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by Ramdev · Published October 26, 2021
Veritas Volume Manager is a storage management application by Symantec , which allows you to manage physical disks as logical devices called volumes. VxVM uses two types of objects to perform the storage management 1. Physical objects – are direct mappings to physical disks 2 . Virtual...
Veritas Administration for unixadmin / VxVM Learning / VxVM Troubleshooting
by Yogesh Raheja · Published February 3, 2012 · Last modified August 22, 2015
A common problem which sometimes we use to see in vxvm is DG’s in disabled state. In this post I will try to provide a solution to this problem. 1.) Check out the outputs of df, vxdisk and vxdg to identify the state of DG’s and...
In gurkulindia.com under Storage Configuration section, we have already discussed many examples on how to expand a filesystem using the new Storage LUNs allocated to a server. There are situations, that storage team sometimes just expands the already assigned LUN to the extra size ( provided...
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...
Recent Posts / Veritas Administration for unixadmin / VxVM Learning
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.
Storage Configs for Unixadmin / VxVM Learning / VxVM Maintenance / VxVM Migrations / VxVM Upgrades
by Yogesh Raheja · Published August 24, 2021
In this post I will try to make a base which is used in Storage Migrations in Unix. I will be taking this post as a base and will post the storage migrations posts with reference to this one. Here I will be considering Solaris OS...
Veritas Administration for unixadmin / VxVM Learning / VxVM Troubleshooting
by Yogesh Raheja · Published January 8, 2022
Procedure for disk replacement under veritas volume manager using vxdiskadm utility. Herein I am trying to present disk replacement under VXVM using vxdiskadm utility. Though the same can be done from command line (which is preferable as well). I will present the same in my coming...
Veritas Administration for unixadmin / VxVM Learning / VxVM Maintenance / VxVM Troubleshooting
by Yogesh Raheja · Published July 11, 2021
Since long time I was thinking to have practical hands-on to how to recover Diskgroup in VXVM (which got faulty and we are unable to import that). But unfortunately I wont have real time outputs with me to show how that can be achieved. But here...
Solaris Admin / Storage Configs for Unixadmin / Unix Intermediate / VxVM Learning / VxVM Migrations
by Ramdev · Published September 26, 2021
This is a following post for my previous SAN migration post Solaris host level SAN migration (with SVM) from Clariion to VMAX. As discussed earlier in my previous post, many organisations started migrating their Server storage from Old legacy SAN devices ( e.g. EMC Clariion )...
Solaris Admin / Solaris Booting / Solaris Disk Management / Solaris Tips / VxVM Fundamentals / VxVM Learning
by Ramdev · Published April 8, 2022
During regular maintenance It is often a requirement to us to determine which disk we actually boot from when the root volume is under volume manager control. Solaris on SPARC Sparc with SVM # prtconf -pv|grep bootpath: bootpath: ‘/sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@1,0:a’ Sparc with VxVM Root Volume...
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