VXVM(veritas volume manager training) 2 of 10 In this post, we will see how to scan the physical disks and bringing the disks in to veritas volume manager control. In this short post, let’s see how to scan new disk in vxvm, disk naming convention and how to bring it in […]
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VXVM (Veritas Volume Manager) Training
VXVM(veritas volume manager training) Objective: Learn how to integrate, operate, VERITAS Storage Foundation in a Solaris environment. This training provides instruction on operational management procedures for VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) and you will learn how to install and configure VERITAS Volume Manager and how to manage disks, disk groups, and volumes by using from the command line.For your […]
VXVM interview questions
VXVM Questions:Part:2 we have seen vxvm disk and diskgroup related interview questions in the first part.Here we will see about vxvm volume related interview questions.you never know what the interviewer will ask you and in which topic you should be well prepared.But if want to give Solaris interview ,then you should be familiar with veritas volume manager.I have been […]
How to patch the Solaris global zone with vxfs root local zones
In UNIX system administration, we may need to perform OS patching often.But we can;t give any Guarantee that the server will come-up after the reboot.So prior to OS patching we need to make sure ,you have the valid back-out plan.If your global zone’s root filesystem is ZFS,then you have to choose live upgrade in order to perform OS patching. This post will help you […]
Installation of veritas cluster and volume manager-SFHA
In this post we will see how to install storage foundation high availability packages on two servers using the installer on vmware Solaris guest operating systems.This installation same on actual Solaris physical servers and Linux servers. The simple installer will help you what product you want to install on the servers. If you want to install veritas cluster server along with veritas volume […]
How to fix the corrupted VXFS Filesystem with Symantec help
Recently i have faced strange issue in HP-UX v11.31 with VXVM 5.0 . When we tried to extend one of the file system,vxresize command returns the following error messages. UX:vxfs fsadm: ERROR: V-3-20295: device record checksum is invalidUX:vxfs fsadm: ERROR: V-3-20291: could not initialize devicesVxVM vxresize ERROR V-5-1-7514 Problem running fsadm command for volume test5, in […]
How to use the mirror VXVM volume for backout reason
Normally Unix admin will come across the root volume back-out.Here we are going to see how to perform data volume back-out on veritas volume manager’s mirrored volume.For an example, database team wants to restore the DB but you want to preserve current copy of the volume before the restore starts.This can be done if you are using […]
How to cleanup veritas volume manager device tree ?
In Solaris , Sometimes veritas volume manger device tree will be messed up with newly assigned LUNS and you have to perform the device tree cleanup in a order to fix the device tree mess up. Below are two options for resolving device tree inconsistencies in VXVM. The first option does not require a reboot. […]
VXVM Failures
we may very often to fight with volume issues in day to day UNIX administration. When its come to veritas volume manager,it will be very less compare to other volume mangers. In rare cases you may need to face such a issues due environment(Like SAN issue),volume may go in to I/O error state or LUN paths will […]
DF command shows incorrect usage in VXFS
I have observed “df -h”command will show that veritas filesystems is used so and so space, but actually if you go to that mount point and calculate disk space using “du -sh” there will be nothing. In few cases, when df command will not show the correct usage of the filesystems. Also,if the filesystem created […]