From: John Jolet (john.jolet@FXFN.COM)
Date: Wed Apr 28 2004 - 13:46:30 EDT
not really, i try not to mess with the bcv volumes :)
I'm not doing this in an lpar environment, either.
Drew Myers wrote:
>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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