Why I can't create Disk group with VXVM3.5 under HP-UX11.11i

[snowmountainfox]

Can anybody would help me with the below,

I was asked to connected some LUN to our HP-UX servers(11.11i) which we have founcation suite (VXVM3.5/VXFS3.5)----It can only installed with this version for the HP-UX11.11i.  I was told not need to install VXVM because HP-UX11i already has VXVM3.5 installed. So I only install VXFS3.5.

however, after I installed VXVM3.5, I found I couldn't create disk group, so I can't go to the next step to create veritas volume.

Under HP-UX11.11I, I did

# vxinstall,

after than when I try to create a dg, I got error like below:

# vxdg init opl_vxdg1 vxdg1_vxdisk4=c4t0d4

vxvm:vxdg: ERROR: Disk group opl_vxdg1: cannot create: vxconfigd is currently disabled

And I check the VX daemon, I found vxconfigd may has problem like below:

# ps -ef |grep vx

    root    32     0  0 20:13:04 ?         0:00 vxfsd

    root  1667     1  0 20:15:26 ?         0:01 /opt/VRTSob/bin/vxsvc -r /etc/vx/isis/Registry

    root  2559     0  0 20:16:55 ?         0:00 vxiod

    root  2561     1  0 20:16:55 ?         0:00 vxconfigd -k -r reset -m disable

What is my problem and how I fix it.

Thanks for your help, appreciate in advanced.

-Charles

Rogers Communication.

Canada

[mikebounds]

vxconfigd is running in mode "disable".

Try running "vxconfigd -k -m enable" - this kills (-k) current daemon and starts vxconfigd in enable mode (-m).

Mike

[snowmountainfox]

# vxdisk list                                                                          #vxdisk work at this time when "vxconfig" is in disable mode.
DEVICE       TYPE      DISK         GROUP        STATUS
c3t5d0       simple    -            -            LVM
c3t6d0       simple    -            -            LVM
c4t0d0       simple    -            -            LVM
c4t0d1       simple    -            -            LVM
c4t0d2       simple    -            -            LVM
c4t0d3       simple    -            -            LVM
c4t0d4       simple    -            -            online
c4t0d5       simple    -            -            online
c4t0d6       simple    -            -            online
c4t0d7       simple    -            -            online
c4t1d0       simple    -            -            LVM
c4t1d1       simple    -            -            online
# ps -ef |grep vx
    root    32     0  0 08:22:05 ?         0:04 vxfsd
    root  3825     0  0 09:03:36 ?         0:00 vxiod
    root  3827     1  0 09:03:37 ?         0:00 vxconfigd -k -r reset -m disable

# vxconfigd -k -m enable
vxvm:vxconfigd: ERROR: enable failed: Error in disk group configuration copies
        No valid disk found containing disk group; transactions are disabled.
# ps -ef |grep vx
    root    32     0  0 08:22:05 ?         0:06 vxfsd
    root  3825     0  0 09:03:36 ?         0:00 vxiod
    root  5106     1  0 09:13:34 ?         0:00 vxconfigd -k -m enable
# vxdisk list
vxvm:vxdisk: ERROR: Cannot get records from vxconfigd: Record not in disk group
#   

What should I do next?

thanks again

-Charles

[Gaurav_S · Accepted solution]

vxvm 3.5 mandatorily needs a rootdg, here we see that you don't have rootdg in place, first I would prefer to is get a rootdg in place with one or multiple disks & then fix rest.

have a look at this post & see if this helps:

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/vxvm-35-critical-issue-all-dgs-are-disappeared

Gaurav

[snowmountainfox]

-Charles

Rogers Communication.

[Marianne]

You say that you did run vxinstall?

What were the choices that you made during this process? Did you choose a disk to be encapsulated or initialized as rootdg?

Also have a look at the following posts:

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/vxvmvxconfigd-error-enable-failed-configuration-daemon-error-1#comment-4734271

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/best-way-bring-data-diskgroup-online-after-root-disk-replaced

[TonyGriffiths]

Hi

As others pointed out, the older versions of VxVM require that one or more disks are placed into a unique diskgroup named rootdg. This should have been done as part of the VxVM installation/configuration (vxinstall).

Once you have a rootdg, you can create other disk groups. One limitatio is that rootdg is not as portable as other disk groups - i.e it cannot be deported an imported on an other server.

is this a fresh install/configure of VxVM or has it been running for some time ?

cheers

tony

[snowmountainfox]

Thanks you all Gaurav/Tony/Marianne and Mike for quick fix, it is the rootdg issue. I have SF4.X/5.X in my shop that running Solaris/RHEL which not has the issue. Great appreciate for you quick fix. 

have a great time.

-Charles

Rogers communication Inc

www.rogers.com

Toronto, Canada.