[Veritas-vx] QUESTIONS : Veritas Volume Manager from 3.5 to 5.0 data migration in Solaris 8/10
Hi, Our current server stanley is running Solaris 8 and Veritas Foundation Suite for Oracle (VxVM/VxFS) 3.5-mp3. All the disk groups in the associated storage has version 90 as below : stanley will be replaced by a new server with the same name running Solaris 10 and Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0-mp1. Our plan is to attach all existing disk groups (version 90) from stanley to the new replacement server with Solaris 10 and latest Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0-mp1. Please advise me the procedure to disconnect all existing disk groups from the stanley and reconnect them to new replacement without going thru the upgrade of existing disk groups of version 90. Our goal is to run Veritas 5.0 in the new stanley while accessing all original version 90 data in the disk group hds9585dg. We plan to just perform the steps - 1.#deport hds9585dg 2. physical SAN disconnection of stanley and reconnection to new replacement server 3. #import hds9585dgPlease let us know if they are correct and if there is anything we are missing. Also, say we need to fall back to the old stanely serer running 3.5. Is it possible to reverse the above steps after physically switch the SAN connection and deport/import from version 90 disk group in Veritas 5.0 to version 90 disk group in Veritas 3.5 ? I want to make sure that there's no issue performing the steps in reverse. Thanks for your assistance, Bill stanley# vxdg list hds9585dg Group: hds9585dg dgid: 1097031500.6964.stanley import-id: 0.11605 flags: version: 90 detach-policy: global copies:nconfig=default nlog=default config:seqno=0.2252 permlen=28130 free=27921 templen=132 loglen=4262 : : stanley# pkginfo -l VRTSvxvm PKGINST: VRTSvxvm NAME: VERITAS Volume Manager, Binaries CATEGORY: system ARCH: sparc VERSION: 3.5,REV=06.21.2002.23.14 ___ Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-vx
Re: [Veritas-vx] QUESTIONS : Veritas Volume Manager from 3.5 to 5.0 data migration in Solaris 8/10
This procedure should work without any problems and you should be able to move back to 3.5 as long as you don't upgrade the volume group version. And of course you left out step 0 because we know it's required: 0. Take a full backup of stanley. Just in case. Cheers, - Mike.Myers at nwdc.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Mackler Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 1:41 PM To: veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-vx] QUESTIONS : Veritas Volume Manager from 3.5 to 5.0 data migration in Solaris 8/10 Hi, Our current server stanley is running Solaris 8 and Veritas Foundation Suite for Oracle (VxVM/VxFS) 3.5-mp3. All the disk groups in the associated storage has version 90 as below : stanley will be replaced by a new server with the same name running Solaris 10 and Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0-mp1. Our plan is to attach all existing disk groups (version 90) from stanley to the new replacement server with Solaris 10 and latest Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0-mp1. Please advise me the procedure to disconnect all existing disk groups from the stanley and reconnect them to new replacement without going thru the upgrade of existing disk groups of version 90. Our goal is to run Veritas 5.0 in the new stanley while accessing all original version 90 data in the disk group hds9585dg. We plan to just perform the steps - 1.#deport hds9585dg 2. physical SAN disconnection of stanley and reconnection to new replacement server 3. #import hds9585dgPlease let us know if they are correct and if there is anything we are missing. Also, say we need to fall back to the old stanely serer running 3.5. Is it possible to reverse the above steps after physically switch the SAN connection and deport/import from version 90 disk group in Veritas 5.0 to version 90 disk group in Veritas 3.5 ? I want to make sure that there's no issue performing the steps in reverse. Thanks for your assistance, Bill stanley# vxdg list hds9585dg Group: hds9585dg dgid: 1097031500.6964.stanley import-id: 0.11605 flags: version: 90 detach-policy: global copies:nconfig=default nlog=default config:seqno=0.2252 permlen=28130 free=27921 templen=132 loglen=4262 : : stanley# pkginfo -l VRTSvxvm PKGINST: VRTSvxvm NAME: VERITAS Volume Manager, Binaries CATEGORY: system ARCH: sparc VERSION: 3.5,REV=06.21.2002.23.14 ___ Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-vx
Re: [Veritas-vx] QUESTIONS : Veritas Volume Manager from 3.5 to 5.0 data migration in Solaris 8/10
Hi, VxSF 5.0 supports DG versions 20-140. You don't need to upgrade and the below procedure should work. And yes as posted earlier by Mike, do make full backups of what you're going to be migrating. You might want to upgrade to a later version of DG once old server's out of the picture. On 1/21/08, Bill Mackler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Our current server stanley is running Solaris 8 and Veritas Foundation Suite for Oracle (VxVM/VxFS) 3.5-mp3. All the disk groups in the associated storage has version 90 as below : stanley will be replaced by a new server with the same name running Solaris 10 and Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0-mp1. Our plan is to attach all existing disk groups (version 90) from stanley to the new replacement server with Solaris 10 and latest Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0-mp1. Please advise me the procedure to disconnect all existing disk groups from the stanley and reconnect them to new replacement without going thru the upgrade of existing disk groups of version 90. Our goal is to run Veritas 5.0 in the new stanley while accessing all original version 90 data in the disk group hds9585dg. We plan to just perform the steps - 1.#deport hds9585dg 2. physical SAN disconnection of stanley and reconnection to new replacement server 3. #import hds9585dgPlease let us know if they are correct and if there is anything we are missing. Also, say we need to fall back to the old stanely serer running 3.5. Is it possible to reverse the above steps after physically switch the SAN connection and deport/import from version 90 disk group in Veritas 5.0 to version 90 disk group in Veritas 3.5 ? I want to make sure that there's no issue performing the steps in reverse. Thanks for your assistance, Bill stanley# vxdg list hds9585dg Group: hds9585dg dgid: 1097031500.6964.stanley import-id: 0.11605 flags: version: 90 detach-policy: global copies:nconfig=default nlog=default config:seqno=0.2252 permlen=28130 free=27921 templen=132 loglen=4262 : : stanley# pkginfo -l VRTSvxvm PKGINST: VRTSvxvm NAME: VERITAS Volume Manager, Binaries CATEGORY: system ARCH: sparc VERSION: 3.5,REV=06.21.2002.23.14 ___ Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-vx -- _/ sengork.blogspot.com / ___ Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-vx
