[Veritas-vx] How to encapsulate a root disk already under Veritas VM (SF 5.0):? Weird problem

2007-10-10 Thread Tony Magtalas
Hi there, I was trying to encapsulate a root disk (c0t0d0). When I run vxdiskadm option 2 to encapsulate c0t0d0, it said it was trying to encapsulate, then I was rebooting the server, thinking that the root disk will be encapsulated. Strangely enough, after the server reboots, the root disk

Re: [Veritas-vx] Super weird DMP issue

2007-10-10 Thread Munish Dhawan
Hi David, are you using EMC powerpath in the server. I have seen similar problem recently and a reinstall of powerpath software has solved the problem. I will be interested in vxdisk list and format output (if solaris) also. Please let us know abt the Veritas case update which you have opened.

Re: [Veritas-vx] io issues with EMC CX500 + vxfs_thread

2007-10-10 Thread Munish Dhawan
storage lun is looking okay from the output you have given, what is the block size of the veritas file system . Regards, Munish Andrey Dmitriev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linux /dev/vx/dsk/sundg/u01vol on /u01 type vxfs (rw,delaylog,largefiles,ioerror=mwdisable) -Andrey -Original

Re: [Veritas-vx] How to encapsulate a root disk already under Veritas VM (SF 5.0):? Weird problem

2007-10-10 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:23:29PM +0530, Arjun koneru wrote: if the slices 3 and 4 of your bootdisk are not used for anything - zero them out using format , run vxdctl enable and try the encap again. Probably not a bad idea. But remove the disk from the diskgroup first. -- Darren Dunham

Re: [Veritas-vx] Strange DMPNODENAME

2007-10-10 Thread Hudes, Dana
Only as of Solaris 10 update 4 can you boot from ZFS. AT least, I think you can. Zone roots can definitely go on ZFS, unsure about global zone. I'm researching that question currently. Raw devices = bad idea. PITA (as is preallocated table space, watch the DBAs suck up all available disk space