AIX: rootvg/disk mirroring

bash-4.2# bootinfo -s hdisk0
140013
bash-4.2# bootinfo -s hdisk1
140013
bash-4.2# bootinfo -s hdisk2
140013

bash-4.2# lspv
hdisk0 002b012f397c20ce None
hdisk1 002afe4f2b4c3fdb rootvg active
hdisk2 002b016f09313544 ppmvg active
bash-4.2#

bash-4.2# lsvg -p rootvg
rootvg:
PV_NAME PV STATE TOTAL PPs FREE PPs FREE DISTRIBUTION
hdisk1 active 546 187 10..00..00..85..92

bash-4.2# extendvg rootvg hdisk0
0516-1398 extendvg: The physical volume hdisk0, appears to belong to
another volume group. Use the force option to add this physical volume
to a volume group.
0516-792 extendvg: Unable to extend volume group.

bash-4.2# extendvg -f rootvg hdisk0

bash-4.2# lsvg -p rootvg
rootvg:
PV_NAME PV STATE TOTAL PPs FREE PPs FREE DISTRIBUTION
hdisk1 active 546 187 10..00..00..85..92
hdisk0 active 546 546 110..109..109..109..109

bash-4.2# mirrorvg rootvg hdisk0
0516-1804 chvg: The quorum change takes effect immediately.
0516-1296 lresynclv: Unable to completely resynchronize volume.
The logical volume has bad-block relocation policy turned off.
This may have caused the command to fail.
0516-934 /usr/sbin/syncvg: Unable to synchronize logical volume hd5.
0516-934 /usr/sbin/syncvg: Unable to synchronize logical volume hd2.
0516-934 /usr/sbin/syncvg: Unable to synchronize logical volume dppmiaslv.
0516-934 /usr/sbin/syncvg: Unable to synchronize logical volume data01lv.
0516-932 /usr/sbin/syncvg: Unable to synchronize volume group rootvg.
0516-1126 mirrorvg: rootvg successfully mirrored, user should perform
bosboot of system to initialize boot records. Then, user must modify
bootlist to include: hdisk1 hdisk0.

bash-4.2# bosboot -ad /dev/hdisk0

bosboot: Boot image is 55324 512 byte blocks.

bash-4.2# bootlist -m normal -o
hdisk1 pathid=0

bash-4.2# bootlist -m normal hdisk1 hdisk0

bash-4.2# bootlist -m normal -o
hdisk1 blv=hd5 pathid=0
hdisk0 blv=hd5 pathid=0

bash-4.2# lspv
hdisk0 002b012f397c20ce rootvg active
hdisk1 002afe4f2b4c3fdb rootvg active
hdisk2 002b016f09313544 ppmvg active

To verify, rootvg is mirrored. We should have a 1:2 ratio between LP and PP except for the dumpdevices, like this.

bash-4.2# lsvg -l rootvg
rootvg:
LV NAME TYPE LPs PPs PVs LV STATE MOUNT POINT
hd5 boot 1 2 2 closed/stale N/A
hd6 paging 2 4 2 open/syncd N/A
hd8 jfs2log 1 2 2 open/syncd N/A
hd4 jfs2 2 4 2 open/syncd /
hd2 jfs2 10 20 2 open/stale /usr
hd9var jfs2 1 2 2 open/syncd /var
hd3 jfs2 13 26 2 open/syncd /tmp
hd1 jfs2 1 2 2 open/syncd /home
hd10opt jfs2 1 2 2 open/syncd /opt
hd11admin jfs2 1 2 2 open/syncd /admin
fwdump jfs2 2 4 2 open/syncd /var/adm/ras/platform
lg_dumplv sysdump 4 4 1 open/syncd N/A
dppmiaslv jfs2 120 240 2 open/stale /dppmias
data01lv jfs2 200 400 2 open/stale /data01

And we want to see exactly where a LV is mirrored:-

bash-4.2# lslv -m hd2
hd2:/usr
LP PP1 PV1 PP2 PV2 PP3 PV3
0001 0222 hdisk1 0223 hdisk0
0002 0228 hdisk1 0224 hdisk0
0003 0229 hdisk1 0225 hdisk0
0004 0230 hdisk1 0226 hdisk0
0005 0231 hdisk1 0227 hdisk0
0006 0232 hdisk1 0228 hdisk0
0007 0523 hdisk1 0229 hdisk0
0008 0524 hdisk1 0230 hdisk0
0009 0525 hdisk1 0231 hdisk0
0010 0527 hdisk1 0232 hdisk0

Now, check your bootlist. Does it have both physical disks in the bootlist or not.

bash-4.2# bootlist -m normal -o
hdisk1 blv=hd5 pathid=0
hdisk0 blv=hd5 pathid=0

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