Re: LVM, Max PP's and Factoring

From: Williamson, Alan (alan.williamson@SIEMENS.COM)
Date: Tue Sep 23 2003 - 10:03:31 EDT


I need the space to extend some existing lv's, to allow an oracle db to
grow. A separate VG is not an otion here.

Thanks,

Alan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gipson, Mat [mailto:Mat.Gipson@AMERICREDIT.COM]
> Sent: 23 September 2003 14:47
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: LVM, Max PP's and Factoring
>
>
> This may be a dumb question...but what requires these disks
> to be in the
> same VG?
>
> Thanks,
> Mathew Gipson
> matt.gipson@americredit.com
> 817.525.7123
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Williamson, Alan [mailto:alan.williamson@SIEMENS.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 8:25 AM
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: LVM, Max PP's and Factoring
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've got a slight problem with one of my volume groups. I need to add
> more
> disk space, but the disks I need to add are 36Gb SSA, but the volume
> group
> was created with 32Mb PP's. This means I can only have 1016 PP's per
> volume.
> I need more than this to add the 36Gb drives.
>
> I know I could alter the factor to 2 thus giving me 2032 PP's as a max
> per
> volume which would be suffucient, but this would decrease my max PV's
> from
> 32 to 16. I already have 19 disks in the VG.
>
> Q.) What's the easiest way to get around this and add my 36Gb drives.
>
>
>
> Thanks in Advance,
>
> Alan
>



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