Re: [Veritas-ha] Cluster Interconnect cables: Direct connect orVLANs?

2009-09-16 Thread Jim Senicka
My only addition to the comments by the esteemed gentleman from Virginia is to make sure you have a solid practice in place to manage cluster ID when you go VLAN, as there may be cases when your network people “cross the streams” From: veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:

Re: [Veritas-ha] LLT heartbeat redundancy

2009-05-03 Thread Jim Senicka
al Message- From: veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Imri Zvik Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 12:18 PM To: Jim Senicka Cc: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] LLT heartbeat redundancy On Sunday 03 May 2009 19

Re: [Veritas-ha] LLT heartbeat redundancy

2009-05-03 Thread Jim Senicka
a low pri connection on a third network. -Original Message- From: Imri Zvik [mailto:im...@inter.net.il] Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 11:57 AM To: Jim Senicka Cc: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] LLT heartbeat redundancy On Sunday 03 May 2009 18:25:08 Jim Senicka

Re: [Veritas-ha] LLT heartbeat redundancy

2009-05-03 Thread Jim Senicka
You had 2 failures. No real way to design around that. GAB "visible" would prevent bad things from occurring. -Original Message- From: veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Imri Zvik Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 11:20 AM T

Re: [Veritas-ha] SUMMARY: filesystem corruption after the cluster nodereboot

2009-04-01 Thread Jim Senicka
Running a non journeled file system in a cluster is always a bad idea, as your recovery time is always effected by file system start up tasks. Running UFS in logging mode was usually a pretty big performance hit. Why not VxFS? -Original Message- From: veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.aubur

Re: [Veritas-ha] SFCFSRAC - node with the highest nodeid panics afternode with the lowest nodeid rejoins

2009-03-17 Thread Jim Senicka
What is your gabtab settings? You seem to have two independent cluster generations. You should have /sbin/gabconfig -c -n4 in gabtab -Original Message- From: Imri Zvik [mailto:im...@inter.net.il] Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 10:16 AM To: Jim Senicka Cc: veritas-ha

Re: [Veritas-ha] SFCFSRAC - node with the highest nodeid panics afternode with the lowest nodeid rejoins

2009-03-17 Thread Jim Senicka
A few questions 1. Do you have a support case open? 2. Do you reconnect the FC before the node boots? 3. Is the network available during boot time? "GAB: port b is halting the system due to network failure" essentially means that VXFEN is connecting between two clusters with different generation

Re: [Veritas-ha] Q: best upgrade procedure for solaris & VCS

2009-02-05 Thread Jim Senicka
You cannot mix VCS versions. You would need to shut down the 4.0 side, bring up the 5.0 side, bring up the service group(s) then upgrade the 4.0 side From: veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Steffen Winther Sørensen Sent

Re: [Veritas-ha] Application Resource with Start/Stop butno Monitorscript possible?

2009-02-04 Thread Jim Senicka
Simplest would be to point these resources to use a file in /tmp so it gets cleared on server restart -Original Message- From: Kubota, Harald (GTS Pac Rim) [mailto:harald_kub...@ml.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 8:26 PM To: Jim Senicka; A Darren Dunham; Veritas-ha

Re: [Veritas-ha] Application Resource with Start/Stop butno Monitor script possible?

2009-02-04 Thread Jim Senicka
But would still get faulted, and cause offline up the dependency tree, unless you muck with FaultHandling -Original Message- From: veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of A Darren Dunham Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 3:

Re: [Veritas-ha] Removing VCS group

2009-02-02 Thread Jim Senicka
No. It means you do not have to do that. Sent from my Nokia E62 handheld by goodlink. -Original Message- From: i man [mailto:imanuk2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 08:07 AM US Mountain Standard Time To: Jim Senicka Cc: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-ha] Removing VCS group

2009-02-02 Thread Jim Senicka
. On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Jim Senicka wrote: > Removal of the service group has zero effect on the storage. You need to > use appropriate VxVM commands to manage the disk group. The vxprint command > is VxVM and has nothing to do with VCS. > Removing the service group was f

Re: [Veritas-ha] Removing VCS group

2009-01-30 Thread Jim Senicka
Removal of the service group has zero effect on the storage. You need to use appropriate VxVM commands to manage the disk group. The vxprint command is VxVM and has nothing to do with VCS. Removing the service group was fine. Now you need to complete the VxVM work. Sent from my Nokia E62 hand

Re: [Veritas-ha] VCS Configuration 1

2009-01-21 Thread Jim Senicka
From: veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jim Senicka Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 4:21 PM To: i man; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] VCS Configuration 1 Comments below with JS>>>

Re: [Veritas-ha] VCS Configuration 1

2009-01-21 Thread Jim Senicka
Comments below with JS>>> From: veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of i man Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:36 PM To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-ha] VCS Configuration 1 All, I am trying to c

Re: [Veritas-ha] SRDF agent for cascaded SRDF in global cluster

2008-12-24 Thread Jim Senicka
The SRDF replication control agent for VCS HA/DR does not currently support cascaded SRDF. It only supports STAR. We are looking at adding cascaded, but no official support at this time, and no committed date for cascade support. Speak with your Symantec rep? From: veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.e

Re: [Veritas-ha] Metro/Global cluster solution options

2008-12-24 Thread Jim Senicka
Talk with your Symantec rep? The System Engineer can easily come in and discuss how VCS can manage your DR Automation needs From: veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of rajesh Kharya (rkharya) Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2

Re: [Veritas-ha] hagrp -switch

2008-11-05 Thread Jim Senicka
It depends on your application. What would your application do if you shut it down from the command line and moved it? VCS is 100% orthogonal to this discussion, as it is just executing the commands. Sent from my Nokia E62 handheld by goodlink. -Original Message- From: upen [mailt

Re: [Veritas-ha] Question about HA and disks

2008-10-28 Thread Jim Senicka
Ok Looks like I was wrong here. Pluto is not dying a clean death. I/O fencing may very well have prevented this issue -Original Message- From: Andrey Dmitriev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 2:56 AM To: Jon E Price/SYS/NYTIMES; Jim Senicka Cc: Joshua Fielden

Re: [Veritas-ha] Question about HA and disks

2008-10-27 Thread Jim Senicka
rom the OS. -Original Message- From: Brad Boyer Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 8:57 PM To: Jim Senicka; Jon E Price/SYS/NYTIMES; Andrey Dmitriev; Joshua Fielden; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-ha] Question about HA and disks Based on the original description, I would pr

Re: [Veritas-ha] Question about HA and disks

2008-10-27 Thread Jim Senicka
took over the service group on Server B, Server A was down and could not have been writing -Original Message- From: Jon E Price/SYS/NYTIMES [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 8:14 PM To: Jim Senicka; Andrey Dmitriev; Joshua Fielden; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subj

Re: [Veritas-ha] Question about HA and disks

2008-10-27 Thread Jim Senicka
When a server panics, it stops writing to anything but the dump device. VCS did exactly as designed. 16 seconds after heartbeat failure it started takeover. Whatever was damaged on your file system was already damaged at that point, regardless how long it took to dump core to the dump device. I wou

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

2008-10-22 Thread Jim Senicka
probing disk-group !? To Jim, Scott and Gene. Jim Senicka wrote: > Is the disk group agent running on the systems? > Yes it is: root 16295 1 0 16:16:01 ? 1:29 /opt/VRTSvcs/bin/DiskGroup/DiskGroupAgent -type DiskGroup > Has the cluster been started since you created th

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

2008-10-21 Thread Jim Senicka
Is the disk group agent running on the systems? Has the cluster been started since you created the service group definition? Are all resources enabled in the service groups? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pascal Grostabussiat Sent: Tuesda

Re: [Veritas-ha] IPMultiNICB, mpathd and network outages

2008-10-20 Thread Jim Senicka
I would be more concerned about future failures being handled properly. If you were able to take out all networks from all nodes at same time, you have a SPOF. If this was a one time maintenance upgrade to your network gear and not a normal event, setting VCS to not respond to network events means

Re: [Veritas-ha] Server crashes but VCS doesn't detect it

2008-06-17 Thread Jim Senicka
If power cycle fixed it, it was still heartbeating on LLT. Sent from my Nokia E62 handheld by goodlink. -Original Message- From: Andrey Dmitriev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 03:33 PM US Mountain Standard Time To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Cc:

Re: [Veritas-ha] vxfencing >2 nodes

2008-06-12 Thread Jim Senicka
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Re: [Veritas-ha] vxfencing >2 nodes

2008-06-12 Thread Jim Senicka
For any cluster larger than 1 node, I/O fencing is highly recommended to protect data integrity in the event of a split brain. 2 nodes is not in any way more resistant to split brain than 3 nodes or more. VCS does not use any form of quorum based membership (quorum has a number of it's own ugly i

Re: [Veritas-ha] VCS with replicated storage

2008-06-05 Thread Jim Senicka
You are attempting to build what is called a Replicated Data Cluster. This should be documented in the UG as I recall. You will use identical DG and volume resources, with the appropriate replication management resource under the DG. To do this and comply with the EULA, you need the HA/DR Edition o

Re: [Veritas-ha] Veritas Cluster Server

2008-06-05 Thread Jim Senicka
Have you opened a support case? To the best of my knowledge, VCS 4.1 does not support RHEL 5. Support can confirm From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Goutham N Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 8:37 AM To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.ed

Re: [Veritas-ha] .stale file

2008-06-03 Thread Jim Senicka
you only need one notifier, usually in the CSG. No need for proxy anywhere else. From: i man [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 12:00 PM To: Gene Henriksen Cc: John Cronin; Jim Senicka; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re

Re: [Veritas-ha] .stale file

2008-06-03 Thread Jim Senicka
Bigger question is what are you routinely using stop -force to accomplish? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gene Henriksen Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 8:17 AM To: i man; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] .

Re: [Veritas-ha] .stale file

2008-06-03 Thread Jim Senicka
Right. But that can also be done via CLI or GUI with the cluster running. From: i man [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 9:48 AM To: Jim Senicka Cc: Gene Henriksen; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] .stale file

Re: [Veritas-ha] Importance of NIC Proxy in Clusterservice group

2008-06-02 Thread Jim Senicka
take a look at the BARG. The NIC agent monitors the NIC From: i man [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 1:27 PM To: Jim Senicka Cc: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] Importance of NIC Proxy in Clusterservice group I

Re: [Veritas-ha] Importance of NIC Proxy in Clusterservice group

2008-06-02 Thread Jim Senicka
You should be monitoring the NIC in some service group on the box. A NIC Proxy is used to prevent duplicate monitoring by other service groups From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of i man Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 12:13 PM To: veritas-ha@

Re: [Veritas-ha] question about hastop

2008-05-23 Thread Jim Senicka
Hastop -force -all does not take down resources. But why not add the resources online? Hastop -force -all is really only used for heavy lifting, like upgrading VCS bits. You can add the resources on the fly using CLI or GUI -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Veritas-ha] Veritas Cluster Server 5.0 available for RHEL 5.x

2008-05-22 Thread Jim Senicka
5.0MP3 will add RHEL 5 support. Talk with your rep on release dates? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Stephens Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 11:48 AM To: Goutham N; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] Veri

Re: [Veritas-ha] excessive delay between successive calls to GAB

2008-04-21 Thread Jim Senicka
: Monday, April 21, 2008 11:20 AM To: Jim Senicka; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] excessive delay between successive calls to GAB Jim Senicka wrote: > "Excessive delay between successive calls to GAB heartbeat" > is HAD heart beating GAB, so the network

Re: [Veritas-ha] excessive delay between successive calls to GAB

2008-04-20 Thread Jim Senicka
"Excessive delay between successive calls to GAB heartbeat" is HAD heart beating GAB, so the network should not be in the picture (LLT heartbeat side), unless HAD was blocked trying to get a cluster state update across all nodes and the network was acting weird. You hit it right looking at syste

Re: [Veritas-ha] bundled HP-UX vxfm/vxfs

2008-04-18 Thread Jim Senicka
With SFRAC already installed, shouldn't you have VCS already installed? Sent from my Nokia E62 handheld by goodlink. -Original Message- From: Shashi Kanth Boddula [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 02:12 AM US Mountain Standard Time To: veritas-ha@mailman.

Re: [Veritas-ha] Coordinator disks

2008-04-11 Thread Jim Senicka
Fence won't start if even. Sent from my Nokia E62 handheld by goodlink. -Original Message- From: Joshua Fielden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 04:30 PM US Mountain Standard Time To: Rongsheng Fang; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject:Re: [

Re: [Veritas-ha] Coordinator disks

2008-04-11 Thread Jim Senicka
No. A. It must be an odd number. (otherwise no majority possible) B. You cannot add online. You will need to bounce the cluster (or at least the fence driver) to move to the new array Sent from my Nokia E62 handheld by goodlink. -Original Message- From: Rongsheng Fang [mailto:[EM

Re: [Veritas-ha] VCS -HA memory replacement on one node

2008-03-29 Thread Jim Senicka
Even the freeze is not 100% necessary. If you switch the groups first, and then shutdown, nothing happens to the running groups. Sent from my Nokia E62 handheld by goodlink. -Original Message- From: Sigmund Brandstaetter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 12

Re: [Veritas-ha] Solaris VCS with share stroage in VxFS format how?

2008-03-10 Thread Jim Senicka
I think you are confusing creating 3 disks for VCS I/O Fencing coordinator disks with creating file systems? VCS has no need for any shared file systems on its own. Any requirement mentioned in the docs to shared volumes would be for coordinator disks. Sent from my Nokia E62 handheld by goodli

Re: [Veritas-ha] Question re SFRAC 5.0

2008-02-29 Thread Jim Senicka
Kelly, That is not normal. If the DB is top of the tree, and set to non critical, it should not cause the group to offline. Even after we introduced FaultPropagation and ManageFaults the core Critical/Non-Critical behavior should not have changed. Can you open a case on this? Jim -Original

Re: [Veritas-ha] VCS geographic edition

2008-02-28 Thread Jim Senicka
The VCS HA/DR edition provides the Global Cluster Option and replication management agents. Speak with your Symantec sales rep to obtain the bits? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of osk Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 7:29 AM To: ve

Re: [Veritas-ha] LLT crossed links

2008-02-19 Thread Jim Senicka
I disagree, as long as the SAP stuff is taken care of. 2 dedicated + 2 additional (even sharing a VLAN) is pretty good. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Fielden Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:40 AM To: Ceri Davies Cc: veritas-

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

2008-01-11 Thread Jim Senicka
Offline the service group. That will take storage offline as well Sent from my Nokia E62 handheld by goodlink. -Original Message- From: upen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 06:31 PM US Mountain Standard Time To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject

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

2007-12-28 Thread Jim Senicka
We made a decision to not support VxVM mirror in a GCO environment because it breaks our ability to use SCSI-III based fencing. While you could make the mirror work, it is not a Symantec supported configuration. For dual cluster configs we would require some form of replication.

[Veritas-ha] New VCS course!

2007-12-13 Thread Jim Senicka
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Re: [Veritas-ha] Inbound and outbound traffic

2007-12-13 Thread Jim Senicka
Not really a VCS issue. It really depends on the IP stack from the OS, or modifying the application to bind to a specific IP. Usually the source IP of an outbound packet will be whatever the base address (first address configured) is on that interface. One possible solution is to set the base addre

Re: [Veritas-ha] best way for patching of cluster servers

2007-12-07 Thread Jim Senicka
We will get that resolved (Eric and I). Jim Senicka Sent from my Nokia E62 handheld by goodlink. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 01:11 PM US Mountain Standard Time To: Eric Hennessey Cc: veritas-ha

Re: [Veritas-ha] connectivity delays

2007-11-28 Thread Jim Senicka
If you have multiple NIC's on a single Sun box plugged into a Cisco switch environment using multiple VLAN, use of Local MAC = False may be causing spanning tree reconverge. The switch fabric is potentially discovering duplicate MAC addresses on different VLAN segments and assumes a loop somewhere

Re: [Veritas-ha] connectivity delays

2007-11-28 Thread Jim Senicka
were occurring while you were doing a telnet. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Senicka Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 6:37 AM To: Tihomir Cavuzic; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] connectivity delays What

Re: [Veritas-ha] connectivity delays

2007-11-28 Thread Jim Senicka
What address to you telnet to? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tihomir Cavuzic Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 4:43 AM To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-ha] connectivity delays Hello, Let me introduce my little

Re: [Veritas-ha] Interconnect hardware specifications

2007-11-27 Thread Jim Senicka
A switch? No. 2 switches? Ok. We would be looking for 100BaseT or Gigabit, full duplex. Not so much from a bandwidth standpoint, just reliability. Full duplex removes collision issues. No problems with dedicated switches per interconnect network -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-ha] SF/HA 5.0 on Solaris 9: "HAD Self Check" error

2007-11-13 Thread Jim Senicka
version of VCS (4/5) even at 10% system utilization. And Symantec going "I dunno", is not helpful. Jim Senicka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: HAD is not talking to GAB. Excessive system utilization, or a blocked /var file system or some such issue. __

Re: [Veritas-ha] SF/HA 5.0 on Solaris 9: "HAD Self Check" error

2007-11-13 Thread Jim Senicka
HAD is not talking to GAB. Excessive system utilization, or a blocked /var file system or some such issue. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marianne Van Den Berg Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 1:17 PM To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.au

Re: [Veritas-ha] five clusters in one global cluster?

2007-11-12 Thread Jim Senicka
We do not have plans for more than 4. Since GCO connectivity is only needed for direct cluster to cluster swap of a specific service group, we have not seen a situation where one cluster has a replicated relationship with more than 3 other clusters. For managing DR, the VCS Management Console c

Re: [Veritas-ha] vxio + cpu panic

2007-10-27 Thread Jim Senicka
Please open a support case. Also, this is the VCS list. VxVM and VxFS go under veritas-vx -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Örs Tiszay O Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 6:09 PM To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-ha] v

Re: [Veritas-ha] Adding a LUN in Veritas Cluster

2007-10-09 Thread Jim Senicka
Nothing. Unless you use volume resources in the dependency tree Sent from my Nokia E62 handheld by goodlink. -Original Message- From: Artur Baruchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 05:46 PM US Mountain Standard Time To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-ha] OnlineRetryLimit weird behaviour

2007-10-09 Thread Jim Senicka
Ok, I was wrong here. This is available at group level. Let me do some digging From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Senicka Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 12:37 PM To: Gurugunti, Mahesh; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re

Re: [Veritas-ha] OnlineRetryLimit weird behaviour

2007-10-09 Thread Jim Senicka
Online Retry Limit sets how many times to attempt to online a resource when initial attempt fails. This is not a service group setting From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gurugunti, Mahesh Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 11:54 AM To: ver

Re: [Veritas-ha] change cluster node

2007-09-11 Thread Jim Senicka
: upen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 11:10 AM To: Jim Senicka Cc: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] change cluster node Thanks Jim, I am unaware of the clustering works but I was suggested by colleagues to make it to node2. So, Cluster

Re: [Veritas-ha] change cluster node

2007-09-11 Thread Jim Senicka
cluster service group is a VCS thing. It will not effect your app at all, and does not need to be running for your application to run. It is there for the Web UI and to host the connector if GCO is configured From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Be

Re: [Veritas-ha] Conversion from Assymetric to Symmetric VCS Cluster

2007-09-11 Thread Jim Senicka
Add a second service group and set its auto start list to have node B first From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shivalingam Vanam Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 9:38 AM To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-ha] Conve

Re: [Veritas-ha] regarding veritas ha and apache logs from blackboard

2007-09-05 Thread Jim Senicka
This is pretty much an apache issue, not VCS. If you need to bounce apache to make it happen, you would simply freeze the service group while doing so to keep VCS from reacting, or use VCS to stop/start apache. As for the command to clear logs, I cannot help you there. Sent from my Nokia E62

Re: [Veritas-ha] what shall "monitor" do on nodes not running a SG ?

2007-08-16 Thread Jim Senicka
ssuing log messages every 5 minutes on the offline nodes. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Bueche Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 9:54 AM To: Jim Senicka Cc: Gene Henriksen; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha]

Re: [Veritas-ha] what shall "monitor" do on nodes not running a SG ?

2007-08-16 Thread Jim Senicka
: Jim Senicka; Gene Henriksen Cc: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] what shall "monitor" do on nodes not running a SG ? Hi, sorry, my explanation wasn't good. I try once again : 1. when a node runs a SG and its application, the local "monitor" ru

Re: [Veritas-ha] what shall "monitor" do on nodes not running a SG ?

2007-08-16 Thread Jim Senicka
The monitor should return offline when the app is offline on the node where the monitor is running. Your monitor appears to not run when the app is not running. Where is the monitor routine stored? Does it utilize functions that are only available when the app storage is present? -Original

Re: [Veritas-ha] Fw: gab restarts had

2007-08-09 Thread Jim Senicka
:26 AM To: Kiss László - Károly Cc: Jim Senicka; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] Fw: gab restarts had -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 But it shouldn't be halting the system now, gab will still kill had. Do you have any llt errors or more importantly

Re: [Veritas-ha] Fw: gab restarts had

2007-08-09 Thread Jim Senicka
Do you have a support case open? Other than load, I am unaware of anything in VCS 4.1 which can cause HAD to block From: Kiss László - Károly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 3:19 AM To: Jim Senicka; Peter DrakeUnderkoffler Cc: veritas

Re: [Veritas-ha] Fw: gab restarts had

2007-08-08 Thread Jim Senicka
what OS/Version and what version of VCS? Something is blocking HAD ability to heartbeat GAB From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kiss László - Károly Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 11:38 AM To: Peter DrakeUnderkoffler; Jim Senicka Cc

Re: [Veritas-ha] Fw: gab restarts had

2007-08-08 Thread Jim Senicka
is the system heavily loaded? GAB restarts HAD when HAD does not communicate with GAB for 16 seconds. This usually happens only in super overload situations From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kiss László - Károly Sent: Wednesday, Augus

Re: [Veritas-ha] LLT messages

2007-07-23 Thread Jim Senicka
Usually an excessively high load on the box causing LLT to not get scheduled properly From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Evsyukov, Sergey Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 2:10 AM To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-ha]

Re: [Veritas-ha] Licensing for Storage Foundation Enterprise HA, Cluster File System, Solaris, v5.0

2007-07-16 Thread Jim Senicka
Talk with your rep. Pricing is available per processor or per system. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rongsheng Fang Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 11:44 AM To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-ha] Licensing for Storage Fo

Re: [Veritas-ha] LLTand GAB problem after first rebooting whenconfigured

2007-06-21 Thread Jim Senicka
LLT is not starting right? All other data is non relevant. Fix the llt issue so gab can start so had can start Sent from my Nokia E62 handheld by goodlink. -Original Message- From: Damodharan K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 04:06 PM Mountain Standard Tim

Re: [Veritas-ha] LLTnot configured error after reboot

2007-06-21 Thread Jim Senicka
Is there actually a device in /dev called /dev/qfe:2 ?? Think this should be /dev/qfe2. Sent from my Nokia E62 handheld by goodlink. -Original Message- From: Damodharan K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 10:34 PM Mountain Standard Time To: robertinoau;

Re: [Veritas-ha] LLTnot configured error after reboot

2007-06-21 Thread Jim Senicka
GAB saying LLT not configured means LLT is not running. It is not saying LLT is not configured correctly in llttab Sent from my Nokia E62 handheld by goodlink. -Original Message- From: robertinoau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 11:40 PM Mountain Standard

Re: [Veritas-ha] VCS without Storage Foundation Suite

2007-05-29 Thread Jim Senicka
UFS, yes. SVM, No ZFS, no. You would need to do custom agents for SVM and ZFS. Both will be somewhat problematic from a cluster perspective. ZFS from the standpoint that once you start breaking down storage into small enough chunks to failover per application, most of the cool goes away. SVM from

Re: [Veritas-ha] VCS and VMWare question

2007-05-24 Thread Jim Senicka
Assuming you were running VCS inside the guest, then yes this is possible. So this would be running standard vcs for Linux and not the VCS for VMware package. Sent from my Nokia E62 handheld by goodlink. -Original Message- From: Pavel A Tsvetkov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [Veritas-ha] Patching VCS 3.5

2007-05-23 Thread Jim Senicka
VCS does not support rolling upgrades in that way. You need to check the release notes. I would recommend taking VCS down and leaving the apps up while you patch if at all possible From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Hunter Sent

Re: [Veritas-ha] HAD hear beat error

2007-05-17 Thread Jim Senicka
You are running a high enough CPU loading that HAD is not able to heartbeat with GAB. HAD runs as a real time process, so when this occurs you have a really wedged box. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Damodharan K Sent: Thursday,

Re: [Veritas-ha] sample for apache application

2007-04-30 Thread Jim Senicka
what OS? The Linux 5.0 bundled agent reference guide has the Apache agent documented, and I believe the other OS do as well _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of osk Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 3:01 AM To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-h

Re: [Veritas-ha] Naming conventions for VCS; VCS style guide?

2007-04-24 Thread Jim Senicka
comments below _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colb, Andrew Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 2:14 PM To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-ha] Naming conventions for VCS; VCS style guide? All, We are about to initiate and upgrade sever

Re: [Veritas-ha] Resource Group Dependencies

2007-04-24 Thread Jim Senicka
We are not planning to address that in VCS at this time. (Multiple children). Please have your account team contact me inside Symantec? Also, what are you running that a 40 second shutdown is too long? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ce

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

2007-04-16 Thread Jim Senicka
; Jim Senicka; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] Proxy resource in "status unknown" This started when I copied the resource from another service group. As an aside, is there a reason why resources are defaulted to disabled and critical when they are created

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

2007-04-16 Thread Jim Senicka
The actual NIC is not enabled, so the Proxy cannot probe. (at least that is my first thought here) -Original Message- From: Fred Grieco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 11:29 AM To: Jim Senicka; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-ha] Proxy

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

2007-04-16 Thread Jim Senicka
Are the system lists for both service groups the same? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fred Grieco Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 9:08 AM To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-ha] Proxy resource in "status unknown" I've s

Re: [Veritas-ha] VCS 5.0 / Solaris 10 Resource Controls / Oracle Agent

2007-04-11 Thread Jim Senicka
Bryan Unfortunately, at this time the VCS 5.x agents are pretty much not designed to work in an SRM environment. We are looking at what it will take to support this -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryan Pepin Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Re: [Veritas-ha] Step-by-Step instructions for adding storage to cluster

2007-04-11 Thread Jim Senicka
: Lynette Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 08:04 PM Pacific Standard Time To: Jim Senicka; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject:RE: [Veritas-ha] Step-by-Step instructions for adding storage to cluster Thank you for your response, Jim. Do you have the

Re: [Veritas-ha] Step-by-Step instructions for adding storage to cluster

2007-04-10 Thread Jim Senicka
if you add volumes you will need to add additional volume resources (if you use volume resources) in the service group, plus whatever additional file systems you add as additional file system resources Growing file systems requires no changes in the cluster _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ma

Re: [Veritas-ha] load-balancing in VCS

2007-04-06 Thread Jim Senicka
No, you will need an IP per node and run a off the shelf IP load balancer out front. This is far more standard approach than pumping all traffic through one node and let it forward to all others in the cluster. A serious case of marketecture versus real feature on the Sun Cluster side [Sent f

Re: [Veritas-ha] SCSI-3 reservation over VIO with Veritas Volumes onAIX ?

2007-04-06 Thread Jim Senicka
fencing = SCSI3 reserve. Not possible using VIO. _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pavel A Tsvetkov Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 7:04 AM To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-ha] SCSI-3 reservation over VIO with Veritas Volumes onAIX ?

Re: [Veritas-ha] Custom Agent

2007-04-05 Thread Jim Senicka
If you already have start/stop/monitor, Take a look at the Application Agent in the BARG. That should cover like 98% of apps -Original Message- From: Fred Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 11:47 AM To: 'Stanley, Jon'; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.aubur

Re: [Veritas-ha] Custom Agent

2007-04-05 Thread Jim Senicka
The programming by example is the best bet -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stanley, Jon Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 11:06 AM To: Fred Butler; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] Custom Agent Have you looked at t

Re: [Veritas-ha] Custom Agent

2007-04-05 Thread Jim Senicka
http://eval.symantec.com/mktginfo/products/White_Papers/High_Availabilit y/agent_dev_by_example.pdf Written by Tom Stephens and Eric Hennessey on my team. Fantastic stuff -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fred Butler Sent: Thursday, Apri

Re: [Veritas-ha] SRDF agent over VIO for VCS cluster for AIX -supported ?

2007-04-04 Thread Jim Senicka
Best places to get these answers are your sales team.. _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pavel A Tsvetkov Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 4:19 AM To: Veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-ha] SRDF agent over VIO for VCS cluster for AIX -s

Re: [Veritas-ha] LVMVG agent does work with VIO ! ! !

2007-04-02 Thread Jim Senicka
We have a number of issues with reservations, and breaking reservations and such. So as of now, if the HCL says not supported, it is not. Please work with your account team to find out what can be done (if anything) to get this added _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [Veritas-ha] remove a VRTS license

2007-03-26 Thread Jim Senicka
have you looked at the options to vrtslic? _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kiss László - Károly Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 8:41 AM To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-ha] remove a VRTS license Hi, Is there any possibility to re

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