Re: AIX and symmir

From: Drew Myers (myersd@VANGUARDCAR.COM)
Date: Wed Apr 28 2004 - 13:27:48 EDT


Thanks John...trying that now. Any idea why this happened, and/or how I
can prevent it in the future?

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 12:11, John Jolet wrote:
> 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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