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ylin-123
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11 years ago

Can I/O fencing disk be cloned?

hi we are trying to do a storage migration which is runnig SFRAC. so our disks are including oracle data disks and 3 I/O fencing disks. my question is can we use storage cloned(hardware replica...
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  • AHerr's avatar
    AHerr
    11 years ago

    Hi Yin,

     

    Yes, we do not recommend replicating the coordinator disks or using them on more than one cluster.  The SCSI3-PGR keys are for access to a single cluster and the data disks.  Cloning them or replicating them would not be useful as the SCSI3 keys are stored on the array.  If data disks are being replicated to a new cluster at a seperate location, it is best to setup a new cluster with their own seperate (not replicated) coordinator disks.

     

    Regards,

    Anthony

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ylin-123
Level 4
11 years ago

hi Novonil,

Thanks for your answer.

for your second link I think will be easier to use vxfenswap utility, right?

https://d1mj3xqaoh14j0.cloudfront.net/public/documents/sfha/6.0/hp-ux/productguides/html/sfcfs_admin/ch15s06s05s02.htm

so hardware cloned fencing disk is not recommend?

 

Allen