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Need a solution for volumes

root@refadm1-oss1:/tmp# vxdisk list DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS c0t5006016047201339d0s2 auto:sliced disk2 ossdg online c0t5006016047201339d1s2 auto:sliced disk3 sybasedg online c0...

Resolved! Learning Storage Foundation

Hi All, I am interested in learning storage foundation for unix / solaris and windows. I have discussed with my fellow colleagues at work to get some understanding of the product itself and have seen some videos too. Can someone guide me on setting u...

DMP / VCS configuration looks ok, but OS shows errors

Goodday, I have a VCS running, as far as I can tell, everything looks ok. It is a 2 node cluster directly (no switch) connected to a SUN/LSI/ 6180 diskarray. The connections look ok. DMP shows no errors but in the messages file on the OS it is cons...

Troubleshooting volume performance in Storage Foundation

Hi, all. We have released a set of articles about troubleshooting volume performance in Storage Foundation. Here is the link: "Troubleshooting volume performance in Veritas Storage Foundation" http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH202712 Sinc...

Resolved! Shrinking large filesystem spanned across multiple luns

Hello, we have a mirrored/raid1 volume of 1TB spanned across two arrays (80 luns from each array) and its usage is now 400G (at some point usage was 850G). We need to shrink the filesystem to 500G so that we can utilize the space for new filesystem. ...

Resolved! CVM/CFS on Solaris

Dear All, I would like to create a VCS cluster of 2 nodes that will have the CFS mounted on both of them. Once the CFS is mounted into the cluster I want to get it shared to the system that is not part of VCS cluster. My question is it possible if no...

Resolved! How to break VRTSvxvm root mirror for patching

I found some information on this site, just want to cover my bases before doing it on our production system: prtconf -vp|grep bootpath root@discus2 # prtconf -vp|grep bootpath bootpath: '/ssm@0,0/pci@18,700000/pci@1/SUNW,isptwo@4/sd@...

New set of articles about troubleshooting the "failed" disk status, as reported by vxdisk

Hi, all. We have released a set of articles that contain information about troubleshooting the "failed" disk status, as reported by vxdisk. Here is the link: "Failed" or "failed was" is reported by vxdisk http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH...

Resolved! Symantec Partner Accreditation Interview for Storage Foundation 6.0 for Unix

I have successfully passed Symantec Technical Specialist assessment of Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0 for Unix with a very good score. I had already passed both sales certifications (SSE & SSE+) of Storage Foundation 6.0 While preparing for STS asse...

Resolved! How to remove LUN after house keeping

Hi, There are 3 LUNs (450GB each) for a file system (1.3TB). Now the file system used only 25GB, is it possible to remove some LUN on line? OS: Solaris 10 Veritas Foundation Suite: 5.0 Fstyp: Vxfs Thanks in advance.

Resolved! Veritas Volume Manager problem

We have 2 Sun 3510 arrays each containing three disks. VxVM, on Solaris 10 for SPARC, has been set up to mirror each disk, ie Array 1 Disk 1 is mirrored to Array 2 Disk 1 etc etc. We had a problem with the power to the controller of array 2 and the d...

Resolved! Patch missing for some components

My query. I was updating SFHA 5.0 MP3RP3 with the rolling patch of MP4RP1. The patch I downloaded did not contain any instalmp or installrp script. There were respective directories in which rpms were available. I had to to rpm -Uvh *.rpm to install ...

Resolved! What is the difference between sfha, vm & fs titled rolling patch for SFHA

I have one of the enviorment of SFHA 5.0MP3, I am planning to upgrade 5.0MP3RP3 on RedHat 5.3 64 Bit while searching for patch of RP3, i found three rolling patch i.e. sfha-rhel5_x86_64-5.0MP3RP3 vm-rhel5_x86_64-5.0MP3RP3 fs-rhel5_x86_64-5.0MP3RP3 Pl...

Resolved! Fencing with iSCSI disks

I have my test cluster configured with iSCSI disks. I tried to configure fencing with iSCSI as well with no success. The vxfentsthdw utility failing to test the disk always on the same test for all three disks I tried. Could it has something to do wi...

SF upgrade from 4.1 to 6.0 on Sol 10 - will upgrade thru installer work?

Folks, I am planning an upgrade of SF4.1 to SF6.1 on a Solaris 10 cluster. Has anyone tried such upgrade using the installer upgrade option? Did it work? I would like to avoid doing a manual pkg uninstall followed by installer installation. Thanks Wo...

Resolved! How to increase size of a VXFS in VCS solaris cluster

Are these the steps: 1)Ask storage team to present LUN's 2)LUN's get presented 3)NOTE LUN's from top of format output example: c7t50060161106023B8c43 4)run devfsadm on all THREE nodes 5)LABEL Luns using format utility(NO NEED TO PARTITION LUN's) exa...

Resolved! Disk with red cross in GUI

Hi, Not sure why the disk displaying in GUI (vea) shows red cross but there is no problem using command line eg: vxdisk. Is there a way to eliminate the red cross in GUI? Thanks in advance.

Resolved! How to change attr

Hi, We are using Solaris 10; SUN cluster; Veritas Volume Manager and HDS storage with true copy (replication). Below is the output of "vxdisk -e list": # vxdisk -e list DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS OS_NATI...

Resolved! Veritas operations manager for SF Unix

hi team, i created a virtual Solaris 10 machine on Vmware and i have installed Storage Foundation Standard in it. I need a GUI interface to manage and administer SF. I downloaded VEA and VOM (add ons) both. i installed the VEA package VRTSobgui...

VxVM 4.1 Storage Migration - From 38G disks to 33GB disks, how to do?

Can someone point me in the right direction? Additional info: Volumes are striped, using both filesystem and raw (oracle Database). Can also reconfigure the destination disk to be 66GB. Presenting approx 1/2 the number of disks. My OS admin says I ne...

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