import disk group (which is deported in VxVM 3.1) in VxVm 4.0

From: Asiye Yigit (Asiye.Yigit@gantek.com)
Date: Sun Jun 20 2004 - 04:12:04 EDT


Hi,

I have VxVm 3.1 configuration in one machine. I need to migrate the data
(on the SAN LUNs)
to the new hardware on which installed VxVM 4.0.

On the old machine, I have done the following:

1. stop all activity by applications. Unmount file systems.
2. vxvol -g alcateldg stopall
3. vxdg deport alcateldg

I have installed the new machine. After installation of VxVM 4.0,

I have run the following:

1. vxdg import alcateldg
2. vxrecover -g alcateldg -sb

The old machine's hostname is uranus. The new machine's name is titan.

I get the following.

# vxdg list
NAME STATE ID
rootdg enabled 1087675539.17.titan
alcateldg enabled 1087658143.1113.uranus
#

The first questions is that, why the disk group id is still pointed to
the old macihe's hostname although
I do the work according to the procedure (I think i use the correct
procedure ???).
To clear old disk grouo ID, I have run the (vxdg -C import alcateldg).
However,
anything is not changed.

Actually, I have mounted the LUNS and I have accessed the data in them.

# df -k
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/vx/dsk/bootdg/rootvol
                     6638682 2790855 3781441 43% /
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
swap 2422048 40 2422008 1% /var/run
swap 2422008 0 2422008 0% /tmp
/dev/vx/dsk/alcateldg/alcvol01
                     1966056 9832 1759619 1% /alcatel01
/dev/vx/dsk/alcateldg/alcvol02
                      983020 9832 874886 2% /alcatel02
/dev/vx/dsk/alcateldg/alcvol03
                      983020 9832 874886 2% /alcatel03
#

The strange thing to me, the vxprint -Aht command output.
There are some extra volumes, such as,

v alcvol03-L01 - ENABLED ACTIVE 1048576 SELECT
- fsgen
pl alcvol03-P01 alcvol03-L01 ENABLED ACTIVE LOGONLY CONCAT
- RW
sd alcatel07-03 alcvol03-P01 alcatel07 0 33 LOG
c0t2d0 ENA
pl alcvol03-P02 alcvol03-L01 ENABLED ACTIVE 1048576 CONCAT
- RW
sd alcatel07-04 alcvol03-P02 alcatel07 3591 1048576 0
c0t2d0 ENA
pl alcvol03-P03 alcvol03-L01 ENABLED ACTIVE 1048576 CONCAT
- RW
sd alcatel04-03 alcvol03-P03 alcatel04 1048707 1048576 0
c0t3d0 ENA

v alcvol03-L02 - ENABLED ACTIVE 1048576 SELECT
- fsgen
pl alcvol03-P04 alcvol03-L02 ENABLED ACTIVE LOGONLY CONCAT
- RW
sd alcatel07-05 alcvol03-P04 alcatel07 33 33 LOG
c0t2d0 ENA
pl alcvol03-P05 alcvol03-L02 ENABLED ACTIVE 1048576 CONCAT
- RW
sd alcatel03-04 alcvol03-P05 alcatel03 5778 1048576 0
c0t22d0 ENA
pl alcvol03-P06 alcvol03-L02 ENABLED ACTIVE 1048576 CONCAT
- RW
sd alcatel05-03 alcvol03-P06 alcatel05 1048707 1048576 0
c0t5d0 ENA

The full output of the vxprint -Aht command output is the following:

# vxprint -Aht
Disk group: rootdg

DG NAME NCONFIG NLOG MINORS GROUP-ID
ST NAME STATE DM_CNT SPARE_CNT APPVOL_CNT
DM NAME DEVICE TYPE PRIVLEN PUBLEN STATE
RV NAME RLINK_CNT KSTATE STATE PRIMARY DATAVOLS SRL
RL NAME RVG KSTATE STATE REM_HOST REM_DG REM_RLNK
CO NAME CACHEVOL KSTATE STATE
VT NAME NVOLUME KSTATE STATE
V NAME RVG/VSET/CO KSTATE STATE LENGTH READPOL
PREFPLEX UTYPE
PL NAME VOLUME KSTATE STATE LENGTH LAYOUT
NCOL/WID MODE
SD NAME PLEX DISK DISKOFFS LENGTH [COL/]OFF
DEVICE MODE
SV NAME PLEX VOLNAME NVOLLAYR LENGTH [COL/]OFF
AM/NM MODE
SC NAME PLEX CACHE DISKOFFS LENGTH [COL/]OFF
DEVICE MODE
DC NAME PARENTVOL LOGVOL
SP NAME SNAPVOL DCO

dg rootdg default default 26000 1087675539.17.titan

dm rootdg01 c0t0d0s2 auto 7181 17674902 -

v rootvol - ENABLED ACTIVE 13484205 ROUND
- root
pl rootvol-01 rootvol ENABLED ACTIVE 13484205 CONCAT
- RW
sd rootdg01-02 rootvol-01 rootdg01 4190697 13484205 0
c0t0d0 ENA

v swapvol - ENABLED ACTIVE 4190697 ROUND
- swap
pl swapvol-01 swapvol ENABLED ACTIVE 4190697 CONCAT
- RW
sd rootdg01-01 swapvol-01 rootdg01 0 4190697 0
c0t0d0 ENA

Disk group: alcateldg

DG NAME NCONFIG NLOG MINORS GROUP-ID
ST NAME STATE DM_CNT SPARE_CNT APPVOL_CNT
DM NAME DEVICE TYPE PRIVLEN PUBLEN STATE
RV NAME RLINK_CNT KSTATE STATE PRIMARY DATAVOLS SRL
RL NAME RVG KSTATE STATE REM_HOST REM_DG REM_RLNK
CO NAME CACHEVOL KSTATE STATE
VT NAME NVOLUME KSTATE STATE
V NAME RVG/VSET/CO KSTATE STATE LENGTH READPOL
PREFPLEX UTYPE
PL NAME VOLUME KSTATE STATE LENGTH LAYOUT
NCOL/WID MODE
SD NAME PLEX DISK DISKOFFS LENGTH [COL/]OFF
DEVICE MODE
SV NAME PLEX VOLNAME NVOLLAYR LENGTH [COL/]OFF
AM/NM MODE
SC NAME PLEX CACHE DISKOFFS LENGTH [COL/]OFF
DEVICE MODE
DC NAME PARENTVOL LOGVOL
SP NAME SNAPVOL DCO

dg alcateldg default default 95000 1087658143.1113.uranus

dm alcatel01 c0t16d0s2 auto 2888 71124291 -
dm alcatel02 c0t19d0s2 auto 2888 71124291 -
dm alcatel03 c0t22d0s2 auto 2888 71124291 -
dm alcatel04 c0t3d0s2 auto 2888 71124291 -
dm alcatel05 c0t5d0s2 auto 2888 71124291 -
dm alcatel06 c0t6d0s2 auto 2888 71124291 -
dm alcatel07 c0t2d0s2 auto 3590 17678493 -
dm alcatel08 c0t4d0s2 auto 3590 17678493 -

v alcvol01 - ENABLED ACTIVE 4194304 RAID
- raid5
pl alcvol01-01 alcvol01 ENABLED ACTIVE 4194816 RAID
3/32 RW
sd alcatel06-01 alcvol01-01 alcatel06 0 2097414 0/0
c0t6d0 ENA
sd alcatel01-01 alcvol01-01 alcatel01 0 2097414 1/0
c0t16d0 ENA
sd alcatel02-01 alcvol01-01 alcatel02 0 2097414 2/0
c0t19d0 ENA
pl alcvol01-02 alcvol01 ENABLED LOG 2889 CONCAT
- RW
sd alcatel03-01 alcvol01-02 alcatel03 0 2889 0
c0t22d0 ENA

v alcvol02 - ENABLED ACTIVE 2097152 RAID
- raid5
pl alcvol02-01 alcvol02 ENABLED ACTIVE 2104320 RAID
3/32 RW
sd alcatel04-01 alcvol02-01 alcatel04 0 1048707 0/0
c0t3d0 ENA
sd alcatel08-01 alcvol02-01 alcatel08 0 1052163 1/0
c0t4d0 ENA
sd alcatel05-01 alcvol02-01 alcatel05 0 1048707 2/0
c0t5d0 ENA
pl alcvol02-02 alcvol02 ENABLED LOG 2889 CONCAT
- RW
sd alcatel03-02 alcvol02-02 alcatel03 2889 2889 0
c0t22d0 ENA

v alcvol03 - ENABLED ACTIVE 2097152 SELECT
alcvol03-04 fsgen
pl alcvol03-04 alcvol03 ENABLED ACTIVE 2097152 STRIPE
2/128 RW
sv alcvol03-S01 alcvol03-04 alcvol03-L01 1 1048576 0/0
3/3 ENA
sv alcvol03-S02 alcvol03-04 alcvol03-L02 1 1048576 1/0
3/3 ENA

v alcvol03-L01 - ENABLED ACTIVE 1048576 SELECT
- fsgen
pl alcvol03-P01 alcvol03-L01 ENABLED ACTIVE LOGONLY CONCAT
- RW
sd alcatel07-03 alcvol03-P01 alcatel07 0 33 LOG
c0t2d0 ENA
pl alcvol03-P02 alcvol03-L01 ENABLED ACTIVE 1048576 CONCAT
- RW
sd alcatel07-04 alcvol03-P02 alcatel07 3591 1048576 0
c0t2d0 ENA
pl alcvol03-P03 alcvol03-L01 ENABLED ACTIVE 1048576 CONCAT
- RW
sd alcatel04-03 alcvol03-P03 alcatel04 1048707 1048576 0
c0t3d0 ENA

v alcvol03-L02 - ENABLED ACTIVE 1048576 SELECT
- fsgen
pl alcvol03-P04 alcvol03-L02 ENABLED ACTIVE LOGONLY CONCAT
- RW
sd alcatel07-05 alcvol03-P04 alcatel07 33 33 LOG
c0t2d0 ENA
pl alcvol03-P05 alcvol03-L02 ENABLED ACTIVE 1048576 CONCAT
- RW
sd alcatel03-04 alcvol03-P05 alcatel03 5778 1048576 0
c0t22d0 ENA
pl alcvol03-P06 alcvol03-L02 ENABLED ACTIVE 1048576 CONCAT
- RW
sd alcatel05-03 alcvol03-P06 alcatel05 1048707 1048576 0
c0t5d0 ENA
#

After the importing the disk group, I have also upgredade the disk group
version with
the following command: vxdg upgrade alcateldg ...

Why are alcvol03-L01 and alcvol03-L02 there? Is there anything wrong?
What are the purpose of these volumes?

Best regards,

Asiye Yigit
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