01-12-2014 11:19 PM
Hello,
I would like to share FS between SCO Openserver v6 and AIX (+ Basic Storage Foundation V6.0.3). I created some filesytems on SCO Openserver and maps this LUN to a AIX servers (using SAN capabilities). The servers didn't share the same LUN in the sametime.
# lspv
....
hdisk18 none None
# vxdisk scandisks
# vxdisk -e list
DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS OS_NATIVE_NAME ATTR
....
san_vc1_9 auto:none - - online invalid hdisk18 -
The disk is online but invalid. I suppose that VxFS on SCO Openserver is not compatible with SF 6. But is it true ? and is there a way to solve that ?
Thanks.
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01-13-2014 02:23 AM
So to umount a filesystem in SCO and mount it on AIX is very difficult and probably impossible, so you should use NFS
Mike
01-13-2014 01:31 AM
Hi,
you have created filesystem on SCO but SCO is not having veritas installed... An "online invalid" disk means disk is not intialized in Veritas
As SCO is not a supporting operating system for veritas volume manager, you can't initialize a disk on SCO, rather, you will need to intialize disk in AIX server which will defy the purpose of what you are trying to do, better solution to that would be to procure a new LUN into AIX server directly. Once you issue a "vxdisksetup -i hdiskxxx" , disk will be initialized & brought online in Veritas volume manager.
Once disk is initialized, you will need to put that disk in a diskgroup & then cut veritas volumes.
If the above mentioned disk is coming from SCO to AIX & the disk already has some data in it, if you issue a "vxdisksetup" command on AIX, you may be loosing the data as "vxdisksetup" will write the private & public region.
G
01-13-2014 02:23 AM
So to umount a filesystem in SCO and mount it on AIX is very difficult and probably impossible, so you should use NFS
Mike
01-13-2014 09:48 AM
Hi,
Thanks you for your answers. That confirms what I thought.
The best way is to use NFS between SCO and AIX.
Thierry.
01-15-2014 12:46 AM
I agree with Mike - the only way to share filesystem between SCO and AIX is via NFS.
You need to check each OS for NFS version support.
I have marked Mike's post as solution.