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khemmerl
Level 5
13 years ago

How do I know which disks I'm using

I have a Sun SPARC server with 4 physical disks and fibre channel connections to 6 LUNs on my SAN (3 LUNs are for coordinator disks and 3 are 1TB data disks).  I just completed an installation of SFH...
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    khemmerl
    13 years ago

    Found the answer to my question (and the source of my problem.  You have to use "vxdisk list <disk>" to get the actual number.  I have confirmed that my sys admin is correct: I've screwed the OS disk:

    zpool status lists the OS disks as c0t5000C5003973D783d0s0 and c0t5000C5003976FA07d0s0.

    I used what Veritas reported as disk_2 and disk_3 believing that disk_0 and disk_1 were holding the OS.  Unfortunately, disk_2 reports as c0t5000C5003973D783d0s0 - the same disk that was supposed to be holding the OS.

    Damn.  I hate being screwed.

khemmerl's avatar
khemmerl
Level 5
13 years ago

Found the answer to my question (and the source of my problem.  You have to use "vxdisk list <disk>" to get the actual number.  I have confirmed that my sys admin is correct: I've screwed the OS disk:

zpool status lists the OS disks as c0t5000C5003973D783d0s0 and c0t5000C5003976FA07d0s0.

I used what Veritas reported as disk_2 and disk_3 believing that disk_0 and disk_1 were holding the OS.  Unfortunately, disk_2 reports as c0t5000C5003973D783d0s0 - the same disk that was supposed to be holding the OS.

Damn.  I hate being screwed.