Re: AIX and symmir

From: John Jolet (john.jolet@FXFN.COM)
Date: Wed Apr 28 2004 - 13:11:33 EDT


ignore previous post...i meant remove the hdisks and reacquire them.

Drew Myers wrote:

>Good morning all,
>
>I've written about this overall topic before, and received excellent
>information, so I hope someone will recognize this wrinkle.
>
>IBM p671 split into 2 LPARs. EMC SAN connected to each LPAR, but
>separate LUNs are visible to each host. I've built BCVs to be
>accessible by one host, regular LUNs visible to the other host.
>
>When I did the initial testing, I was able to establish the BCV mirror,
>split the mirror, and importvg all the volume groups without problem.
>However, I try it now, and the PVIDs and volume group information
>doesn't seem to be getting copied from disk to BCV disk. Here are the
>commands I'm using:
>
>$SYMMIR -g ODWH -full establish DEV001 BCV ld BCV001 \
> DEV002 BCV ld BCV002 \
> .
> .
> DEV040 BCV ld BCV040
>
># run a script to move the DB to "backup mode"
>
>$SYMMIR -g ODWH split -noprompt
>
>At this point, I would expect to see the PVIDs and other information on
>the BCVs that are visible to this particular host. However, they appear
>to be blank, with no PVIDs present.
>
>Any suggestions appreciated.
>
>Drew Myers
>
>



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