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kwakou's avatar
kwakou
Level 4
10 years ago

ENABLE READ ONLY FOR AN ENCLOSURE WITH DMP

Hello, I have a media server where the disks belonging to a specific enclosure are misbehaving. Their response times are extremely high using vxdmpadm iostat and i can also see from the OS logs th...
AIX
business continuity
Storage Foundation
  • rsharma1's avatar
    rsharma1
    10 years ago

    There is no option to allow only reads from potenially bad luns. You may only disable specific paths or all paths for a lun (vxdmpadm disable path=<pathname>).

    Also, you may consider Removing and Replacing the failing Disks

     

     

     

     

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RiaanBadenhorst
Level 6
10 years ago

Best you backup the data using a decent backup solution. Keeping information on some faulting disk is not a restoration solution. The day that you'll need the data would probably be the day that those disk finally fail completely.