VxVM installation and vxinstall

From: Allen Belk (allen.belk@usm.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 25 2003 - 11:16:32 EDT


Managers,
    I am preparing to install VxVM and plan to use the following disk layout
on a V880 with 12 internal 36GB drives.

c1t0d0s0 -- 32MB for VxVM
c1t0d0s1 -- 32MB for VxVM
c1t0d0s3 -- /
c1t0d0s4 -- /usr
c1t0d0s5 -- /var
c1t0d0s6 -- /tmp
c1t0d0s7 -- /opt

c1t1d0s0 -- 32MB for VxVM
c1t0d0s1 -- 32MB for VxVM
c1t1d0s3 -- remainder for swap

I plan to mirror everything via VxVM. I have had some problems in the past
with VxVM saying that there were not enough slices available for vxinstall
encapsulation to complete. I have read in some of the VERITAS documentation
and on some web resources that VxVM needs two available slices in order to
complete encapsulation. I have met those requirements but it still doesn't
work. If anyone out there has a basic disk layout scheme that works well
with VxVM, some suggestions, warnings or words of wisdom would be greatly
appreciated.

I have also considered using SDS to mirror all of my system slices and then
use a single slice rootdg within VxVM in order to prevent it from using an
entire disk for rootdg - two entire disks if I mirror.

Thanks,

Allen

 | Allen Belk, Systems Administrator III
 | University of Southern Mississippi
 | iTech, Technology Infrastructure Unit
 | allen.belk@usm.edu - 601.266.5973
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