Re: SSA Loop Verification Question (graphics)

From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 11:17:45 EDT


Another thought: I would advise against having VGs vary on automatically at
startup, because you can't guarantee that all disks will be available at
that time. Consider the case where you're doing power maintenance, and all
machines are shut down. The sequence in which the machines are started and
their specific hardware configurations will determine at what point the
loops are intact. Any maintenance where you have two or more nodes down at
once could produce problems.

Simon Green
Altria ITSC Europe s.a.r.l.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Verzal
> Sent: 25 April 2003 15:57
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: SSA Loop Verification Question (graphics)
>
>
> Thanks for your thoughts.
>
> Indeed, all 5 nodes would need access to all disks at one
> time or another,
> so it needs to stay in that mode. In terms of outages, this is just a
> backup pool, so if there are hosts down, it is of no concern,
> unless if
> course backups are running. We've never had an instance
> where there were 2
> nodes down, but it could happen of course.



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