VCS new volume created. Need to add up under existing Resource Group under 2 node clustered Solaris 10 Server...Important..please assist

Hello Rinku,

I hope you have added volumes in veritas volume manager diskgroup first, if not, following would be commands to do that:

# vxassist -g <diskgroup> make <volume> <size>

Disks of this diskgroup must be located on shared storage.

Create a filesystem
# mkfs -F <fstype> <raw_device>

Create mount points on both the cluster nodes

# mkdir <dir>

Once volumes are created, you need to put them under VCS control.... so you need to add them as resources into a VCS service group:

# hares -add <resource> <resource_type> <service_group>

Add both volumes with above step... your resource type here would be Volume (V is capital)

You will need to modify some attributes of your volume resource which are mandatory

# hares -modify <resource> Enabled 1  (to enable resource>
# hares -modify <resource> Critical 0  (Assume you don't want to make volume as critical resource)
# hares -modify <resource> BlockDevice <block_device>
# hares -modify <resource> DiskGroup <diskgroup>

Finally you have to link volume resource to diskgroup &/OR mount

# hares -link <parent> <child>

Please note in VCS, parent resource depends on child resource, so be careful while linking.... for example in a group where volume depends on diskgroup resource, diskgroup will be child & volume would be parent...

hope this helps

Gaurav