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Resolved! What is the difference between SFCFS and SFCFSHA ?

Hi all, we are thinking of cluster file system. I used SF for Oracle before (about 2 years ago) and have a look at cluster filesystem solutions from Symantec. I found that there are two solutions with cluster file system (am I right there are two ?...

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Resolved! Whta is LUN mapping

hi All,   Can anybody tell me what is LUN mapping in basic terms.   I know what is the difference between zoning and LUN masking. But what is this LUN mapping and what happens if we do not do LUN mapping?   host            san switch          ...

noazara by VIP
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Support using SFHA 6.1 for Java GUIs

Can Symantec clarify Support for SFHA 6.1 for Java GUIs: "Veritas Enterprise Administrator 3.4.30 READ ME (Solaris)" from https://www4.symantec.com/Vrt/offer?a_id=89446  says: SUPPORTED PLATFORMS ----------------------------------- Operating System...

mikebounds by Level 6
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Resolved! service group

hi, Please there could be the case when a resource goes offline temporarily,then it goes online?i.e. an disk goes offline temporarily then goes online,thus the service group that contain this resource will failover.is right? Or if there is a long q...

ousor by Level 4
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Resolved! fencing

hi, in a vcs cluster with fencing device,every node will write its register key on fencing device?What is member ship register key?If hearbeat paths fails,then vxfen driver will panic the node,if this node lost the race to acquire the fencing devices...

ousor by Level 4
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Resolved! vcs

hi, vcs works also with lvm,svm,zfs? please what happens when disk coordinator is not seen by any node in vcs,and i try to start the vcs?tnx a million.

ousor by Level 4
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Resolved! split brain

Hi, If I have 2 nodes vcs with fencing devices,and I experience "split brain",then the fenced node will be taken out of vcs.This node will panic and then reboot,but will not join to vcs.So in this case this node is up and running but not vcs started....

ousor by Level 4
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Setting A/A array to Active/Standby in DMP

I have an A/A array and one the controller has frequent intermittent errors, so I want to get the good controller as the primary and the faulty controller to standby until the controller is fixed.  I have looked at vxdmpadm commands and I am little c...

mikebounds by Level 6
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Resolved! cvm

hi, glm traffic goes over private network?I mean when i access a file on cfs,the information about it travells over private network? When i create a file on cfs i must create it on master node or i could on any node(slave)?tnx a million.

ousor by Level 4
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Resolved! vxfen

hi, I wish to verify to fencing mechanism. Let`s say we have 10 nodes in vcs and we start all of the nodes.After the vcs is up and running one of those nodes write the keyregistration on coordinator device group.is right? Or maybe all the nodes write...

ousor by Level 4
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Resolved! Unistall Veritas VXVM & VCS from LINUX 5.8

Hi, We have 2 node cluster, now we have to shutdown 1 node & kept both DB & CI on single node, for this activity i need to remove veritas (vxvm + vcs) from servers & create LVM file system for both DB & CI. I need help for unistall veritas from bot...

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Storage Foundation (Storage Checkpoints on Oracle)

Hello Experts (if you're out there)   I'm running Oracle 11gR2 on Rhel 6.2 with SFHA 6.0.x and have configured the SFDB and can take checkpoints and restore them. But this doens't really mean my database is up and running again. Once you restore fr...

RiaanBadenhorst by Moderator
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Resolved! Disk/ DG name missing

I have a question regarding  VG name.  One of the DG was missing and this DG had only one disk. When I looked at the disk list, DISK was missing too.  The reason DG is missing since it had only one disk and all the private and prublic info gone.  Am ...

mokkan by Level 6
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Resolved! Creating ext4 file system on a vx volume?

Long story short, we are trying to utilize block based backups for some 30 million files on a 2 node A/P VCS. Product will not support vxfs, and one of our ideas was to simply keep the vxvm pieces so the scripting and VCS controls all work the same, ...

vxlist report wrong disk size

hello i run vxlist , but found some disks are report as xxz not xxg. please review at the screenshot. please help . thank you.

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Resolved! DMP and MPxIO doubt

All the LUNs are under vxvm. If I want to use MPxIO instead of DMP for those LUNs, what is the proper method to do it? I have seen a method saying that we need to delete dmp/rdmp directories... is it required? Should I disable DMP in any way or I jus...

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Resolved! cvm

Hi, Based on llthosts information had know on what node to start an service or to failover this service(failover list).right? If this llthosts is missing then no service will be bring online.right?     If an service group has restart limit=1 and...