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

2008-03-31 Thread Craig Simpson
(540-480BC) From: Ronald S Karr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 9:33 AM To: Craig Simpson Cc: Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-vx] Upgrading VxVM and VxFS on clustered nodes! This is most likely something normal. Most likel

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 PROTECTED]

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

2008-03-30 Thread Craig Simpson
I notice this running on one of my servers, but am not sure what it is? What does this mean? Should I care? Server is up and happy. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root#ps -ef |grep vxvol root 26070 799 0 06:52:45 ?0:00 /usr/lib/vxvm/type/fsgen/vxvol -U fsgen -g 1161384358.15.orarac03 -o iosi

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

2008-03-28 Thread Ronald S Karr
You can run in down-graded disk groups for extended periods of time, if you just want to make sure that the release works for you. In most cases, we don't do a lot of version-dependent emulation, so if a feature works in the down graded disk group, it is very unlikely to break just because

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

2008-03-28 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 02:04:04PM -0700, Craig Simpson wrote: > > OK so basically have your tapes ready just in case. *always* a good idea. But I've never heard of a vxdg upgrade having problems before. But it does make the diskgroup non-importable on older versions that can't deal with versi

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

2008-03-28 Thread Hudes, Dana
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 1:56 PM To: Ronald S Karr; Hudes, Dana Cc: Asim Zuberi; Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-vx] Upgrading VxVM and VxFS on clustered nodes! So a rollback would be possible after vxdg upgrade, if Volume management was not changed

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

2008-03-28 Thread Craig Simpson
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of A Darren Dunham Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 1:42 PM To: Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-vx] Upgrading VxVM and VxFS on clustered nodes! On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:56:18AM -0700, Craig Simpson wrote: > > So a rollback would be possible after

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

2008-03-28 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:56:18AM -0700, Craig Simpson wrote: > > So a rollback would be possible after vxdg upgrade, if Volume management > was not changed? > > Volume management since the upgrade would be messed up, but not anything > prior if it was not changed? No. You can't do a downgrad

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

2008-03-28 Thread Craig Simpson
Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-vx] Upgrading VxVM and VxFS on clustered nodes! I am pretty sure that an upgrade doesn't change the size of the private region. Also, VxVM has always supported the larger private regions used in 4.0 and now 5.0. We just created

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

2008-03-28 Thread Ronald S Karr
-Original Message- From: Craig Simpson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 12:10 PM To: Hudes, Dana; Asim Zuberi; Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-vx] Upgrading VxVM and VxFS on clustered nodes! Make sure you have mirrored rootdg and can back out if n

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

2008-03-28 Thread Hudes, Dana
as-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-vx] Upgrading VxVM and VxFS on clustered nodes! Make sure you have mirrored rootdg and can back out if needed. 100% of this upgrade is a good back out plan. IF you don't have mirrored rootdisks, then DD the drives. If you are not 100% SURE you can back

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

2008-03-28 Thread Craig Simpson
m Zuberi; Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-vx] Upgrading VxVM and VxFS on clustered nodes! VCS is part of Storage Foundation, the HA part. It relies on VxVM and VxFS. Even if you could get away with 'just' upgrading those two packages you would have lots of odd things goi

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

2008-03-28 Thread Hudes, Dana
VCS is part of Storage Foundation, the HA part. It relies on VxVM and VxFS. Even if you could get away with 'just' upgrading those two packages you would have lots of odd things going on. For example, the GUI is now VEA not VMSA. The latter won't work with v5. My recommendation is that you take t