-14 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 03:09:27PM -0500, Asim Zuberi wrote: Just recently we observed, during the encapsulation of the rootdrive process the OS native logging option for / and swap is getting turned off. Even though, during the OS install the logging option was explicitly set. Well, swap

Re: [Veritas-vx] Moving Volumes to a new diskgroup

2008-05-19 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 02:09:59PM -0400, Chuck Sedlacko wrote: Thanks for your help! You were correct on both suggestions. Shrinking the disk group to a multiple of 16 (in sectors) allowed me to complete the implementation to move it to the new disk group. Yay! Glad it worked. Thanks for

Re: [Veritas-vx] Stripe on stripe

2008-08-12 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:54:43AM -0500, Barton Wold wrote: I recently changed jobs and have found that my new place uses Veritas striped volumes that go to a hardware array that is stripe/mirror'd. There are a lot of smart people here who have done benchmark testing to confirm that this is

Re: [Veritas-vx] Disk Group import failed: Disk group exists and is imported

2008-08-14 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 02:14:16PM -0400, Romeo Theriault wrote: /etc/vx/diag.d/vxprivutil -D set /dev/rdsk/c2t500A098186E7C997d83s3 dgid=newid_number /etc/vx/diag.d/vxprivutil -D set /dev/rdsk/c2t500A098186E7C997d83s3 diskid=newid_number I'm not certain that that is sufficient. It could

Re: [Veritas-vx] How to split a multi-plex volume?

2008-12-10 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:51:11AM -0800, Hazel, Geoff wrote: I have a server I inherited with /export/home at 7GB, with 1.5GB free. Now, it shows up in vxprint like this: v home -ENABLED ACTIVE 14363112 SELECT- fsgen pl home-01 home ENABLED

Re: [Veritas-vx] How to remove subdisk from concat volume and preserve data

2009-03-25 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:47:33AM +0800, ssloh wrote: Hi folks, I would like to take out one disk from a concat volume with 3 subdisks and want to preserve the data, vxprint as following. v exp -ENABLED ACTIVE 87166976 SELECT- fsgen pl exp-01

Re: [Veritas-vx] Help: remove disk from a diskgroup and give back to SAN

2009-03-25 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 08:56:49AM -0700, Mike Li wrote: What will be involved to remove c4t2d14s2 from the appldba diskgroup and vm to give back to EMC SAN? Backup DB to tape. stop DB. Unmount filesystems for vol03, vol07,vol08 vxassist -g appldba move vol03 !c4t2d14 vxassist -g appldba

Re: [Veritas-vx] root disk mirroring

2009-04-20 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:39:02AM -0700, Victor Engle -X (viengle - Insight Global at Cisco) wrote: Can someone direct me to a document with a good explanation of root disk mirroring and recovery with veritas vxvm 4.1 for Solaris? I have an encapsulated root disk with a mirror. I think I have

Re: [Veritas-vx] vxresize - but df(1) doesn't see new space ... ?

2009-05-13 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:42:43AM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: Hi all, I have a LUN that I need to expand via vxresize vxresize expands volumes and filesystems, not LUNs. Do you have a volume that is on a LUN that you already expanded? #df -h . FilesystemSize Used Avail

Re: [Veritas-vx] ZFS to VxFS

2010-01-27 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:34:46PM +0200, Asiye Yigit wrote: Hello All; Is there any way to convert ZFS to VxFS? Not in-place. You need to pick it up and move it. UFS and VxFS have a lot of differences, but compared to ZFS they're practically identical twins. Writing a converter would be a

Re: [Veritas-vx] ZFS to VxFS

2010-02-03 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 05:45:09PM -0500, Hudes, Dana wrote: Future release of whose? I can't see Veritas/symantec putting effort into migrating away from vxfs+vxvm. Now, I could see Larry Ellison putting money into anything to take business away from any and every other company so perhaps

Re: [Veritas-vx] Migrating volumes on windows servers [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-03-16 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 03:53:40PM +1030, Robinson, Greg wrote: I mirrored the data in the normal way, broke the mirror, removed the disks from the disk group (and this is where I think windows vxvm got the better of me), and tried to import the disks and create a new disk group out of them

Re: [Veritas-vx] Mirroring issue, while using multiple disks coming from different location

2010-10-12 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 03:58:47PM +0530, Mohd Aslam wrote: Is there some way I can define that while mirroring, plex data01-02 used 33GB space from disk02 and rest 50GB space from disk04. Instead of: # vxplex -g datadg -o rm dis data01-02 # vxresize -F vxfs -x -g datadg data01 +50g disk03 #

Re: [Veritas-vx] vxdisk init a single disk slice ?

2011-04-28 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:39:07AM -0400, William Havey wrote: I'm curious as to the purpose of putting a slice in a disk group. Why do it? I know it was a work-around for rootdg requirements. But that's long gone. *production* purpose? Don't know. But I used it all the time for testing

Re: [Veritas-vx] RAID-5 LOGGING

2011-05-09 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 07:07:26PM +0300, Asiye Yigit wrote: Hello all; ?t is recommended to add raid-5 log device to the volume to recover the correct data in any case including system crash. However, I am trying to understand how the data and parity changes are logged here? Do you