1. Kick off the veritas initialization program vxinstall 2. Enter the license keys when you are prompted for them 3. Choose custom install from the menu 4. Choose to encapsulate your rootdisk 5. Choose to leave all other disks alone 6. Choose to reboot the server Original post blogged on b2evolution.
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1. Initialize all disks to be in the disk group a. For instructions see “initializing a new disk” below 2. create the disk group vxdg init disk-group-name solaris-disk-name=veritas-disk-name [solaris-disk-name=veritas-disk-name …] Original post blogged on b2evolution.
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Download inquiry utility from the following URL: ftp://ftp.emc.com/pub/symm3000/inquiry/ You will get all platforms executable..eg. Just upload and change attribute to executable (Unix make it 755). FTP directory /pub/symm3000/inquiry/v7.3.2.0/ at ftp.emc.com To view this FTP site in Windows Explorer, click Page, and then click Open FTP Site in Windows Explorer. Up to higher level directory 01/30/2012
Run the command with all attributes specificed vxassist –g disk-group-name make volume length layout=[…] ncol=[…] Original post blogged on b2evolution.
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1. Physically add the drive the system 2. Make the drive visible to the OS a. # format b. you will see a list of disks currently visible to the system, take note of these because you will need to identify the new disk c. quit out of the format utility, you may need to
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# vxdg –g disk-group-name adddisk veritas-disk-name=solaris-disk-name Original post blogged on b2evolution.
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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
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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.
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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#
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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.
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