[Veritas-vx] hp_ux VxVM errors
Hi All, My name is Adrian and I have some problems with a HP_UX rp7xxx system together with a HP Storageworks MSA30. I use VxVM on the server and on the storage. The ideea is that I cannot see the status of the volumes from the commands # vxdisk list # vxdg list # vxprint –ht I attached for you the configuration of the system and the output of the commands. There are 2 volumes in one group on the array and the volumes are mounted and the data is available. I tried to restart the vxconfigd -k but you have bellow the output: vasstat1:/opt/output/daily_stats# vxconfigd -k V-5-1-0 vxvm:vxconfigd: NOTICE: Generating /etc/ vx/array.info VxVM vxconfigd ERROR V-5-1-1589 enable failed: Volboot file not loaded transactions are disabled. vasstat1:/opt/output/daily_stats# vxdisk list DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS vasstat1:/opt/output/daily_stats# vasstat1:/opt/output/daily_stats# vasstat1:/opt/output/daily_stats# vasstat1:/opt/output/daily_stats# vxdisk list DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS vasstat1:/opt/output/daily_stats# vxdg list NAME STATE ID vasstat1:/opt/output/daily_stats# vxprint -ht VxVM vxprint ERROR V-5-1-684 IPC failure: Configuration daemon is not accessible I'll apperciate if you can tell me some possibilities to fix the problems. Adrian. 1) ioscan -fn Class I H/W PathDriverS/W State H/W Type Description == root0 root CLAIMED BUS_NEXUS cell0 1 cell CLAIMED BUS_NEXUS ioa 0 1/0 sba CLAIMED BUS_NEXUSSystem Bus Adapter (805) ba 0 1/0/0 lba CLAIMED BUS_NEXUSLocal PCI Bus Adapter (782) tty 0 1/0/0/0/0 asio0 CLAIMED INTERFACEPCI SimpleComm (103c1290) /dev/diag/mux0 /dev/hpgps1 /dev/mux0 /dev/tty0p0 tty 1 1/0/0/0/1 asio0 CLAIMED INTERFACEPCI Serial (103c1048) /dev/GSPdiag1 /dev/GSPdiag2 /dev/diag/mux1 /dev/mux1 /dev/tty1p0 /dev/tty1p2 /dev/tty1p4 ext_bus 0 1/0/0/3/0 c8xx CLAIMED INTERFACESCSI C1010 Ultra160 Wide LVD A6793-60001 target 4 1/0/0/3/0.6 tgt CLAIMED DEVICE disk1 1/0/0/3/0.6.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP 36.4GST336754LC /dev/dsk/c0t6d0 /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0 target 5 1/0/0/3/0.7 tgt CLAIMED DEVICE ctl 2 1/0/0/3/0.7.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE Initiator /dev/rscsi/c0t7d0 ext_bus 1 1/0/0/3/1 c8xx CLAIMED INTERFACESCSI C1010 Ultra Wide Single-Ended A6793-60001 target 2 1/0/0/3/1.2 tgt CLAIMED DEVICE disk0 1/0/0/3/1.2.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE _NEC DVD_RW ND-3540A /dev/dsk/c1t2d0 /dev/rdsk/c1t2d0 target 6 1/0/0/3/1.7 tgt CLAIMED DEVICE ctl 3 1/0/0/3/1.7.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE Initiator /dev/rscsi/c1t7d0 ba 1 1/0/1 lba CLAIMED BUS_NEXUSLocal PCI-X Bus Adapter (783) ba 2 1/0/1/1/0 PCItoPCI CLAIMED BUS_NEXUSPCItoPCI Bridge ext_bus 2 1/0/1/1/0/1/0 c8xx CLAIMED INTERFACESCSI C1010 Ultra160 Wide LVD target 9 1/0/1/1/0/1/0.7tgt CLAIMED DEVICE ctl 5 1/0/1/1/0/1/0.7.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE Initiator /dev/rscsi/c2t7d0 ext_bus 3 1/0/1/1/0/1/1 c8xx CLAIMED INTERFACESCSI C1010 Ultra160 Wide LVD target 7 1/0/1/1/0/1/1.6tgt CLAIMED DEVICE disk2 1/0/1/1/0/1/1.6.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP 36.4GST336754LC /dev/dsk/c3t6d0 /dev/rdsk/c3t6d0 target 8 1/0/1/1/0/1/1.7tgt CLAIMED DEVICE ctl 4 1/0/1/1/0/1/1.7.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE Initiator /dev/rscsi/c3t7d0 lan 0 1/0/1/1/0/4/0 igelanCLAIMED INTERFACEHP A6794-60001 PCI 1000Base-T ba 3 1/0/2 lba CLAIMED BUS_NEXUSLocal PCI-X Bus Adapter (783) ba 4 1/0/2/1/0 PCItoPCI CLAIMED BUS_NEXUSPCItoPCI Bridge lan 1 1/0/2/1/0/4/0 ietherCLAIMED INTERFACEHP AB545-60001 PCI/PCI-X 1000Base-T 4-port 1000B-T Adapter lan 2 1/0/2/1/0/4/1 ietherCLAIMED INTERFACEHP AB545-60001 PCI/PCI-X 1000Base-T 4-port 1000B-T Adapter lan 3 1/0/2/1/0/6/0 ietherCLAIMED INTERFACEHP AB545-60001 PCI/PCI-X 1000Base-T 4-port 1000B-T Adapter lan 4 1/0/2/1/0/6/1 ietherCLAIMED INTERFACEHP AB545-60001 PCI/PCI-X 1000Bas
[Veritas-vx] VxFS 5.0 on AIX 5.3
Hello all! I want to install VxFS 5.x (or 4.x) on AIX 5.3 ML5. Has anybody seen any problems with VxFS on AIX ? I'm going to use VxVM volumes. Regards, Pavel___ Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-vx
Re: [Veritas-vx] hp_ux VxVM errors
Hi Adrian Which is the version of SF? Do you have the bootdisk under vxvm?? In /etc/vx there is the file volboot?? Maybe you have to re-create the volboot .this tech note can help you. http://support.veritas.com/docs/250360 -- Andrea Cena Senior Solution Specialist - Storage & Availability > SORINT __ Mobile: +39.335.1295330 Phone: +39.011.4334099 Fax:+39.035.697590 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PERSONALE E CONFIDENZIALE. Questa mail potrebbe includere materiale confidenziale, proprietario o altrimenti privato per l'uso esclusivo del destinatario. Se l'avete ricevuto per errore, siete pregati di contattare chi ha inviato il messaggio e di cancellarne tutte le copie. Ogni altro uso da parte vostra del messaggio è proibito. PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL. This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete all the copies. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited. Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=_Part_86311_31543183.1163594908948" --=_Part_86311_31543183.1163594908948 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi All, My name is Adrian and I have some problems with a HP_UX rp7xxx system together with a HP Storageworks MSA30. I use VxVM on the server and on the storage. The ideea is that I cannot see the status of the volumes from the commands # vxdisk list # vxdg list # vxprint –ht I attached for you the configuration of the system and the output of the commands. There are 2 volumes in one group on the array and the volumes are mounted and the data is available. I tried to restart the vxconfigd -k but you have bellow the output: vasstat1:/opt/output/daily_stats# vxconfigd -k V-5-1-0 vxvm:vxconfigd: NOTICE: Generating /etc/ vx/array.info VxVM vxconfigd ERROR V-5-1-1589 enable failed: Volboot file not loaded transactions are disabled. vasstat1:/opt/output/daily_stats# vxdisk list DEVICE TYPEDISK GROUPSTATUS vasstat1:/opt/output/daily_stats# vasstat1:/opt/output/daily_stats# vasstat1:/opt/output/daily_stats# vasstat1:/opt/output/daily_stats# vxdisk list DEVICE TYPEDISK GROUPSTATUS vasstat1:/opt/output/daily_stats# vxdg list NAME STATE ID vasstat1:/opt/output/daily_stats# vxprint -ht VxVM vxprint ERROR V-5-1-684 IPC failure: Configuration daemon is not accessible I'll apperciate if you can tell me some possibilities to fix the problems. Adrian. --=_Part_86311_31543183.1163594908948 Content-Type: text/html; charset=WINDOWS-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi All, My name is Adrian and I have some problems with a HP_UX rp7xxx system together with a HP Storageworks MSA30. I use VxVM on the server and on the storage. The ideea is that I cannot see the status of the volumes from the commands # vxdisk list # vxdg list # vxprint –ht I attached for you the configuration of the system and the output of the commands. There are 2 volumes in one group on the array and the volumes are mounted and the data is available. I tried to restart the vxconfigd -k but you have bellow the output: vasstat1:/opt/output/daily_stats# vxconfigd -k V-5-1-0 vxvm:vxconfigd: NOTICE: Generating /etc/ vx/array.info VxVM vxconfigd ERROR V-5-1-1589 enable failed: Volboot file not loaded transactions are disabled. vasstat1:/opt/output/daily_stats# vxdisk list DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS vasstat1:/opt/output/daily_stats# vasstat1:/opt/output/daily_stats# vasstat1:/opt/output/daily_stats# vasstat1:/opt/output/daily_stats# vxdisk list DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS vasstat1:/opt/output/daily_stats# vxdg list NAME STATE ID vasstat1:/opt/output/daily_stats# vxprint -ht VxVM vxprint ERROR V-5-1-684 IPC failure: Configuration daemon is not accessible I'll apperciate if you can tell me some possibilities to fix the problems. Adrian. --=_Part_86311_31543183.1163594908948-- ___ Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-vx ___ Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-vx
Re: [Veritas-vx] Recommended mount options for VxFS
You can also grow the log using fsadm, if you don't want to place it on a separate device and it was built too small originally. Man fsadm_vxfs for the specific flag. Regards, Scott > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Par Botes > Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 12:35 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > Subject: Re: [Veritas-vx] Recommended mount options for VxFS > > Nope, > > I mean mkfs -o logsize (I.e. the size of the intent log) > > If you have the filesystem already then you need to convert > to a multivolume filesystem, create a volumeset and Use > policy to specify that logdata goes onto a specific device > and all other data goes onto another device. > This is in multi volume file systems (chapter 9 of the 4.0 fs > admin guide). > > Best, > Par > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 11:09 AM > To: veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > Subject: Re: [Veritas-vx] Recommended mount options for VxFS > > Par, > > by "logsize" you mean "logiosize" from mount_vxfs manual ? > > Regards > przemol > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 09:26:10AM -0800, Par Botes wrote: > > Ok, > > > > You may want to consider these then. These are for 5.0 on > Solaris (but > > > should Be easily transferable to most OS'es and even previous > > versions). Note that this is generic Guidelines. Depending > on memory > > pressure, application IO profile and a host of other things > These may > > or may not be good tunables. I'd consider them. For > databases there is > > > nothing That beats the ODM interface (or the quickIO interface for > > non-oracle workloads), this is due to the fact that ODM/QIO also > > alters the filesystem locking behaviour besides the cache behaviour. > > There are some other tricks we employ as well to accelerate on the > > ODM/QIO IO path. > > > > Anyway, here is a generic write up on the first set of > tunables/mount > > options I'd consider For vxfs/Vxvm for three workloads; > DSS/OLTP/file > > serving. I would wait with doing anything for The vxtunefs > read_pref > > and nstreams etc before I've analyzed the impact of these tunables > > since The vxtunefs parameters are autotuned (and autotuned really > > well). > > > > For DMP: Use the balanced path algorithm for A/A type of arrays, > > consider using a failover group for A/P arrays. Balanced path gives > > the best performance for almost all workloads. > > > > > > DSS/HPC > > == > > VxFS mount options: > > Log mode= delaylog (best performance and enables data integrity) > > Logsize= medium (doesn't need to be very much larger than > default or > > keep default) Mincache=direct (turn off in-kernel buffering) > > Convosync=direct (delay inode updates for writes to files) > > > > Tunefs: > > Read_ahead=1 (traditional vxfs read ahead enabled) > Fcl_winterval=6000 > > (50 minute update interval for FCL) > > > > VxVM kernel tuning (/etc/system) > > Set vxio:vol_maxio=32768 (max IO size = 16MB) > > > > > > OLTP > > === > > VxFS mount options: > > Log mode= delaylog (best performance and enables data integrity) > > Logsize= medium (doesn't need to be very much larger than > default or > > keep default) Mincache=direct (turn off in-kernel buffering) > > Convosync=direct (delay inode updates for writes to files) > > > > Tunefs: > > Read_ahead=0 (turn off read ahead) > > Fcl_winterval=6000 (50 minute update interval for FCL) > > > > VxVM kernel tuning (/etc/system) > > Set vxio:vol_maxio=32768 (max IO size = 16MB) > > > > > > Fileserving, lots of smallish files (like an NFS home directory > > server) > > > == > > == Log mode= delaylog (best performance and enables data integrity) > > Logsize= large (Make the log big and use a separate device > for the log > > > using volume sets) > > > > Tunefs: > > Read_ahead=0 (turn off read ahead) > > Fcl_winterval=6000 (50 minute update interval for FCL) > > > > kernel tuning (/etc/system) > > Set vxfs:vxfs_ninode= (this value should be viewed as 1KB > units, set > > to no more than 50% or memory but make it big) Set ncsize= (this > > should be 80% of vxfs_ninode, the default is derived from maxusers) > > > > > > Other > > === > > On some platforms (AIX) you can reduce vx_bc_bufhwm and > > vx_vmm_buf_count to reduce the size of the FS cache in the > kernel, on > > Solaris this is dynamically done and not directly tuned). > > You may also want to consider tuning the fsflusher if pid 3 > uses a lot > > > of cpu (but that's a sun tunable and not really a vxfs/VxVM > tunable). > > > > > > Now, the caveats... These tunables try to optimize the > performance by > > either changing the way memory is consumed or a
Re: [Veritas-vx] Veritas-vx Digest, Vol 7, Issue 11
Hi Vijay, Now things are looking something better, I could able to add the LUNs as VxVM disk and now those all are being recognized as enclosure disks. But I have here only one doubt, after installing the package for ASL and APM (VRTSHDS-AMS_9500V_SunOSsparc_vm41MP1_280270.tar), still the apm is Not-Active but the enclosure is being added. Could you please help me here in pointing out the reason of not getting activated the dmphdsalua apm. Infact after adding the package I have tried running the vxdctl enable command. bash-3.00# vxdmpadm listapm all Module Name APM Name APM Version Array Types State dmpaa dmpaa 1 A/A Active dmpap dmpap 1 A/P Active dmpap dmpap 1 A/P-C Active dmpapf dmpapf 1 A/PF-VERITAS Not-Active dmpapf dmpapf 1 A/PF-T3PLUS Not-Active dmpapg dmpapg 1 A/PG Not-Active dmpapg dmpapg 1 A/PG-C Not-Active dmpjbod dmpjbod 1 Disk Active dmpjbod dmpjbod 1 APdisk Active dmphdsalua dmphdsalua 1 A/A-A-HDS Not-Active bash-3.00# vxdmpadm listenclosure all ENCLR_NAME ENCLR_TYPE ENCLR_SNO STATUS ARRAY_TYPE Disk Disk DISKS CONNECTED Disk AMS_WMS0 AMS_WMS 75040421 CONNECTED A/A-A-HDS Regards, Dash From: vijay vijay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 8:23 PM To: Mrutyunjaya Dash Subject: RE: [Veritas-vx] Veritas-vx Digest, Vol 7, Issue 11 you don't have to label both disk. just one. I have here more than 200 servers with same what you are trying to setup. If you follow my previous email you will never see any issue. Good luck Vijay Subject: RE: [Veritas-vx] Veritas-vx Digest, Vol 7, Issue 11 Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:24:51 +0530 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Hi Vijay, Let me just brief you the environment and what my intention is to do. Basically the intention is to setup a Solaris 10 server with Hitachi SAN and VxVM. Now on the connectivity part the Hitachi SAN box has two controllers connected to two brocade switch and SUN server has two HBA connected to both of the same switch to make at the switch, HBA and controller of SAN level redundancy. So it is obvious that we need to have multi pathing application to manage the show. For this we will be using Veritas DMP. Now I have installed Solaris 10 with Veritas Foundation Suite and created the required LUNs and attached each to both of the SAN controller as to get the multi pathing to work. Now the format command is detecting two disks for each LUN. Now the idea is to add two LUNs as a single disk in VxVM. As each LUN is identified is two disks through format command, do you suggest to lebel both of the disks? I would appreciate your suggestion here to make something workable for me. Regards, Dash From: vijay vijay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 9:06 PM To: Mrutyunjaya Dash; veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-vx] Veritas-vx Digest, Vol 7, Issue 11 Are you running Solaris ??? or any other UNIX (HP,AIX) Looks to me that System see's the disk but not active. It seems to me that you need to run vxdiskadm or vxdiskadd ? Have you checked the disk by running format command and make sure that disk is labeled, if not you have to label the new LUN you attached Hope that helps to troubleshoot your problems Cheers, Vijay Subject: RE: [Veritas-vx] Veritas-vx Digest, Vol 7, Issue 11 Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:35:00 +0530 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Vijay, Appreciate your reply. As you said to install the array support library, I just downloaded the appropriate ASL package VRTSHTC-AMSWMS_solvm40_278145.tar. After adding the package I excuted vxconfigd –k and vxdctl enable. But still output of vmdmpadm listapm all show not active for the particular HDS module. bash-3.00# vxdmpadm listapm all Module Name APM Name APM Version Array Types State dmpaa dmpaa 1 A/A Active dmpap dmpap 1 A/P Active dmpap dmp