Re: [Veritas-vx] Linux: lvm versus Veritas VxVM?

2010-08-28 Thread Jon Stanley
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Doug Hughes d...@will.to wrote: * in vxvm lets you do everything from raid-0 to raid-6. lvm doesn't do mirror. I'll make a point of contention here. From the lvcreate man page: -m, --mirrors Mirrors Creates a mirrored logical volume

[Veritas-vx] How to tell the utilization state of a cache object?

2008-08-11 Thread Jon Stanley
- - v NBU_CACHE-vol NBU_CACHE ENABLED 104857600 - ACTIVE - - pl NBU_CACHE-vol-01 NBU_CACHE-vol ENABLED 104857600 - ACTIVE - - sd datadg01-03 NBU_CACHE-vol-01 ENABLED 104857600 0-- - -- Jon Stanley Fedora Bug Wrangler [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Veritas-vx] VCS cluster error

2007-08-25 Thread Jon Stanley
Your problem is highlighted below. Keep the private links up and everything will be fine. Also, this is not the proper mailing list for this issue - there's another one, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 8/24/07, Vijay Raghavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *I did some investigation and found the following

[Veritas-vx] DMP node names/disk access names

2007-03-19 Thread Jon Stanley
Got a weird one here. Basically, the question is how does DMP decide what the node name for disk access is on a Linux host? Here's the situation: A host is connected to a 3par array via two HBA's going to two switches. Those switches have two connections each to the 3par, for a total of four

Re: [Veritas-vx] IO Fencing

2007-03-11 Thread Jon Stanley
Sorry for being late on this, but vxfenadm is able to review/remove SCSIR-PR keys as well in 4.1. I've never had to do anything on the storage side in order to recover from a faillure situation. On 3/7/07, Mike Root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vxdisk list will show the disk reservations on the

Re: [Veritas-vx] Storage Foundation Basic CFS

2006-11-22 Thread Jon Stanley
When you purchase SFCFS, you will get along with the media a license key. When you install SFCFS with that license key, the installer is intelligent enough to know that some components are already installed and will not install those components. If you mean using CFS without purchasing SFCFS and

Re: [Veritas-vx] Debugging why devices appear as error

2006-11-11 Thread Jon Stanley
No, like I said, low-level VxVM tools can read the private region of the underlying disk without error. The issue comes in when VxVM attmepts to read it. I can do vxdctl enable's all day and night, and for some odd reason it still doesn't recognize that it's there. Unfortuantely, I can't play