/usr/sbin/vxinfo – UnixArena’s Manual page /usr/sbin/vxinfo – Print accessibility and usability of volumes The vxinfo utility reports a usage-type-dependent condition on one or more volumes in a disk group.A report for each volume specified by the volume operand is written to the standard output. Volume conditions: Volume Condition Description Startable A volume can be started […]
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VxVM – vxlist – Command syntax with examples
/opt/VRTS/bin/vxlist – UnixArena’s Manual Page /opt/VRTS/bin/vxlist – displays records of the Storage Foundation configuration. Tasks Switches Setting up or initialize storage foundation records /opt/VRTSsfmh/adm/dclisetup.sh Display Consalidated storage foundation information vxlist [-g diskgroup] List the Veritas Volume Manager alerts vxlist [-g diskgroup] alert List the Volume Manager cache objects vxlist [-g diskgroup] cache List the disks […]
VXVM – vxtask command examples with syntax
/usr/sbin/vxtask – List and administer VERITAS Volume Manager Tasks The vxtask utility performs basic administrative operations on VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) tasks that are running on the system. Operations include listing tasks (subject to filtering), modifying the state of a task (aborting, pausing, resuming), and modifying the rate of progress of a task. VERITAS Volume Manager Tasks represent […]
How do you troubleshoot if VCS cluster is not starting ?
How do you start VCS cluster if its not started automatically after the server reboot? Have you ever faced such issues ? If not just see how we can fix these kind of issues on veritas cluster. I have been asking this questions on the Solaris interviews but most of them are fail to impress […]
How to Run Vertias Explorer for Specific Module ?
Veritas explorer is a utility provided by Symantec to collect the necessary system information along with their products veritas volume manager and veritas cluster information.If you just run the veritas explorer,it will collect all their product information,logs,cores and other information for investigation. You have to provide the veritas explorer if you need any assistance from […]
Veritas Volume Manager/Cluster License Keys
I Just got a time to write about my all time favourite product “veritas”. This post is all about veritas volume manager and Veritas cluster licensing. These products will be mostly used on Enterprise computing environment and it provides great on-line functionality for managing volumes & filesystems. This product is worth for the money but as a system administrator, we […]
How to configure I/O fencing on Veritas cluster ?
I/O fencing is required to protect the data corruption in Shared storage cluster environment. In Normal VCS operation,Veritas cluster nodes will be having heart beats and each system will send ICMP packets to ensure each machines are live and service group status is known.(Picture:1.0).I/O fencing behaves same way on system failure and cluster interconnect failure.It will not take any […]
How to assign VXFS FS to Solaris local zone from global ?
How to assign different type of filesystems from Solaris global zone to local zone ? The filesystem type could be type of vxfs , zfs or ufs. Oracle Solaris offers various way of assigning filesystem to Solaris zones.But we need to find out the best method for adding different type filesystems to local zones. The […]
SCRIPT:To calculate VXVM’s vxprint values & vxdisk size
We have seen how to calculate the vxprint and vxdisk values manually in the last post.But in very busy work schedule, its very difficult to spend time for calculating those values.I have developed the bash shell script(works for solaris) which will give you the volume size ,plex size,Disk size and sub-disk size (GB’s) of specific diskgroup in seconds.Adding to that this script […]
How to calculate vxvm volume size and objects size
I am very sure that many of the Unix beginners(i e. veritas volume manager) will be struggling to calculate the values from “vxprint” output and “vxdisk” output to determine the size of the objects like volume,plex,subdisks and disk. Off course there is no easy way to get the values in MB or GB using veritas command. You need […]