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How can i change vxdisk device type ?

Hi , This is the vxdisk status: emcpower8s2 auto:sliced GCdg01 GC1dg online shared emcpower9s2 auto:sliced GC1dg02 GC1dg online shared emcpower10s2 auto:cdsdisk GC1dg04 GC1dg online shared how can i cha...

Resolved! How do I know I have a mirror?

Apologies for what is probably a basic question: How do I know I have a mirror? I set up a disk group and added two disks with the intent that I have the content mirrored between the two. I don't have any training and the support from the vendor we...

Resolved! is it possible to use multipathd with vxvm, and not vxdmp?

Hello, I'm using rhel 5.5 64bit. I would like to know about the possibility of using vxvm with native Linux multipathd instead of the bundled vxdmp pathing software. Is this possible, or recommended? why or why not? Cheers, Marc

Resolved! vxvm vxprint output

Hi experts , please see the following output: v log-alarm - ENABLED ACTIVE 8388608 SELECT - fsgen pl log-alarm-01 log-alarm ENABLED ACTIVE 8388608 CONCAT - RW sd SUN6140-1_1-02 log-alarm-01 SUN6140-1_1 ...

Resolved! EOSS for Veritas File System 5.0 MP3 RP3

We have been encouraged to upgrade from VFS 5.0 MP3 RP3 to VFS 5.1 SP1 RP1. This is going to be a costly upgrade, so we are trying to determine the best time to do this. We are trying to find out the end of support for VFS 5.0 MP3 RP3 on the Symant...

Resolved! Problem with internal FC disk replacement on SunFire 280R

Hello, We replaced failed FC drive and all looks good at OS level. However, under veritas control it is showing as error and everytime we run vxdctl its generating new error devices. We cleaned up the device tree (both veritas and OS : removed disk f...

Resolved! Data Migration

Hello, In our environment we are consolidating storage into fewer arrays replacing the older ones. As usual, we are adding a mirror to the existing file system using new array luns and removing the older ones. And the i'm not happy with the IO perfo...

Resolved! Number of Plexes

Hello, can anyone tell me the maximum number of plexes that can be attached to a volume. Is there any page for such kind of metrics, like, max vol size, max FS size, etc. Can anyone who knows these "Numbers" could create a page?

Resolved! vxresize to shrink FS and to free a disk

Hello, I have to shrink this file system so that disk ndg01 is out of this volume. I tried vxresize different combinations, never got the expected result. # df -h /nmnt Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/vx/dsk/...

Resolved! how to find free initialised disk to add it to dg and extend the file system

Hi I have two nodes configured with sun cluster 3.2. I need to extend one of the file system. My server has free initialized disk. I am trying to find a way to make sure that the disk I selected to add to a dg is not used anywhere else. I have attach...

Resolved! difference in vxdg free and vxassist maxgrow

Hi I need to find a free disk space from allocated disk of a volume. So that I want extend the volume and file system in that disk. df -k|grep -i test /dev/vx/dsk/testdg/test_data02 16514554 15752753 596656 97% /u01/data02/test vxdg -g test...

Minimum stwidth for RAID 0 (Striping) with 2 Disks

Hi, I have a situation here where the recommended block size of the file system to be created is 2 KB and the volume layout is recommended to be stripe. The file system to be used is Veritas File System. Is it possible to create a striped (raid 0) vo...

Resolved! Mounting a Volume after reboot

Hello list I want to learn more about Veritas Storage Foundation Basic. First to test if will be useful for my projects and second to get the knowledge. It hink it could be very useful on a larger XEN environment Step one So under VMware Worksation...

Resolved! Configuration copies disabled

Hi, I executed the command "vxdg list dg" and saw that the configuration copies on most of the disks were in "disabled" state. Only 5 disks had the copies in enabled state except 20. Is this right? Shouln't the copies on all disks be in enabled state...

A Whole New Look: Welcome to the new Symantec Connect

We've just launched our redesigned Symantec Connect site. To view a short video that describes the changes to the site, you can check out: http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/welcome-new-symantec-connect We hope you like it. Thanks for participatin...

Resolved! Disk Failure in Shared Disk Group configuration!!!

Hi Experts, If we create a shared disk group with detach policy as 'local' and fail policy as 'leave', what will be the consequences if a disk on which a mirrored plex is situated, fails or corrupts fully. That is, the disk now is wiped out. I have...

Resolved! Infiniband as interconnect for Veritas Cluster Filesystem?

Does anyone know if Infiniband is supported as the interconnect for Veritas Cluster Filesystem 5.1 on AIX 6.1? Or is ethernet the only option? I haven't been able to find a definitive answer in the documentation.

Resolved! Fulldata and nodataCheckpoint

When data changes in an FS, the old data is pointed by the Checkpoint inodes then what are the differences between the above two types of Checkpoints.

Resolved! difference between vxassist snap & vxsnap

Hi Friends Can anyone point me to what exactly is difference between taking snapshot via vxassist snap options & vxsnap ? our environment uses vxsnap though however was interested to know the difference thanks Pete

Resolved! Disk Error

Dear All, Below is the error messages i am getting from my server root@gtsun3 # vxdisk list DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS c0t0d0s2 sliced rootdisk rootdg online failing c1t0d0s2 sliced c1t0d0s2 ...

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