Re: [Veritas-vx] cluster performance

2006-08-18 Thread Ronald S. Karr
ems like a long time. What kind of array is this? -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|[EMAIL PROTECTED] On August 17, 2006, Schipper, Mark wrote: > >While I have quite a bit of experience with VCS, VXVM and VXFSI have no >experience with CFS. So I probably can&#x

Re: [Veritas-vx] cluster performance

2006-08-21 Thread Ronald S. Karr
use direct I/O or quick I/O, does your application rely on VxFS for locking)? -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|[EMAIL PROTECTED] On August 20, 2006, Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi wrote: >We are writing to same to file by two nodes. Using one single shared disk. &

Re: [Veritas-vx] How to identify a raw volume from vxprint or any other means

2006-09-01 Thread Ronald S. Karr
if a file system is mounted on a particular volume right now. The usetype field of a volume will tell you whether the volume was created for use by file systems, based on the 'fsgen' usage type, but that is not a reliable indicator. -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|

Re: [Veritas-vx] How to identify a raw volume from vxprint or any othermeans

2006-09-05 Thread Ronald S. Karr
'active' means a volume has written to and has not been closed or unmounted since having been written. 'clean' means it has not been written to or has been unmounted or closed. -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|[EMAIL PROTECTED] On September 1, 2006,

Re: [Veritas-vx] vxvm:vxconfigd time difference?

2006-09-05 Thread Ronald S. Karr
vxconfigd just calls the standard calls to log syslog data. Is the timezone set correctly or differently when vxconfigd starts versus when syslogd starts? I would have thought that syslogd itself timestamped the messages, but that would make this output next to impossible. -- Ronald S

Re: [Veritas-vx] how to move from one dsik to other disk

2006-09-08 Thread Ronald S. Karr
vxassist mv ! This moves the volume from the first disk to the second disk. No disruption. -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|[EMAIL PROTECTED] On September 5, 2006, Prakash wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >If I have a volume which is created in onl

Re: [Veritas-vx] How to identify a raw volume from vxprint or any othermeans

2006-09-11 Thread Ronald S. Karr
x27;. That's all it really means. If Sybase closes the volume, or a file system is unmounted, the state will go from '(Active)' to '(Clean)'. You can also look for the 'open' flag. -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-vx] Exporting snap volumes to a different host.

2006-09-28 Thread Ronald S. Karr
h the snapshots? Are full snapshots okay, or are you hoping to use space-optimized snapshots? -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|[EMAIL PROTECTED] On September 28, 2006, Darren Dunham wrote: >> Question here is - Can I import the read-only volumes *ONLY* ... meaning &g

Re: [Veritas-vx] deport rootdg from boxA to boxB

2006-10-16 Thread Ronald S. Karr
ll this from memory. Since 4.0, none of this has been needed, and indeed, rootdg doesn't even really exist anymore conceptually. As a result, I cannot fully verify the sequence. -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|[EMAIL PROTECTED] On October 13, 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: [Veritas-vx] How to use 2 BCV's separate copies of the same STD on the same host

2006-10-19 Thread Ronald S. Karr
) than using the above two mechanisms. -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|[EMAIL PROTECTED] On October 19, 2006, FabioZ Zippo wrote: >Hi friends, > >I have the following situation: > >HostA has 3 STDs devices, configured in a VxVM group, containing an Oracle

Re: [Veritas-vx] disabled dg

2006-10-19 Thread Ronald S. Karr
Depending on why it is disabled, you can kill and restart vxconfigd. But, that probably won't work. It doesn't hurt anything, though, either. vxconfigd -k 2> /dev/console -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|[EMAIL PROTECTED] On October 6, 2006, Atif Munir

Re: [Veritas-vx] Pausing a relay out for several days

2006-10-20 Thread Ronald S. Karr
Relayouts are crash recoverable and reversible without concern for how long they sit around in intermediate states. Relayout could be a lot better than it is (certain intermediate failures are a bit confusing to recover from), but the question asked here is not an issue. -- Ronald S

Re: [Veritas-vx] Debugging why devices appear as "error"

2006-11-03 Thread Ronald S. Karr
within VxVM to fail. -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|[EMAIL PROTECTED] On November 3, 2006, Chris Waltham wrote: >Listers, > >I am in the slightly awkward position of co-maintaining a couple of >servers -- we have software supplied by a 3rd-part

Re: [Veritas-vx] Debugging why devices appear as "error"

2006-11-03 Thread Ronald S. Karr
a device to be really unusable? You can try running prtvtoc on it. If that prints an error, it is pretty dead, or is completely unformatted for Solaris. -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|[EMAIL PROTECTED] On November 3, 2006, Chris Waltham wrote: >On Nov 3, 2006, at

Re: [Veritas-vx] Please advise ,can we expand a rootvol

2006-11-08 Thread Ronald S. Karr
You can also mirror root to another disk, break it off, grow that copy, and reboot on the second disk. The manipulations for that are also confusing. -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|[EMAIL PROTECTED] On November 8, 2006, Darren Dunham wrote: >> Gurus, >

Re: [Veritas-vx] Debugging why devices appear as "error"

2006-11-10 Thread Ronald S. Karr
ed. I'm pretty sure I have seen it recently, perhaps it was on unlabled Solaris disks. -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|[EMAIL PROTECTED] On November 10, 2006, robertinoau wrote: >>From VM4.x onwards, devices that have not been formated for VM use will be >>

Re: [Veritas-vx] Debugging why devices appear as "error"

2006-11-10 Thread Ronald S. Karr
This probably upset the disk driver. Did you reboot? With 3par, I find myself having to reboot solaris quite frequently to get it to see changes. -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|[EMAIL PROTECTED] On November 10, 2006, Jon Stanley wrote: >On 11/10/06, Darren Dunha

Re: [Veritas-vx] building Raid10 volume using vxmake?

2006-11-30 Thread Ronald S. Karr
: vxassist make volume length layout=mirror-stripe The default choice (with layout=mirror,stripe) is to use one or the other of the two layerings more-or-less based on how big the volume is. -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|[EMAIL PROTECTED] On November 30, 2006, Hudes, Dana

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

2007-01-29 Thread Ronald S. Karr
n't there are other tools floating around to do the same thing. -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|[EMAIL PROTECTED] On January 29, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi all, > >I have a symple question for you, but not so simple for me ... >I know that is p

Re: [Veritas-vx] time of initialization, stored in diskid

2007-04-02 Thread Ronald S. Karr
The standard Unix seconds since midnight, January 1, 1970 GMT. -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|[EMAIL PROTECTED] On April 1, 2007, Dmitry Glushenok wrote: >Hello, > >Anybody knows what time is stored in diskid of VxVM disk, local or GMT? >Unfortunately c

Re: [Veritas-vx] time of initialization, stored in diskid

2007-04-02 Thread Ronald S. Karr
Indeed! -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|[EMAIL PROTECTED] On April 2, 2007, Darren Dunham wrote: >> >> Ronald S. Karr wrote: >> > The standard Unix seconds since midnight, January 1, 1970 GMT. >> >> Yes, it is. But question w

Re: [Veritas-vx] Vxvm plex resync policy

2007-04-19 Thread Ronald S. Karr
but they still have no concept of restricting data access. -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|[EMAIL PROTECTED] On April 19, 2007, Ganesh Kamath wrote: >Hi Gurus, >Had a quick question. >I presume vxvm allows continued access to data during data resync between

Re: [Veritas-vx] Usetype swap removed ?

2007-09-18 Thread Ronald S. Karr
e better. You would not have encountered this message if swap had been completely removed. The command: # vxassist -g big0 maxsize usetype=foobie results in: Maximum volume size: 147642368 (72091Mb) So, in most ways, the usage type has no effect on this command at all. -- Ronald

Re: [Veritas-vx] Time of snapshot creation

2007-09-18 Thread Ronald S. Karr
I don't know if you can do that with snapshots. You can do that with checkpoints, though: fsckptadm list /mount/point This should print a line describing the "ctime", which is the creation time of the checkpoint. -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|

Re: [Veritas-vx] Remove rootmirror disk to patch solaris os ?

2007-11-05 Thread Ronald S. Karr
vxconfigd can dynamically map the root/boot volume to use minor device 0. This would allow /dev/vx/rdsk/rootvolume to always reference the root volume, no matter which disk group it is in and no matter what volume was booted from. -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|

Re: [Veritas-vx] Disk for disk group in other disk group

2007-11-08 Thread Ronald S. Karr
commands to figure out that you have a disk 'configured' as in step 3 above is a bit harder, as it involves running some commands in /usr/lib/vxvm/diag.d in strange ways against raw disks. I hope this helps. -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Nove

Re: [Veritas-vx] Disk for disk group in other disk group

2007-11-09 Thread Ronald S. Karr
, when all your other references seem to be to datadg? -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|[EMAIL PROTECTED] On November 9, 2007, Vince wrote: >On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:43:08PM -0800, Ronald S. Karr wrote: >> Okay, this was one of the more obscure error messages that

Re: [Veritas-vx] Disk for disk group in other disk group

2007-11-09 Thread Ronald S. Karr
x27; the disk group. The various 'destroy' operations get rid of either the disk group itself or the identifiers on the disk. -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|[EMAIL PROTECTED] On November 9, 2007, Vince wrote: >On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:30:06AM -0500, Vince

Re: [Veritas-vx] vxprint header

2008-02-01 Thread Ronald S Karr
That represents an experimental "volume export" feature, which is included in the code for 5.0, but is not really a supported feature right now. It probably shouldn't be appearing at all. -- tron |-<=>-| On Feb 1, 2008, at 11:36 AM, Munish Dhawan wrote: Hi Friends, what does the row in

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

2008-02-22 Thread Ronald S Karr
VxFS offers ways using checkpoints (look at fsckptadm and fsckpt_restore) to snapshot a file system and do a complete restore of an entire file system. VxVM offers similar functionality using various techniques, including various operations within the 'vxsnap' command. --

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

2008-02-25 Thread Ronald S Karr
Checkpoints are substantially more advanced than snapshots. They are very much worth looking into. They may require more than a basic or standard VxFS license, however. -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Feb 25, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Ray Arachelian wrote

Re: [Veritas-vx] clear "failing"

2008-02-26 Thread Ronald S Karr
online Thanks! Craig -- Pablo Méndez Hernández ___ Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-vx Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2008-02-29 Thread Ronald S Karr
system automatically if you encapsulate a volume that is in use, so be careful. Don't expect any sympathy from support if this doesn't go well. -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Feb 29, 2008, at 10:06 AM, Asim Zuberi wrote: > Thanks to the

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

2008-03-02 Thread Ronald S Karr
process to accomplish this task? I'd be happy to try out the trials and share the workarounds if I get some pointers from VRTS engineers on this mailing lists. thanks! --Asim; From: Rajiv Gunja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 7:10 PM To: Ronald S Karr; Asim Z

Re: [Veritas-vx] Upgrading VxVM and VxFS on clustered nodes!

2008-03-28 Thread Ronald S Karr
able to read or understand the configuration. -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mar 28, 2008, at 10:03 AM, Hudes, Dana wrote: The vxdg upgrade is indeed irreversible. What it does is change the size of the private region, because that changed from 3.5 to 4.0.

Re: [Veritas-vx] Upgrading VxVM and VxFS on clustered nodes!

2008-03-28 Thread Ronald S Karr
at way, you can have quite a long period of time where you can still go back. -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mar 28, 2008, at 2:17 PM, A Darren Dunham wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 02:04:04PM -0700, Craig Simpson wrote: >> >> OK so bas

Re: [Veritas-vx] Upgrading VxVM and VxFS on clustered nodes!

2008-03-31 Thread Ronald S Karr
This is most likely something normal. Most likely a mirror consistency build after creating a mirrored volume, adding a mirror, or after importing a disk group. Out of curiosity, which release of VxVM did you say you were running? -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|[EMAIL PRO

Re: [Veritas-vx] vxstat data Questions

2008-04-01 Thread Ronald S Karr
On Mar 31, 2008, at 5:49 PM, Craig Simpson wrote: > The Volumes below pretty much explain their purpose. > > What I am running into is my DBA's say that they are not getting the > read/write times that I see via vxstat. > > What are "AVG TIME(ms) READ WRITE" ??? > > These mean the time it takes to

Re: [Veritas-vx] Increasing striped volume

2008-04-24 Thread Ronald S Karr
Make sure you have two or four disks that can handle the extra 30GB. Then, just use vxresize as you would with a regular volume. Stripe columns will automatically concatenate across disks, so you don't need to change from 2 columns to 4 columns to grow from 20GB to 50GB. -- Ron

Re: [Veritas-vx] max disk groups: SF4.1

2008-05-08 Thread Ronald S Karr
, so having large numbers of them will slow down booting. -- Ronald S. Karr tron |-<=>-|[EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 8, 2008, at 6:33 PM, Dave Carpe wrote: I’m not certain there is an absolute maximum number. If there is it is on the order of 65,000 but that would be on Solaris.

Re: [Veritas-vx] migrated from enclosure FAKE_ENCLR_SNO to ...

2008-11-24 Thread Ronald S Karr
Consider this a debug message that should have been removed. -- Ronald S. Karr On Nov 23, 2008, at 9:41 PM, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: > Hi all, > > I am seeing the following "NOTICE" on the console upon bootstrapping: > > "NOTICE: VxVM vxdmp V-5-3-1700 dmp

Re: [Veritas-vx] remove multiple volumes from one group

2008-12-10 Thread Ronald S Karr
vxedit -rf -g rm $(vxprint -g -nv) On Dec 9, 2008, at 12:46 PM, Jan Burdil wrote: > Hi All, > is there some simple command to remove all (for example 100) volumes > from one vx group with single command. > Something like "vxedit -g xxx rm all_volumes" > > thank you > Jan Burdil > ___

Re: [Veritas-vx] remove multiple volumes from one group

2008-12-10 Thread Ronald S Karr
eing out of SYMC, I should get a copy of SF Basic so I can verify these things. -- Ronald S. Karr On Dec 10, 2008, at 8:54 AM, Ronald S Karr wrote: > vxedit -rf -g rm $(vxprint -g -nv) > > On Dec 9, 2008, at 12:46 PM, Jan Burdil wrote: >> Hi All, >> is there some s

Re: [Veritas-vx] Veritas DMP question.

2009-01-05 Thread Ronald S Karr
The algorithm was modified to sort the names of the paths and to (where possible) use the first name. There is a flag somewhere to make the names persistent. Most people seemed less confused by the non-persistent sorting algorithm than by having stale, no-longer-used paths used for the DM