From: Z H (ssefoen@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Apr 29 2005 - 13:18:03 EDT
Thanks to Darren Dunham for his expertise.
I used vxdg -C import disk_group to clear the old
block and I see all the disks under vxdisk list.
After the reboot, all is well and working beautifully.
Thanks also to Vicky Mangat for her response.
Have a great weekend!
ssefoen.
--------------
Original question:
> To All Helpers:
>
> Platform: solaris 2.8 and VM 3.5
>
> machine: Ultra2 (this is very old machine and not a
> production server)
>
> Problem: the box was running sun volume manager 2.4
> and solaris 2.6. The root disk was encapsulated.
>
> boot the system from underlying partition, remove
> the
> vm 2.4 without export the disk group (this may be
> the
> problem). upgrade the system to 2.8 without
> problem.
> Install 3.5 MP1 without problem. Run vxinstall
> after
> the installation of vm 3.5 and encapsulate the root
> disk again.
>
> Everything is fine. But the VM can not see any
> other
> old disk groups from vxdisk list, although it can
> see
> all the disks.
>
> I have used vxdg -f import option, but it failed.
> "import failed: No valid disk found containing disk
> group"
>
> I can used vxdisk -o alldgs list to see the old disk
> group but the disk has no name on it.
>
> rpt root [5] vxdisk -o alldgs list
> DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP
> STATUS
> c0t0d0s2 sliced rootdisk rootdg
> online
> c0t1d0s2 sliced - -
> error
> c2t0d0s2 sliced - (ssa_app)
> online
> c2t0d1s2 sliced - (ssa_app)
> online
> c2t0d2s2 sliced - (ssa)
> online
> c2t0d3s2 sliced - (ssa)
> online
>
> I also can use vxprinvutil dumpconfig to dump the
> config from each disk.
>
> My question is that is there anyway that I can force
> the vm 3.5 to see the disks created under vm 2.4?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> ssefoen.
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