Re: [Veritas-ha] Extend vxfs block size 1k disk layout 7 beyond 4TB

2012-12-14 Thread Gene Henriksen
This is probably because the file system is almost full. Before the file systems expands, it needs free space for the meta-data by growing the volume 500 mb, it provides plenty of meta-data space for a larger grow. You could then do a defray fsadm –E and –D will report on degree of fragmentatio

Re: [Veritas-ha] Multiple commands of vxevac

2012-12-12 Thread Gene Henriksen
Vxevac mirrors the data from one disk to another. You can run multiple mirror operations simultaneously. You could also select to mirror volumes to new disks then remove the plexes from the old disks. Or, with VEA, you can look at the disk group and select the Disk View. From here you can drag a

Re: [Veritas-ha] FileStore interconnect

2012-02-23 Thread Gene Henriksen
The minimum configuration for FileStore is 4 NICs, 2 for private interconnect (including a private IP for PXE boot of the second node to get it installed) and 2 for the client network for access. On 2/23/12 11:10 AM, "Colin Yemm" wrote: >Sergey, > >Two separate VLANs (instead of crossover cables

Re: [Veritas-ha] MultiNICB attribute question

2010-10-18 Thread Gene Henriksen
The section of the Bundled Agents Ref Guide that shows Failback has a note above it that these are optional for Base mode. You are using MPathd mode, so Failback setting is ignored. Your issue is with Mpathd, not MNICB nfs10 in.mpathd[9033]: [ID 620804 daemon.error] Successfully failed back to N

Re: [Veritas-ha] I/O Fencing non-CFS

2010-10-13 Thread Gene Henriksen
-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Everett Henson Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 11:40 AM To: Gene Henriksen; 'veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] I/O Fencing non-CFS Thanks Gene. I understand it'

Re: [Veritas-ha] I/O Fencing non-CFS

2010-10-13 Thread Gene Henriksen
IO Fencing works with VCS. Even without CFS/RAC it is the best protection against split-brain. You CAN import a DG on multiple systems by using vxdg -C import to clear the name in the private region. Alternatives include the preonline_ipc trigger (in sample_triggers, copy to triggers, rename p

Re: [Veritas-ha] wac question and suggestion

2009-05-14 Thread Gene Henriksen
Having taught Global Clustering and its predecessor, I would prefer to see WAC have the ability to failover from one IP to another or make multiple connections over 2 or 3 IPs for higher redundancy. Keep in mind that DR is not HA If the WAC loses the connection, you would get notification and can

Re: [Veritas-ha] Attributes for resource

2009-03-30 Thread Gene Henriksen
Look at the Resource Type attributes: hatype -display Application From: veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Shashi Kanth Boddula Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 5:16 AM To: bjoern.heinem...@it

Re: [Veritas-ha] Linking Two Service Groups

2008-12-17 Thread Gene Henriksen
First I think there is a difference in the 4.x and 5.x Agent framework on which the Agents are compiled, so I don't know if copying an agent from 5.0 to 4.x will work. Second, I don't know if it is legal from the perspective of the licensing (I am definitely not a lawyer). Third, you would

Re: [Veritas-ha] steward question

2008-12-17 Thread Gene Henriksen
The steward's purpose is to try to ping the remote cluster just like the Icmp and IcmpS heartbeats. The only method of getting status is for the WAC process to have a connection. The steward is sent an IP and tries to ping the remote cluster, if it fails, it reports that it cannot ping the remote c

Re: [Veritas-ha] Checking whether a v5 cluster is in a read/write state

2008-12-01 Thread Gene Henriksen
Use the "haclus -value ReadOnly" command to determine if it is open (ReadOnly=0) or closed (ReadOnly=1) If you set the haclus option for BackupInterval, it will create a main.backup when open. The purpose is that an open config will not stop a reboot. From

Re: [Veritas-ha] VCS:13067

2008-11-21 Thread Gene Henriksen
My students often cite the listener as a process that will fail for no apparent reason. The fix for this is to make it non-critical and to use the RestartLimit to allow the agent to restart the Listener process. When an agent restarts a resource it will log a message and if you have Notification se

Re: [Veritas-ha] VCS 5.0 MP1: issue probing disk-group !?

2008-10-21 Thread Gene Henriksen
224062569.93. xxx_DG enabled,cds 1224062672.105. xxx_DG enabled,cds 1224062491.85. Gene Henriksen wrote: > If you have a "?" in the GUI, then it cannot probe the resource on one > system or the other. It will not import on either until it is probed on

Re: [Veritas-ha] VCS 5.0 MP1: issue probing disk-group !?

2008-10-21 Thread Gene Henriksen
If you have a "?" in the GUI, then it cannot probe the resource on one system or the other. It will not import on either until it is probed on both. This is to avoid a concurrency violation. Hold the cursor on the resource and a pop-up box should show the status so you can see where it is not prob

Re: [Veritas-ha] Adding A New LUN and Solaris

2008-10-15 Thread Gene Henriksen
LUNs are really not "cluster aware", clusters, through Storage Foundation, are LUN aware. Zone the LUN to be seen by both systems. Run devfsadm or the Solaris 10 equivalent if it has changed on both systems. You should now be able to see the LUN in the format command output. Run "vxdctl

Re: [Veritas-ha] VCS NFS question

2008-09-21 Thread Gene Henriksen
Are you getting a "stale file handle" at the client system on failover of the NFS service group? If so this is most likely because the major device numbers are different on the two servers for Vx drivers. The major device number is used by NFS to construct the file handle for the client. Look up t

Re: [Veritas-ha] To display frozen Service Group

2008-09-06 Thread Gene Henriksen
The following will show persistent or temporary or both ### For persistent freeze train1 !# hagrp -list Frozen=1 sg2 train1 sg2 train2 train1 !# hagrp -display -attribute Frozen #Group Attribute System Value ClusterService F

Re: [Veritas-ha] Correcting the types.cf file

2008-08-07 Thread Gene Henriksen
Out of curiosity, what is the difference between the "good" types.cf and what it saves? Did you manually edit the "good" types.cf to make changes? If you edited the types.cf, you could have added extra spaces or put in a setting that is already a default and these would get stripped out on a sa

Re: [Veritas-ha] clustering solaris 10+ zones

2008-07-24 Thread Gene Henriksen
Have you read the information in the VCS Users Guide on Zones? There is a description of how to set it up. VCS runs in the global zone. Some resources have the ability to start processes or IP, for example, in a zone (these resources have a "container name" in the attributes. Resources such as NIC

Re: [Veritas-ha] Missing Files

2008-07-22 Thread Gene Henriksen
Nothing is missing, that is all there should be. The fact that there is no online, offline, monitor or clean indicates they are built into the NotifierAgent binary. You will see the same on some others. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behal

Re: [Veritas-ha] ClusterService Group

2008-06-25 Thread Gene Henriksen
no effect on the hagui (java) on a local system. From: i man [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 9:01 AM To: Gene Henriksen; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] ClusterService Group Thankyou Gene, but my

Re: [Veritas-ha] ClusterService Group

2008-06-25 Thread Gene Henriksen
No problem. In your case, shutting down CSG will stop notification. It has no effect on VCS. From: i man [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 8:53 AM To: Gene Henriksen; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha

Re: [Veritas-ha] ClusterService Group

2008-06-25 Thread Gene Henriksen
ClusterService is a group that "belongs" to the cluster itself. In most instances you will find it that way you describe. It also is a great place for the notifier resource. Normally it is not required. When using Global Clustering (connecting 2 or more clusters for wide area failover), the Wide Ar

Re: [Veritas-ha] AutoStartList: One or both nodes?

2008-06-25 Thread Gene Henriksen
The order of auto starting is based on the AutoStartPolicy which defaults to "Order". Therfore the first one in the list would be the preferred system for AutoStart. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Price Sent: Wednesday, June

Re: [Veritas-ha] .stale file

2008-06-03 Thread Gene Henriksen
to run on other clusters. From: John Cronin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 10:45 AM To: i man Cc: Jim Senicka; Gene Henriksen; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] .stale file It would be no problem to create

Re: [Veritas-ha] .stale file

2008-06-03 Thread Gene Henriksen
It indicates you did not close and save the cluster configuration after making modifications. It is a warning. If you close and save the config, it goes away. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of i man Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 7:28

Re: [Veritas-ha] System Priority

2008-05-30 Thread Gene Henriksen
Really doesn't matter. One could have priority=12 and the other = 31. This could be caused by manually editing the main.cf and creating your own service groups. I have seen it in the hagui when sys1 is added first (priority=0), then sys2 is added (priority=1), then sys1 is removed from the

Re: [Veritas-ha] Tweaking monitors

2008-04-10 Thread Gene Henriksen
FaultOnMonitorTimeout is obviously set to 4 and you are having more than 4 timeouts. That is 4 minutes of non-monitoring. You could increase FOTM or the monitor interval or both. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Manuel Braun Sent: Thu

Re: [Veritas-ha] VCS geographic edition

2008-02-28 Thread Gene Henriksen
The Wide Area failover in VCS is called Global Clustering. In 4.x it is enabled (already installed) by adding the GCO key. In 5.x it is part of the product and you either buy a HA or HA/DR license. The HA/DR license includes Global Clustering. It requires 2 clusters (they could be single node clu

Re: [Veritas-ha] Help needed urgently

2008-02-28 Thread Gene Henriksen
You need to run the vcs install as "-installonly" so it will not try to create new configuration files. As far as the .cf files, they will get copied over from the other cluster node when it joins the cluster. If you have custom agents or triggers they need to be copied from the other node in the

Re: [Veritas-ha] Restart VCS and GAB

2008-02-18 Thread Gene Henriksen
Edit the /etc/llttab on both systems, change the ce4 to ce3, restart VCS, gab, llt. you can use #lltstat -nvv |more to see which port is not connected. note that is not -n w, but -n v v (with no spaces between them). From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

Re: [Veritas-ha] Restart VCS and GAB

2008-02-08 Thread Gene Henriksen
If you "fixed" the cable issue, then LLT heartbeats will start to travel over the line and the jeopardy will clear itself in less than a minute. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karthik Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 6:53 PM To: veri

Re: [Veritas-ha] how to take a resource offline, urgent

2008-01-13 Thread Gene Henriksen
That is incorrect. Offlining a critical resource with VCS does not cause failover. However if his storage resources are critical and he does not offline them before the SAN is shutdown, the group will fault and failover and then fault again because the resoures cannot be brought online because t

Re: [Veritas-ha] Is VxVM mirror supported in VCS GCO option?

2007-12-28 Thread Gene Henriksen
To mirror volumes you must be dealing with a relatively small distance, such as less than 80K. For these distances, why not use a single cluster called a "stretch" or "campus" cluster? In SF 5.0 there is the concept of "site awareness" so that VM is aware of the two sites and if a volume at the rem

Re: [Veritas-ha] Veritas Cluster restart impacts ?

2007-11-26 Thread Gene Henriksen
VCS handles all of your questions. When VCS starts, it calls on the agents to probe their resources. If the resource is online, then it marks it "online". If a service group is already up, no problem. When all probes are done, it evaluates what is offline and then brings up the offline service

Re: [Veritas-ha] IPMultiNICB deprecated flag migration

2007-10-16 Thread Gene Henriksen
Look at the options to IP resource Sent by Good Messaging (www.good.com) -Original Message- From: Evsyukov, Sergey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 04:42 AM US Mountain Standard Time To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject:[Veritas-ha] IPMu

Re: [Veritas-ha] setup listener to send email alert

2007-06-27 Thread Gene Henriksen
There are definite advantages to having the notifier in the ClusterService Group. First, notification is a cluster level function. Second CS group has "Special powers" like a super group. Because of its importance in Global Clusters, CSG is the first group online (your notifications get delivered e

Re: [Veritas-ha] Proxy resource in "status unknown"

2007-04-16 Thread Gene Henriksen
One other reason for not Enabled: some resources run a "Open" entry point when you enable them to create some structure in memory. If all attributes are not sec correctly, such as when creating resources from the command line, the structure would be incorrectly built and then would not come online.

Re: [Veritas-ha] replacing nodes with newer Veritas VCS Softwareinstalled

2007-04-16 Thread Gene Henriksen
Versions of VCS/GAB/LLT must be the same within a cluster. _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Weber, Klaus Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 4:04 AM To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-ha] replacing nodes with newer Veritas VCS Softwareinsta

Re: [Veritas-ha] VVR: Primary RVG-s from many hosts to Secondary RVG-son one hos

2007-04-13 Thread Gene Henriksen
Yes it is supported. VVR supports many to one (many hosts replicating to a single host with multiple secondaries). We also support hosts having both primary and secondary RVGs simultaneously, such as H1 has primary for RVG1 and secondary for RVG2 and host H2 is primary for RVG2 and secondary for RV

Re: [Veritas-ha] SG dependency question

2007-03-20 Thread Gene Henriksen
That would be correct behavior. Child always wins. In an offline local, the child is the production group and the parent is the test group. If the production group needs to fail to the server where the parent is running, then the parent is shut down to make way for the child. John Cronin is correc

Re: [Veritas-ha] VCS with Blades

2007-03-03 Thread Gene Henriksen
Multiple protocols on the same interface is not unusual. In the days of Windows NT 3.51, systems had IPX/SPX, NetBEUI and TCP all on the same port to communicate with the different clients typically found in those days (this was before Microsoft realized that TCP was not going to die, the Intern

Re: [Veritas-ha] VCS with Blades

2007-03-02 Thread Gene Henriksen
Newer versions of VCS are kinder and better than 1.3. Node number can be duplicate, but cluster IDs need to be unique if they will be out on the same network (remember LLT doesn't get routed, so it isn't going everywhere). With current VCS, if LLT sports a duplicate, it will announce that it

Re: [Veritas-ha] Removing a dead node from a cluster group

2007-02-20 Thread Gene Henriksen
If you remove ClusterService you will lose the Notifier resource. IF you have removed the node from all service groups, SystemList, AutoStartList, etc (grep the main.cf) then you can delete it from the cluster. It will complain if it is still referenced. There is no need to change node numb

Re: [Veritas-ha] NFSLock-Agent

2007-02-19 Thread Gene Henriksen
From the 4.1 VCS install Guide: Supported Software ◆ Solaris 8, 9, and 10 (32-bit and 64-bit) operating systems _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Munish Dhawan Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 11:53 PM To: Frank, Lutz; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn

Re: [Veritas-ha] low-Pri Public Link query

2006-12-22 Thread Gene Henriksen
The two low-pri links are on different IP subnets. Since LLT is not routable, the question is how your network reaching those two ports is wired. If access between ce0 and qfe1 are thru a router, LLT will not work. _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Munis

Re: [Veritas-ha] Sharing a hub

2006-11-14 Thread Gene Henriksen
Yes you can share hubs and VLANs. In Symantec classrooms, we have 8 clusters using one hub for heartbeat 1 and another hub for heartbeat 2. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 1:30 PM To: veri