From: Sippel, Christian (Christian.Sippel@IZB.DE)
Date: Fri Sep 20 2002 - 10:10:44 EDT
doesn't mirroring the rootvg automatically mean that the paging space is
mirrored as well?
regards,
christian
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> Von: Holger.VanKoll@SWISSCOM.COM[SMTP:Holger.VanKoll@SWISSCOM.COM]
> Antwort an: IBM AIX Discussion List
> Gesendet: Freitag, 20. September 2002 15:52
> An: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Betreff: Re: 6F1 hot swappable?
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> he said the vg is mirrored.
> if this is true for the ps too, no problem. unmirrorvg takes care of all
> lv, including ps.
>
> if not, he has to mirror it first. no big deal imho.
>
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> > Subject: Re: 6F1 hot swappable?
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> > Except you can't do that if hdisk0 has active paging space on it.
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> > I need to replace all four internal disks in my 7025-6F1. I
> > have two volume groups with two disks a piece. Both volume
> > groups are mirrored.
> >
> > My question is, are these disks hot-swappable? If so, all I
> > would need to do to replace a disk would be, say:
> >
> > - unmirrorvg rootvg hdisk0
> > - reducevg rootvg hdisk0
> > - rmdev -l hdisk0 -d
> > - replace the disk with the new one
> > - cfgmgr
> > - extendvg -f rootvg hdisk0
> > - mirrorvg rootvg
> > - bosboot -a -d /dev/hdisk0
> > - bootlist -m normal hdisk0 hdisk1
> >
> > Right?
> >
> > The reason I ask is that I've just finished trying to do the
> > exact same thing with six 7044-270's and had atrocious luck
> > with it. Just one
> > example: after having shut one of them down the system was
> > unable to boot and in the bootlist under SMS there wasn't a
> > single harddisk to chose from, even though I was expecting to see two.
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