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1. In some cases you may need to add additional disk space if there is no space available on the existing drives. Follow the steps outlined above to complete that task. 2. Once you have disk space prepared we can begin the resize. 3. NOTE: If your particular volume configuration is relies on columns you […]

1. To set a flag to specify a disk as a hot spare: # vxedit set spare=on 2. To set a flag to specify no hot spare # vxedit set nohotuse=on Original post blogged on b2evolution.

By default, a newly created volume will only have for the root user only, i.e below is a ‘test’ volume under disk group testdg: /dev/vx/dsk/testdg# ls -l total 0 brw——- 1 root root 79,76000 Jun 9 14:33 test The on the volume can be changed by using the chmod command: /dev/vx/dsk/testdg# chmod 777 test /dev/vx/dsk/testdg#

1. remove mirrors from original rootdisk # vxplex –o rm dis rootvol-02 swapvol-02 home-02 2. run vxunroot # /etc/vx/bin/vxunroot 3. This process will require a reboot. Original post blogged on b2evolution.

1. remove disk from veritas control if it belongs to a disk group; if it doesn’t belong to a disk group proceed to step 2 a. # vxdiskadm b. select option 4 to “remove a disk for replacement” c. enter the veritas disk name to remove d. choose the disk you want to use to

1. Boot from the network or from the CD-ROM. 2. Run fsck, then mount slice 0 from the primary boot disk onto /mnt 3. Restore the file(s) that need to be restored from your backup tape. 4. Use a vfstab that mounts underlying partitions directly rather than one that mounts volumes. You can use commands

Introduction This is a quick outline of a document describing how to set up IP multipathing in our environment. The goal is to implement a standard naming convention for the different addresses as well as for the network adapter group name. Pre-Requisites 1. Solaris 2.8 10/00 or later must be installed 2. Each interface must