This page is meant as a repository for helpful hints for managing
Sun storage producs using DiskSuite or Veritas Volume Manager. All
content is contributed by users and thus unverified.
For a quick leg-up on vxvm you might like this link
Also, Chapters 1-3 of SEVM 2.6 volume manager are still online at Sun
and still provide an excellent overview of how VxVM works, while being
a little short on new product features like the ability to relayout
a volume (first appearing in VxVM3.1). The answerbook volume is available
here.
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Upgrading VxVM versions or Solaris OS is easy
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Seth Rothenberg
contributes some experiences
with SSA-112s, Veritas FirstWatch, and DiskSuite.
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How to disable DMP (if wanting to use A3500 or Alternate pathing (AP))
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SparcStorage Array 1XX power supply issues
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E3500 internal FC drive replacement procedure
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another E3500 internal FC drive replacement procedure
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Regenerating parity on a Raid-5 volume
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Move a volume from one dg to another without destroying it.
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Doing a new VxVM install quickly without reboots and without encapsulation (e.g. scripting)
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How to take a single physical disk and put parts of it in two separate disk groups (e.g. use your OS emergency mirror also as a place to put
RAID5 logs).
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Procedure to replace a failed or failing primary VxVM rootdisk
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How do I re-organize a disk to compact out space from grow, move, and other operations (i.e. consolidate the free space holes)
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How do create and attach a raid-5 log plex by hand (or maybe you're just curious what's going on behind the scenes)
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How do I setup VxVM without encapsulating my rootdisk?
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How do VxVM versions correspond to SEVM versions and VMSA versions and VxVA versions, and Solaris OS versions?
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No suitable partition from swapvol to set as the dump device
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What are some good tools for measuring/benchmarking the performance of my volumes/filesystems?
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What is the difference between a gen and a fsgen VxVM volume?
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Solstice DiskSuite vs. Veritas Volume Manager (SDS vs. VxVM). Features, benefits, drawbacks, table comparison
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Looking for a better notification mechanism for SDS or VxVM in the event of disk or other failures?
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How do I do quotas over NFS with VxFS filesystem?
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Moving a rootdg to another system or taking disks out of existing rootdg to another dg
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DMP issues between VxVM and Hitachi arrays
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Sun best practices paper for VxVM (PDF) and a
supplement with
more specifics on the boot disk.
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How to find out the percentage of completion of an atomic copy or mirrored plex
resync?
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PatchPro online configurator will advise you of the patches for many combinations of hardware and software (Veritas and/or Sun).
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Using a spare mirror as a means of archiving or backing up a filesystem
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Building a stripe pro volume bottom-up
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Poor man's failover using VxVM and diskgroups
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Installing an A1000 on Solaris8
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Simple mirroring without DiskSuite and without Veritas (using cron)
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Replacing disks in D1000
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Automatically encapsulating rootdisks during jumpstart
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Mirroring quickly on an empty volume
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Recovery of root password (or other file) on SDS
mirrored root disks.
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How to inform VxVM that the hostname has changed