Solved: Mirroring Veritas Volume Manager error

andrich · ‎03-23-2015

Hello Everybody

I am trying to add a mirror disk into a Oracle disk group, bue it shows this message:

VxVM WARNING V-5-2-1563 There is insufficient space on disk

The origin disk has 150GB and the new disk has 200GB.

Any idea ?

Alexandre Andrich

mikebounds · ‎03-24-2015

As Riaan says, try using vxassist, although command is not quite correct - should be:

vxassist -g lic1dg mirror vol01

The issue could be that your disk is called "diskname" and since vxdiskadm is just a frontend shell script which calls underlying vx commands, it could be that "diskname" confuses it and it would be a good idea to rename anyway and I would personally rename both disks and you should rename subdisks also to avoid confusion and this can all be done online:

vxedit -g lic1dg rename lic1dg01 lic1dg02
vxedit -g lic1dg rename diskname lic1dg01
vxedit -g lic1dg rename diskname-01 lic1dg01-01

Mike

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mikebounds · ‎03-23-2015

Please provide output from vxprint -th and the command you are trying to run.

Mike

andrich · ‎03-23-2015

svmmdesenv:/# vxdiskadm

Volume Manager Support Operations
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk

1 Add or initialize one or more disks
2 Encapsulate one or more disks
3 Remove a disk
4 Remove a disk for replacement
5 Replace a failed or removed disk
6 Mirror volumes on a disk
7 Move volumes from a disk
8 Enable access to (import) a disk group
9 Remove access to (deport) a disk group
10 Enable (online) a disk device
11 Disable (offline) a disk device
12 Mark a disk as a spare for a disk group
13 Turn off the spare flag on a disk
14 Unrelocate subdisks back to a disk
15 Exclude a disk from hot-relocation use
16 Make a disk available for hot-relocation use
17 Prevent multipathing/Suppress devices from VxVM's view
18 Allow multipathing/Unsuppress devices from VxVM's view
19 List currently suppressed/non-multipathed devices
20 Change the disk naming scheme
21 Get the newly connected/zoned disks in VxVM view
22 Change/Display the default disk layouts
23 Mark a disk as allocator-reserved for a disk group
24 Turn off the allocator-reserved flag on a disk
list List disk information

? Display help about menu
?? Display help about the menuing system
q Exit from menus

Select an operation to perform: 1

Add or initialize disks
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/AddDisks
Use this operation to add one or more disks to a disk group. You can
add the selected disks to an existing disk group or to a new disk group
that will be created as a part of the operation. The selected disks may
also be added to a disk group as spares. Or they may be added as
nohotuses to be excluded from hot-relocation use. The selected
disks may also be initialized without adding them to a disk group
leaving the disks available for use as replacement disks.

More than one disk or pattern may be entered at the prompt. Here are
some disk selection examples:

all: all disks
c3 c4t2: all disks on both controller 3 and controller 4, target 2
c3t4d2: a single disk (in the c#t#d# naming scheme)
xyz_0 : a single disk (in the enclosure based naming scheme)
xyz_ : all disks on the enclosure whose name is xyz

Select disk devices to add: [<pattern-list>,all,list,q,?] list

DEVICE DISK GROUP STATUS
emcpower0 diskname bgw1dg online
emcpower1 diskname lic1dg online
emcpower2 diskname ora1dg online
emcpower3 diskname fmm1dg online
emcpower4 arch1dgemcpower4 arch1dg online
emcpower5 lic11dg01 lic11dg online
emcpower6 bgw11dg01 bgw11dg online
emcpower7 ora11dg01 ora11dg online
emcpower8 fmm11dg01 fmm11dg online
emcpower9 - - online invalid
emcpower13 bgw1dg01 bgw1dg online

Select disk devices to add: [<pattern-list>,all,list,q,?] emcpower9
Here is the disk selected. Output format: [Device_Name]

emcpower9

Continue operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y) y
You can choose to add this disk to an existing disk group, a
new disk group, or leave the disk available for use by future
add or replacement operations. To create a new disk group,
select a disk group name that does not yet exist. To leave
the disk available for future use, specify a disk group name
of "none".

Which disk group [<group>,none,list,q,?] (default: none) lic1dg

Use a default disk name for the disk? [y,n,q,?] (default: y)

Add disk as a spare disk for lic1dg? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)

Exclude disk from hot-relocation use? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)

Add site tag to disk? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)
The selected disks will be added to the disk group lic1dg with
default disk names.

emcpower9

Continue with operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y)
Initializing device emcpower9.

Enter the desired format
[cdsdisk,sliced,simple,q,?] (default: cdsdisk) sliced

Enter desired private region length
[<privlen>,q,?] (default: 65536)
VxVM NOTICE V-5-2-88
Adding disk device emcpower9 to disk group lic1dg with disk
name lic1dg01.

Add or initialize other disks? [y,n,q,?] (default: n) n

Volume Manager Support Operations
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk

1 Add or initialize one or more disks
2 Encapsulate one or more disks
3 Remove a disk
4 Remove a disk for replacement
5 Replace a failed or removed disk
6 Mirror volumes on a disk
7 Move volumes from a disk
8 Enable access to (import) a disk group
9 Remove access to (deport) a disk group
10 Enable (online) a disk device
11 Disable (offline) a disk device
12 Mark a disk as a spare for a disk group
13 Turn off the spare flag on a disk
14 Unrelocate subdisks back to a disk
15 Exclude a disk from hot-relocation use
16 Make a disk available for hot-relocation use
17 Prevent multipathing/Suppress devices from VxVM's view
18 Allow multipathing/Unsuppress devices from VxVM's view
19 List currently suppressed/non-multipathed devices
20 Change the disk naming scheme
21 Get the newly connected/zoned disks in VxVM view
22 Change/Display the default disk layouts
23 Mark a disk as allocator-reserved for a disk group
24 Turn off the allocator-reserved flag on a disk
list List disk information

? Display help about menu
?? Display help about the menuing system
q Exit from menus

Select an operation to perform: 6

Mirror volumes on a disk
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/Mirror
This operation can be used to mirror volumes on a disk. These
volumes can be be mirrored onto another disk or onto any
available disk space. Volumes will not be mirrored if they are
already mirrored. Also, volumes that are comprised of more than
one subdisk will not be mirrored.

Mirroring volumes from the boot disk will produce a disk that
can be used as an alternate boot disk.

At the prompt below, supply the name of the disk containing the
volumes to be mirrored.

Enter disk name [<disk>,list,q,?] list

Disk group: fmm11dg