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by Ramdev · Published April 8, 2021
Hot swapping of a failed disk is fairly straight procedure if the disks are regular SCSI disks, but for the Fibre Channel (FC) disks we should follow different procedure for hot swaping. Below specific procedure should be used when replacing one of the internal disks in...
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by Ramdev · Published March 11, 2021
To simplify the Storage addition operation, i just made a quick cheat sheet for your easy understanding and quick reference, since this information cannot be presented as html format i will be sharing it in image format, which you can print and use it as desk...
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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 September 19, 2019
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...
VxVM Learning / VxVM Troubleshooting
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...
Veritas Administration for unixadmin / VxVM Learning
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.
Unix Intermediate / Veritas Administration for unixadmin / VxVM - How to / VxVM Learning
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
Unix Intermediate / Veritas Administration for unixadmin / VxVM - How to / VxVM Learning
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.
Unix Intermediate / Veritas Administration for unixadmin / VxVM - How to / VxVM Learning
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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