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by Ramdev · Published February 18, 2016 · Last modified March 11, 2016
When adding new disks to a Storage Foundation configuration, separate scans are required by the operating system (OS) and by the Storage Foundation application. This post provides information about the commands and procedures that may be used to scan for disks.
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by Ramdev · Published September 18, 2015 · Last modified July 22, 2016
VxVM Beginners Learning Read – VxVM Beginner’s Lesson Read – VxVM Learning with Commands and Examples Read – What is new in VxSF 6.0 Read – Important Definitions of VxVM Read – VxVM Volume States and Plex States Read – Veritas Plex state Transition VxVM How-to...
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by Ramdev · Published June 12, 2014 · Last modified August 5, 2016
Re-adding a disk is same procedure as replacing a failed disk, except we use same disk. We have to detach the disk from vxvm, so that the VxVM will detect the disk failure and will cease access to the failed disk. You can then perform...
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by Yogesh Raheja · Published June 12, 2014 · Last modified August 22, 2015
How to Remove existing filesystems from Veritas Volume Manager: (all the filesystems were under veritas) Sometimes when databases will decommissioned, in that case we need to remove the unused filesystems from the Server in order to clean up the storage. Below is the complete process which will present how...
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by Ramdev · Published June 12, 2014
VCS uses the Group Membership Services/Atomic Broadcast (GAB) protocol for cluster membership and reliable cluster communications. GAB has two major functions. It handles the following tasks: Cluster membership Cluster communications To configure GAB Set up an /etc/gabtab configuration file on each...
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by Ramdev · Published June 12, 2014 · Last modified August 22, 2015
Growing mirrored veritas volumes takes special care since it is desirable to keep each side of the mirror (plex) on different controllers. This procedure requires use of the GUI and command line interface.
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by Ramdev · Published March 14, 2014 · Last modified July 23, 2016
Below examples will help you to understand Veritas Dynamic Multipathing administration using vxdmpadm. To display the usage message for all vxdmpadm commands, enter: # vxdmpadm help To obtain a usage message for listctlr, use the command: # vxdmpadm help listctlr
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by Ramdev · Published March 9, 2014 · Last modified August 22, 2015
Below commands will show to remove a VxVM Control. Force deconfiguration of a VxVM-initialized disk, enc3_5: # /etc/vx/bin/vxdiskunsetup -C enc3_5 Shred a VxVM-initialized disk, hds9970v0_14, with 3 passes.
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by Ramdev · Published March 7, 2014 · Last modified August 22, 2015
The majority of Veritas Volume Manager utilities use a common set of exit codes, which can be used by shell scripts or other types of programs to react to specific problems detected by the utilities. The number for each distinct exit code is described below.
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by Ramdev · Published March 6, 2014 · Last modified August 22, 2015
The following example output shows one volume, mkting, as being unstartable: # vxinfo [-g diskgroup] [volume …] home fsgen Started mkting fsgen Unstartable src fsgen Started rootvol root Started swapvol swap Started
