Re: [Veritas-vx] completely removing a disk from VxVM control ?

2006-09-25 Thread Doug Hughes
On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 12:11 +0200, Pascal Grostabussiat wrote: Hi, I have a sun V440 with 4 internal disks and connected to a disk-array. Now I want to mirror c1t0d0 and c1t1d0. The V440 have a hardware RAID controller that I want to use. Unfortunately the Solaris raidctl utility cannot

Re: [Veritas-vx] Please help me understanding vxprint output

2006-10-02 Thread Doug Hughes
On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 08:02 +0100, Veritas Manager wrote: Hi Experts, Please help me in understanding How to find out from the vxprint -ht command output that a particulart volume is either Mirror , or Simple Concate or Raid 5 . this is a 0+1 volume (striped and then mirrored). Notice

Re: [Veritas-vx] Please help me understanding vxprint output

2006-10-04 Thread Doug Hughes
, it wasn't properly mirrored in the first place. RLOC means it's trying to run a relocation of the failed disk. What kind of logical unit did you create in the A1000? TIA Regards New Bie Doug Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 08:02 +0100, Veritas Manager wrote

Re: [Veritas-vx] growing a VVR volume

2006-10-23 Thread Doug Hughes
On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 10:11 -0400, Paul Keating wrote: Just installed a bunch of extra disks in a pair of my V880s. Currently replicating a volume with VVR, and would like to extend thevolume. Currently a 68 gig volume on a pair of 72Gig disks on the primarybackplane, as well as a 20Gig SRL

Re: [Veritas-vx] encapsulation if there is no free space

2006-12-01 Thread Doug Hughes
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 16:22 +0200, Asiye Yiğit wrote: Hi All, we are using EMC as a storage. The size of data is very huge. It is approximately 4TB. We will implement SF HA in our environment. we are using disks as block devices. I mean they are not under the control of VxVM. However, for VCS

Re: [Veritas-vx] encapsulation if there is no free space

2006-12-01 Thread Doug Hughes
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 09:42 -0800, Schipper, Mark wrote:  AlrightI would not recommend trying this (yet), but I want to float this by this list for feedback. You *may* be able to: - install Solaris Volume Manager (used to be called DiskSuite) - create some state database replicas on

[Veritas-vx] spam to list

2006-12-11 Thread Doug Hughes
I've eliminated last week's and today's spam from archives and put some extra filters on the lists to help prevent. The spammers managed to either 1) impersonate legit people on the list or 2) get their spam bots to figure out how to subscribe to lists, verify the subscription, and then make

Re: [Veritas-vx] ?????? Re: Layered volume: 2 sub-volumes of 3 are disabled, why the volume(STRIPE) is still enabled and active ???

2006-12-21 Thread Doug Hughes
On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 15:30 +0800, kaiyi wang wrote: Hi Doug, Thanks for your reply... Still I have one question How do you know the volume is unusable already??? In other words, if it's unusable, why it is enabled and active in the output of vxprint

Re: [Veritas-vx] getting SAN disks online for solaris

2006-12-22 Thread Doug Hughes
On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 09:26 -0800, Ed S. Peschko wrote: hey all, We are having a great difficulty getting veritas disks online here, and I was hoping that some of you might have good pointers. First of all, is there a FAQ out there for vxfs and veritas in general? I searched the

Re: [Veritas-vx] getting SAN disks online for solaris

2006-12-22 Thread Doug Hughes
On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 10:33 -0800, Ed S. Peschko wrote: df -k shows you filesystems. vxdisk list shows you raw disk devices. it goes something like this. raw disk (or LUN) gets turned into a vmdisk (vxdisk list) vmdisks get carved up and turned into volumes filesystems get created

Re: [Veritas-vx] Move a single volume to another diskgroup

2007-01-30 Thread Doug Hughes
Gummadidala, Ramu (GE, Corporate, consultant) wrote: Ronald - I guess 'vxdg mv' requires an additional licenses ? It requires FlashSnap. (which adds another kind of log to keep track of detached mirrors to enable fast resynch, as well as enabling moving of disks between diskgroups)

Re: [Veritas-vx] resizing a device

2007-04-12 Thread Doug Hughes
Jarkko Airaksinen wrote: 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

Re: [Veritas-vx] Encapsulated Boot Disk Question

2007-04-19 Thread Doug Hughes
Fred Butler wrote: Experts, I ran into the following error this past weekend after performing an upgrade. Here is what I did: 1)I had to upgrade a system from Solaris 9 to Solaris 10 Update 2 (06/06 Relaese) 2)The root disk was encapsulated and mirrored so I pulled

Re: [Veritas-vx] How to setup 500gb as one file system in solaris 9

2007-04-23 Thread Doug Hughes
milind phanse wrote: Hi All, I have solaris 9 server with Veritas file system.The server is having external EMC storage( DMX 300 ) with 500gb space. I want to have 500gb to be set up as one file system. Can you help me doing this. It's very easy, really. Create the Logical unit on

Re: [Veritas-vx] Mirroring storage

2007-06-20 Thread Doug Hughes
indeed. to summarize: if you have veritas foundation enterprise you should have a VVR license, and if not, it's an extra add-on. (from memory) robertinoau wrote: Since you got VM, use Veritas Volume Replicator. You might need to get a license key to enable it though. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-vx] un-encapsulate VxVM

2007-06-21 Thread Doug Hughes
Paul Hunter wrote: Is it possible/recommended to un-encapsulate boot drives in Solaris? Can it be done without data loss? yes, and yes. it has been a practice for many years. (You do have to reboot though) see: http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0800/vxvmref.pdf

Re: [Veritas-vx] Resize problem

2007-06-27 Thread Doug Hughes
Khurram Tariq wrote: Hi All, I have a 201GB volume which is composed of two LUNs (40GB 200GB). Now I want to free up the 40GB LUN from that volume by shrinking the volume to 198GB but vxresize is giving me the following error: UX:vxfs fsadm: ERROR: V-3-20343: cannot shrink

Re: [Veritas-vx] Veritas File System

2007-07-10 Thread Doug Hughes
Paul Hunter wrote: How do you know if a volume is under Veritas Filesystem control? run the fstyp (no e) utility on the device. ___ Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-vx] Veritas File System

2007-07-11 Thread Doug Hughes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 09:21:54AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi , Could any one advise me, what are parameters should recommended for oracle DB VxFs filesystems in order to achieve best performance? I asked similar question last year. Look into

Re: [Veritas-vx] Increase filesystem size

2007-07-24 Thread Doug Hughes
Jaehne, Richard S wrote: Actually, our layout is RAID 0+1. All we want to is add the extra capacity of 2 disks per mirror by growing the filesystem. There is only one filesystem on the RAID. Thanks, In that case, (as long as you aren't adding in a hidden layer of LUN redirection in

Re: [Veritas-vx] Stripe volume question

2007-07-25 Thread Doug Hughes
Munish Dhawan wrote: Hi Friends, I have one DG having one volume which is a stripe of 13 disks ( single plex). Now vxassist -g dgname maxsize says No volume can't be made from these constraints. vxdg -g dgname free shows in length column of all 13 disks of value 128 blocks 1)

Re: [Veritas-vx] Stripe volume question

2007-07-26 Thread Doug Hughes
Amit Srivastava wrote: Hi, 1) Perhaps ur all the 13disks are utilised in forming that single plex that's why u thre is no space showing in the dg . 2) To resize ur volume u need to add the same number of disks equal to ur number of columns this means u have to add

Re: [Veritas-vx] query

2007-08-03 Thread Doug Hughes
bharat rohera wrote: Hi , Steps for breaking rootdg mirroring. needs to install patch so wants to break mirror and after completion of activies remirror the same Regards Bharat Rohera recommended solution: pull the disk.. yes, don't do anything before hand, just physically pull

Re: [Veritas-vx] VxVM 4.1, mirroring issue

2007-12-01 Thread Doug Hughes
Rajinder Bhalla wrote: Hi Gurus, I have a small problem for which I need your help. My requirement is to copy data from one server A to a new server B but I have to do it only through Veritas VxVM mirroring. The disks from server B are dual zoned with server A. I have mirrored

Re: [Veritas-vx] Both Root plexes off line cannot boot.

2007-12-07 Thread Doug Hughes
Chavez, James R. wrote: Hello all, I have what I consider a dire problem. Perhaps you can help me out. The hardware layout is An enterprise 3000 Sun server connected to 2 SSA114 arrays through Fiber Channels. The situation is that the fiber channels both failed and went offline at the

Re: [Veritas-vx] Realigning sub-disks

2008-02-19 Thread Doug Hughes
Denton, Sam wrote: We've noticed that some of the storage for one of our servers is not configured according to our site's best practices. Specifically, two different logical volumes (db1 and db3) are sharing one VM disk (altair-emc09, aka /dev/dsk/c6t0d30s2). Would it be possible to remove

Re: [Veritas-vx] replace encapsulated root disk

2008-02-20 Thread Doug Hughes
Neil Swallow wrote: Hello, Having lost an encapsulated root disk (called rootdisk) running vxvm 3.5 on solaris 2.6, and kept the server running on the mirror (normal vx initialized disk) I can't now use vxdiskadm to replace the disk. When I go to replace it, it insists that the public

Re: [Veritas-vx] Multiple rootdisks?

2008-02-22 Thread Doug Hughes
Craig Simpson wrote: Has anyone used more then just 2 disks to mirror rootdg? Because I have to do some odd migration stuff, I want to have 3 rootdisks. rootdisk, rootmirror, and rootraidmirror. Just wondering if rootdg should only be mirrored by 2 disks, or if more then that is OK. more

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

2008-02-22 Thread Doug Hughes
Ray Arachelian wrote: I wonder if it's possible to use snapshots to undo changes to a file system without having to copy everything back? I'm not too familiar with what snapshots can do in VXFS, so that's why I'm asking... in VxFS, you can use the 'checkpoint' capability to do exactly

Re: [Veritas-vx] Realigning sub-disks

2008-02-22 Thread Doug Hughes
Denton, Sam wrote: Doug Hughes wrote: Denton, Sam wrote: Disk Group: datadg Volume: db1 Plex: db1-01 Sub-disk: c6t0d69-01 (16gb, leave alone) Sub-disk: c6t0d70-01 (8gb, expand to 16gb) Volume: db3 Plex: db3-01 Sub-disk: c6t0d70-02 (8gb, remove

Re: [Veritas-vx] You can be lucky

2008-02-26 Thread Doug Hughes
Robinson, Greg wrote: Hi all, We had a server crash today (a T2000 - Solaris 10, vxvm 4.1 with some patches). The root disk did not survive, and so we had to rebuild the server. It wasn't mirrored either - long story involving iSCSI The server was still zoned to the SAN disks (about

Re: [Veritas-vx] Error trying to import rootdg due to stale root plexes.

2008-02-29 Thread Doug Hughes
Chavez, James R. wrote: Hello, I have a problem that I hope the group can help me with. Here is a refresher for my original problem. First both fibre channels went out on my arrays causing both root plexes to be stale. I also must mention that the controller WWN changed on the array so I

Re: [Veritas-vx] Help replacing disks and resyncing plexes.

2008-03-10 Thread Doug Hughes
Chavez, James R. wrote: Hello all, Thank you in advance for your help. OS = Solaris 5.5 Volume manager version = 2.5 I have a question regarding the below volume. I have a 5 column striped volume. There are 2 plexes with one being perfectly fine and one having 2 failed disks. I don't want

Re: [Veritas-vx] VVR - inconsistent cant_sync fail

2008-03-11 Thread Doug Hughes
Ganesh Persaud/SYS/NYTIMES wrote: Hi All, VVR secondary host lost storage connectivity causing VVR primary host replication to fail. see the flags below. The question is does this need a full resync? flags:write enabled attached inconsistent cant_sync fail connected asynchronous

Re: [Veritas-vx] Q About DRL Log Recovery

2008-03-14 Thread Doug Hughes
Paul Liong wrote: Hi Doug Hughes, Thanks for your update. However, I just wonder if we could change the log plex state using 'vxmend' to perform the recovery. Thanks Regards Paul I don't think so, but it's been a while. you can do the remove and re-add totally online without taking

Re: [Veritas-vx] vxfs filesystem full - can not expand.

2008-03-15 Thread Doug Hughes
Sengor wrote: Hi colleagues, Recently we've had a situation where a mounted vxfs filesystem was @ 100% usage (no free space) on Solaris 9, SF5. So we thought great we'll go and increase the volume the filesystem and be done with it. To our unpleasant surprise fsadm returned error saying

Re: [Veritas-vx] Help reading vxprint output - beginners questions

2008-08-25 Thread Doug Hughes
Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy wrote: Dear Guru's, Couple of questions about the striped-mirror volume below: 1. Why the volume size ( 20971520 ) doesn't match the size of any of the plexes ( 20974356 and 20977888 ) ? 2. Why the sizes of 2 plexes don't match ( 20974356 and 20977888 ) ? 3. Why

Re: [Veritas-vx] Reattach a detached plex question.

2008-10-05 Thread Doug Hughes
Chavez, James R. wrote: Hello Doug and list. I have a rather easy one for you guys. Solaris 5.5.1 Sun Enterprise Volume Manager 2.5. Here is the volume in question. Plex db2-02 is detached due to an io failure for sub disk may05-d3-01 or c5t48d0. The messages log hasn't had any errors

Re: [Veritas-vx] rename vm objects

2008-10-11 Thread Doug Hughes
Munish Dhawan wrote: Hi Friends, is there any short quick way except vxedit command to rename the VM obects ? basically why iam concerned for this is if i have no of VM objects which i want to rename, is there a way i can edit the vxvm conf file and dump that configuration so that new

Re: [Veritas-vx] Grow a filesystem on an existing volume

2008-10-14 Thread Doug Hughes
Hazel, Geoff wrote: This has got to be simple but in all the years I've worked with Veritas I've never done it. Never needed to until now. I have two systems that are twins to each other. The vxprint -ht outputs are identical. They both have volumes configured to 10gb. One of them has a

Re: [Veritas-vx] Grow a filesystem on an existing volume

2008-10-15 Thread Doug Hughes
Balu manyam wrote: As David said, fsadm is the direct way. Another way is to use vxresize to resize the volume and the filesystem at once. (it calls fsadm under the hood). you'll probably like vxresize when you need to change things as it simplifies your life and is

Re: [Veritas-vx] Fwd: vxunreloc for veritas 2.4

2008-10-19 Thread Doug Hughes
following the top posting.. to use vxsd mv, you must first make the subdisk on the destination by hand using vxmake. something like vxmake -g tooldwnld-dg sd disk24-01 dm_name=disk24 dm_offset=0 len = 17678493 vxsd -o rm mv d012-01 disk24-01 (this last operation will take a long time) Check

Re: [Veritas-vx] Query 1

2009-02-02 Thread Doug Hughes
i man wrote: All, I plan to decomission one node which has a VCS and some disks assigned to VXFS. The node has to be removed from VCS and then reinstall the OS on the system. VXFS has some disks coming from EMC SAN. Do I need to remove the disks from the VXFS before I reinstall the OS

Re: [Veritas-vx] RHEL 16TB LUN Limit and VxFS ?

2009-05-04 Thread Doug Hughes
-Original Message- From: veritas-vx-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-vx-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jon Stanley Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 3:51 PM To: Wilkinson, Alex Cc: veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-vx] RHEL 16TB LUN

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

2009-05-13 Thread Doug Hughes
Wilkinson, Alex wrote: Hi all, I have a LUN that I need to expand via vxresize #df -h . FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/vx/dsk/RDL_DG/VOL01 17T 8.7G 16T 1% /export I found the exact free space available via: #vxdg -g

Re: [Veritas-vx] Can I increse /opt partition under veritas

2010-04-03 Thread Doug Hughes
Hudes, Dana wrote: having /opt as a separate filesystem isn't supported by Solaris. You can have stuff under /opt (e.g. /opt/coolstack) as a separate filesystem but putting /opt separate will cause problems. This isn't theoretical. I tried the same thing and it worked for awhile then it

Re: [Veritas-vx] add column disk on striping volume

2010-08-23 Thread Doug Hughes
Thomas Graham wrote: Dear All, I want to perform adding column disk to existing 500GB x 2 striping volume, here is the questions: 1. if they are stripping, do I need to add it in one pair? 2. what is the steps before apply vxassist -g diskgroup relayout volume ncol=+2 ? 3. how could VxVM

Re: [Veritas-vx] Linux: lvm versus Veritas VxVM?

2010-08-28 Thread Doug Hughes
Jon Price wrote: Hi, How does Linux lvm compare with Veritas VxVM for Linux? Or pointers to existing comparisons or helpful docs about this? Not so well in terms of features, but better in terms of widespread use. * in vxvm lets you do everything from raid-0 to raid-6. lvm doesn't