How to remove a solaris patch while booted from a network or. Veritas volume manager is a storage management application by symantec, which allows you to manage physical disks as logical devices called volumes. It is a strong replacement for suns previous products sun volume manager and ufs, but its design and immaturity still make it a less than ideal fit for enterprise deployment. Learn how to integrate, operate, veritas storage foundation in a solaris environment. You then need to mirror the encapsulated root disk using further vxvm commands. So i would like to know if i upgrade to solaris 10 0606. Solaris, vxvm, cluster l1l2 and l3 also interview questions. The steps are basically identical for the other releases. Hello friends, i need to test some of the solaris 10 concepts and veritas volume manager.
To perform this snapshot,we need free space equal to volume. Since veritas has been bought by symantec, i have been trying to figure out their naming convention for the veritas products. Beginners lesson veritas volume manager for solaris. Volume manager on solaris, patch detail sort veritas. How to resize mirror volume in veritas volume manager 3. After os upgrade from solaris 10 update 8 or 9 to solaris 10 update 10 or 11, samba server, sambashare and netbios agents fail to come online 3321120. Manage your logical volumes with veritas volume manager vxvm. Solaris 11 x64 vxvm commands doesnt give output within the timeout value specified in the vcs script after disk attach or detach operations 3846006 after configuring a service group with the vmwaredisks resources, when you attach or detach disks from the first node, the vmwaredisk resource on the first node goes into the monitor timeout state. It is also strongly advised to use solaris volume manager for mirroring root file systems, as opposed to using veritas volume manager vxvm mirroring of root file systems. It offers volume management and multipath io functionalities when. Forcibly restarting a disabled volume clearing the failing flag on a disk reattaching failed disks failures on raid5 volumes recovering from an incomplete disk group move recovery from failure of a dco volume about recovery from hardware failure symantecs veritas volume manager vxvm protects systems from disk and. Veritas volume manager vxvm might report false serial split brain under certain scenarios 18345. The vxvm commands on a vvr diskgroup doesnt complete until all. Since it is in hang state, no vxvm veritas volume manager commands are able to respond.
Jun 24, 2008 learn to install, configure, and troubleshoot veritas symantec 5. This document is based upon sparc solaris 10 all the following commands are to be run from the obp and not the os. Mar 12, 20 the os commands may vary for solaris versions. To start with prepare a solaris 10 virtual machine with sufficient number of disks atleast 4 to 6, 1 gb disks and two 16 gb disks for root mirroring. Insert the veritas volume manager software cdrom into the cdrom drive. Downgrade to a lower revision of patch, for example solaris patch 14744019. Hi all, i have created a vmware appliance with solaris 10 and veritas voulme manager 5. The compilation is most accurate and have been compiled from live server use. Vxvm veritas volume manager command vxdisksetup will fail for environments with solaris patch 14744020 and later. The solaris volume manager svm is a free component of solaris 9 and solaris 10. The article includes a brief explanation of vxvm basic concepts, troubleshooting, and easy fixes for a few sundry problems. Jul 07, 2009 solaris 9 svm name changes now solaris volume manager, soft partitions introduced, backported to 4. Listed here are all the commands that you use to administer. Please contact veritas support to ensure you are running the required veritas volume manager vxvm patch level.
May 24, 2011 sometimes, when failed fibre channel disks are replaced in arrays or servers under veritas volume manager control, duplicate entries appear in the vxdisk list output. May 25, 2011 advantages of veritas volume manager after created the volume booting process booting process in solaris booting process solaris cluster l1l2 and l3 also interview questions creating volume manager in solaris how to creat state data base interview questions for solars introduction to veritas volume manager introduction to volume manager olaris. Vxvmveritas volume manager training 10 of 12in this post, we are going to see traditional mirror breakoff snapshot. How to run savecore manually while booted in single user from cdrom. I wnat to see the license number the unix and linux forums. What is the command to see the veritas volume manager 3.
May 29, 2009 if a problem occured, it should be possible to boot from the other half of the mirror the unpatched half. However on the symantec site i see veritas foundation basic, server, etc but did not see veritas volume manager. You should check the supported operating system matrix for storage foundation to see what they support. Veritas volume manager administrators guide solaris. How to replace failed root disk under solaris volume manager svm the ultimate solaris volume manager svm interview questions. Veritas volume manager commands are delayed 2757198. Solaris 10 commad line guide adding new disk azizs blog. Please read the bigadmin article how to split a root mirrored with solaris volume manager prior to updating software for information on how to properly break a solaris volume manager mirror and later reattach the mirror. It is available for windows, aix, solaris, linux, and hpux. Veritas volume manager command the unix and linux forums hq.
Veritas volume manager quick reference disk commands. I have solaris 10 installed on a sparc wanted to test veritas volume manager to manage the disks. Solaris zfs is a new file system with an integrated volume manager that was released with update 2 of solaris 10 in mid2006. While veritas indicates in technote 236062 that the ultimate solution is a reconfiguration reboot or two, and while standard reboots have. On the solaris platform, commands like zpool create, zpool import, or other commands that change the smiefi label, result in extremely poor performance of vxvm veritas volume manager commands.
Vxvm invokes powerpath command powermt display unmanaged to. The solaris volume manager administration guide provides instructions on using solaris volume manager to manage disk storage, including creating, modifying, and using raid0 concatenation and stripe volumes, raid1 mirror volumes, raid5 volumes, and soft partitions. The veritas volume manager vvm or vxvm is a proprietary logical volume manager from veritas which was part of symantec until january 2016. Add the disks to veritas disk group using vxdg commands 5. Dec 18, 2008 disk mirroring using solaris volume manager. Create volumes under disk group using vxmake or vxassist commands 6. Solaris volume manager svm command line reference cheat sheet. At the time of this writing, solaris 8 is the most commonly deployed version of solaris, so well use that as the basis for this example. A modified version is bundled with hpux as its builtin volume manager.
For this and all the future tutorials i will be using a test box created in vmware workstation. The eeprom command can be used from the os to view or set openboot rmware variables. After the solaris 8 10 01 oe is booted, upgrade to vxvm 3. Veritas storage foundation and sun solaris zfs vox. Let us see how you can install vxvm in a solaris 10 virtual machine. Volume manager on solaris, patch detail sort home veritas. Unix my first love check veritas volume manager version. What are the design considerations for the size of private region in vxvm disk group. What is the difference between private and public regions in veritas volume manager.
Veritas volume manager vxvm might report false serial split brain under certain scenarios 18345 suppressing the primary path of an encapsulated san boot disk from veritas volume manager causes the system reboot to fail 1933631. Solaris 10 veritas volume manager solutions experts exchange. A series of veritas volume manager vxvm patches were released to ensure dmp imports zfs devices using dmp. Svm software provides mechanisms to configure physical slices of harddrive into logical volumes. Create filesystem on top of volumes using mkfs or newfs, and you can create either vxfs filesystem or ufs filesystem. Using vxassist with its v flag will display the actual vxvm commands used during volume construction. Change to the directory containing the veritas volume manager. Veritas volume manager on solaris 10x86 oracle community. An example of this is using a single vxassist command to set up a volume. They are only valid on sparc hardware that uses the openboot rmware.
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