On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 07:07:26PM +0300, Asiye Yigit wrote:
Hello all;
?t is recommended to add raid-5 log device to the volume to recover the
correct data in any case including system crash.
However, I am trying to understand how the data and parity changes are logged
here? Do you
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:39:07AM -0400, William Havey wrote:
I'm curious as to the purpose of putting a slice in a disk group. Why do it?
I know it was a work-around for rootdg requirements. But that's long gone.
*production* purpose? Don't know.
But I used it all the time for testing
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 03:58:47PM +0530, Mohd Aslam wrote:
Is there some way I can define that while mirroring, plex data01-02
used 33GB space from disk02 and rest 50GB space from disk04.
Instead of:
# vxplex -g datadg -o rm dis data01-02
# vxresize -F vxfs -x -g datadg data01 +50g disk03
#
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 03:53:40PM +1030, Robinson, Greg wrote:
I mirrored the data in the normal way, broke the mirror, removed the
disks from the disk group (and this is where I think windows vxvm got
the better of me), and tried to import the disks and create a new disk
group out of them
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 05:45:09PM -0500, Hudes, Dana wrote:
Future release of whose? I can't see Veritas/symantec putting effort
into migrating away from vxfs+vxvm. Now, I could see Larry Ellison
putting money into anything to take business away from any and every
other company so perhaps
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:34:46PM +0200, Asiye Yigit wrote:
Hello All;
Is there any way to convert ZFS to VxFS?
Not in-place. You need to pick it up and move it.
UFS and VxFS have a lot of differences, but compared to ZFS they're
practically identical twins. Writing a converter would be a
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:42:43AM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
Hi all,
I have a LUN that I need to expand via vxresize
vxresize expands volumes and filesystems, not LUNs. Do you have a
volume that is on a LUN that you already expanded?
#df -h .
FilesystemSize Used Avail
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:39:02AM -0700, Victor Engle -X (viengle - Insight
Global at Cisco) wrote:
Can someone direct me to a document with a good explanation of root disk
mirroring and recovery with veritas vxvm 4.1 for Solaris? I have an
encapsulated root disk with a mirror. I think I have
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:47:33AM +0800, ssloh wrote:
Hi folks,
I would like to take out one disk from a concat volume with 3 subdisks and
want to preserve the data, vxprint as following.
v exp -ENABLED ACTIVE 87166976 SELECT-
fsgen
pl exp-01
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 08:56:49AM -0700, Mike Li wrote:
What will be involved to remove c4t2d14s2 from the appldba diskgroup and vm
to give back to EMC SAN?
Backup DB to tape.
stop DB. Unmount filesystems for vol03, vol07,vol08
vxassist -g appldba move vol03 !c4t2d14
vxassist -g appldba
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:51:11AM -0800, Hazel, Geoff wrote:
I have a server I inherited with /export/home at 7GB, with 1.5GB free.
Now, it shows up in vxprint like this:
v home -ENABLED ACTIVE 14363112 SELECT-
fsgen
pl home-01 home ENABLED
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 02:14:16PM -0400, Romeo Theriault wrote:
/etc/vx/diag.d/vxprivutil -D set /dev/rdsk/c2t500A098186E7C997d83s3
dgid=newid_number
/etc/vx/diag.d/vxprivutil -D set /dev/rdsk/c2t500A098186E7C997d83s3
diskid=newid_number
I'm not certain that that is sufficient. It could
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:54:43AM -0500, Barton Wold wrote:
I recently changed jobs and have found that my new place uses Veritas
striped volumes that go to a hardware array that is stripe/mirror'd.
There are a lot of smart people here who have done benchmark testing
to confirm that this is
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 02:09:59PM -0400, Chuck Sedlacko wrote:
Thanks for your help! You were correct on both suggestions. Shrinking
the disk group to a multiple of 16 (in sectors) allowed me to complete
the implementation to move it to the new disk group.
Yay! Glad it worked.
Thanks for
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 03:09:27PM -0500, Asim Zuberi wrote:
Just recently we observed, during the encapsulation of the rootdrive
process the OS native logging option for
/ and swap is getting turned off. Even though, during the OS install the
logging option was explicitly set.
Well, swap
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of the data, written on the disk.
Indicates from 0 to 70703616 are the used blocks.
Ah, but this is the free command. It should be reporting free blocks
and their extent, not used blocks. It shouldn't be showing anything
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calculate the minimum free block requirements
for the relayout process.
I can't guarantee that it's all correct, but there's a technote on
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http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/248062.htm
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contending with all the writes.
Whether those are good or bad numbers depend on what you've purchased to
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with no need to encapsulate anything.
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c1t1d0s2 auto:cdsdiskoradata_disk_01 oradata online
-- rootmirror rootdg failed was:c1t1d0s2
Remove the disk from the diskgroup.
vxdg -g rootdg rm rootmirror. If there are no objects on the disk, it
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behavior, but you can't do it in one step (at least not online
with data present in the plex).
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probably don't have all that many files.
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for other filesystems if you want via
'vxmksdpart' as well (assuming you have free slice numbers).
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data on it. That will remove the VxVM partition
setup on it.
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t8
c1t8d0s2 auto:none --online invalid
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of 'vxresize'.
Use fsadm to shrink the filesystem first, then use vxassist to shrink
the volume.
I think all 'fsgen' does here is give a hint that the filesystem should
be flushed before shrinking the volume, so there shouldn't be a big
problem with using 'vxresize'.
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reattach them.
I think at this point you can start the volume just by running vxvol
start with the 'force' option. Or you can examine the plexes
independently (by attaching thme to their own volumes), make sure one
looks good, then sync with that one.
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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.
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Right. The volume is probably fine (otherwise you'd get read errors
from fsck).
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On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:19:18PM +, A Darren Dunham wrote:
I have a very large backup that failed. This one image spanned several
volumes.
When I look, I see the last volume it used got cleaned up by a bpexpdate
-deassignempty, but the ones written to (and filled) earlier did
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EMC0_2 auto--error
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Do you have the necessary ASLs for the storage installed?
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to be there in general.
Not sure if 4.0 has a bug associated with it.
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(and the associated I/O load) to
verify the volume state after a crash. It's a performance enhancement.
The DRL does not protect consistency.
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of the volumes.
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of this is in the ASL/APM and available only
to VxVM, 'format' and the lower layers don't get the benefit.
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' is trying to read every path, valid or not.
'vxdisk' will instead understand the topology and only try to read
through primary paths unless a failure is detected.
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is running, so it is subject to
many restrictions that are not present for other filesystems.
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Destroying the dg on the mirror disk is pretty simple to script.
Scripting a one-pass re-encap on the other side, I'm not sure. Maybe
'vxencap' will just work, but I'll be it will need to be tweaked.
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be possible to complete the tasks in one
pass rather than two plus reboots.
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DG around
it.
I do not expect LU to do something so wrong that the current boot
environment/DG is compromised.
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configured (sometimes VxVM sets it up as 'vx-rootmirror'). If so, yes.
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it with the nologging option.
While some of the overhead is used for the log, there's quite a bit more
that isn't. Even without logging, Solaris UFS will reserve space for
it's own use (using the variable 'minfree' as the percentage to keep).
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is requiring.
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dm cd_data01dg03 c4t50001FE15005E908d10s2 auto 65536 1048477440 NOHOTUSE
But it's working just like before. What's failing then?
It's a flag that gets set during problems. You can clear it once the
problems have been resolved.
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/184960.htm
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to be difficult to
give any more suggestions. There are many different ways you might have
this configured.
However, the relayout suggestion from Doug is most likely correct.
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from those messages.
That said, I'd attempt to understand what happened to cause the need of
the fsck. Simple crashes or power failures shouldn't do that.
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reconfiguration of the 3300 will be necessary as
well. I don't know how configurable the 3300 RAID is with existing
volumes.
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all means that the volume is back online now. The errors displayed are
not that many. You could get lucky and get all your data back.
Otherwise your alternative is probably to newfs and restore from backup.
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is the output of 'vxdg -g dg1 free'?
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, then reconnect them.
There's a technote on some techniques for recovering a R5 volume:
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/251793.htm
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are currently in use.
VxVM vxresize ERROR V-5-1-7514 Problem running fsadm command for volume
volumea, in diskgroup some-dg
This filesystem wasn't converted from UFS in the past, was it?
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from it, you'll have to reboot.
There's no data copying that would take a long time.
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in. What do you have for 'vxtask -l list'?
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be there.
This is a bit trickier with encapsulated disks. Was there something in
rootdg other than the OS?
Usually I use rootdg only for the OS, allowing me to simply recreate it
without worring about losing data.
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reading your last [ -o args ] on the line and
ignoring any earlier ones. Instead of supplying multiple -o options,
you should supply one with the arguments separated by commas.
-o remount,convosync=direct
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for the
user.
Even with the license, I would still expect downtime, yes? The vxdg
move stuff is much more convenient, but I don't think it's qualitatively
different from the manual method.
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equally. I've never been able to
remove an 'sd' device after boot from Solaris 9.
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disable ...' would be the usual way for a recent
Sun-supplied san driver.
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you'd consider that local.
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LUN, but the
VxVM information about the lun (including its size) would still be of
the old smaller size. Under 3.x and earlier, you would have to delete
the disk, then re-initialize it and recreate the objects (as well as all
the OS stuff you did earlier).
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is
significantly larger than RAM so that buffering in the regular files
cannot be used.
Sounds like a test instance of your actual data would be best. That
would let you test your layout and your access setups. The more you
diverge from that, the less utility the test has.
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are looking. I'm much
less familiar with that than other aspects of VxVM/VxFS.
Google found this page...
http://eval.symantec.com/mktginfo/products/Datasheets/Storage_Server_Management/SF_40_AIX_Perf_Report.pdf
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recent, I thought folks might
be familiar with that fact already.
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vxvm:vxplex: ERROR: Volume dam, block 2147483832: plex copy error:
Invalid argument
Target disks are striped? Concat? Raid5?
184 blocks past (2 * 2^30). Is this a concat with the first 2G on some
device and then moving to one after that? I might guess hardware issues
at that point...
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the
connectivity issue (which presumably would affect your other data on the
SAN as well), or you can create a new rootdg on available storage.
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Change the dg to 'mydg'.
Examine the output of 'vxprint -g mydg -m mydg'. That's the object
containging the attributes you're trying to change.
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and disk.info.old
The reboot -r probably isn't necessary (the OS links are valid), but yes
I would clean up disk.info.
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for Linux. I searched the archives, but couldn't find any
useful hints. Please let me know if this is addressed already in a
FAQ. I know how to build Raid10 volume using vxassist, but that is not
what I was looking for.
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I have another Question can DMp and Powrpath Can Co-exist? What I
think is Yes it can. correct me if iam wrong.
Yes, it can, but you probably only want one of them to attempt to handle
the multipathing of a particular storage device.
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would be trivial. If that shows
errors, it's probably a bad disk.
Just do the normal OS/hardware troubleshooting first.
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technology.
However, if it was something below the VxVM layer, I'd expect other
access methods (format, prtvtoc, dd) to fail as well on the LUN. More
information about what those methods can and cannot do during the
reverse replication would be helpful.
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it. This is quite different from a filesystem intent
log.
So the two logs play very diffent roles.
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that the volume is not online.
What does 'vxprint -g datatdg -ht datavol' show?
Maybe one or more devices that contains the volume is damaged or
offline..
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You have to force it since it shows as 'in use'.
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of the
line. If not, it will show (clean) at the end.
Interesting. I don't know what that line is supposed to indicate at
all. I wonder what it's looking at.
state:state=ACTIVE kernel=ENABLED cdsrecovery=0/0 (active)
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Anything that I'm doing wrong? Would some log file be particularly
helpful?
Master/media server is NBU 5.1 with a small spectralogic library (8mm).
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on the standard host, that's no longer true because you're
re-initializing them.
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. In this cases, you can run vxdisksetup by hand and
use old_layout. In any other case I am aware of, using the default is
fine.
The 'old_layout' option is available in 3.x releases that require it.
Beginning with 4.x, they appear to have renamed it 'noreserve'.
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