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Operating Systems Solaris Migrate /export/home from storage path to local Post 302988103 by rbatte1 on Tuesday 20th of December 2016 11:38:35 AM
Old 12-20-2016
Do you have a volume manager in play here? If so, then you might be best to use local disk to extend the volume group and then ask the volume manager to migrate the logical volume across. This should be possible with the system active, although there will be an IO overhead.

What would concern me is the target hardware and why you would want to leave the protection that a SAN gives you. Are you looking to move the data to local and then off to a new SAN, or have you now got a local disk array that you are looking to exploit? The worry is that if it is truly local disk, then the OS is responsible for every disk write and will make the thread/process wait until it is completed to the real spinning media. It might sound counter intuitive, but local disk can therefore be significantly slower that properly configured RAID or SAN disk. SAN (or a good local RAID device) will have a serious chunk of cache so it can accept the write request and signal that it is complete much faster. The SAN will then complete the action to the spinning media in its own time, leaving the OS to continue with further processing.


Can you tell us the end goal here?


Robin
 

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vxdestroy_lvmroot(1M)													     vxdestroy_lvmroot(1M)

NAME

       vxdestroy_lvmroot - remove LVM root disk and associated LVM volume group

SYNOPSIS

       vxdestroy_lvmroot [-v] [-b] lvm_root_disk

DESCRIPTION

       The  vxdestroy_lvmroot  command	tears  down  and removes the LVM volume group associated with the specified physical disk. This is done by
       removing the volumes in the volume group and then removing the volume group.

OPTIONS

       -b	 Invokes the setboot command to change the primary boot disk to the VxVM root disk from which the system was booted (if  the  pri-
		 mary  boot  disk is not already set to this disk).  The alternate boot device remains unchanged.  If the -v option is also speci-
		 fied, the settings of the primary and alternate boot devices are displayed.

       -v	 Outputs verbose messages including a timestamp that indicates major operations being performed.

ARGUMENTS

       lvm_root_disk
	    Specifies the device name of the LVM root disk that is to be destroyed, along with its entire volume group.

EXAMPLES

       This example shows the vxdestroy_lvmroot command invoked in its simpliest form:

       /etc/vx/bin/vxdestroy_lvmroot c5t1d0

       # /etc/vx/bin/vxdestroy_lvmroot -v -b c3t0d0
       Are you sure about destroying c3t0d0 (imported on VG /dev/vg02) ? YES
       vxdestroy_lvmroot 06:02: Tearing down /dev/vg02 on device c3t0d0
       vxdestroy_lvmroot 06:02:
	 Unmounting and removing any volumes associated with /dev/vg02
       vxdestroy_lvmroot 06:02: removing logical volume /dev/vg02/lvol1
       vxdestroy_lvmroot 06:02: removing logical volume /dev/vg02/lvol2
       vxdestroy_lvmroot 06:02: removing logical volume /dev/vg02/lvol3
       vxdestroy_lvmroot 06:02: removing logical volume /dev/vg02/lvol4
       vxdestroy_lvmroot 06:02: removing logical volume /dev/vg02/lvol5
       vxdestroy_lvmroot 06:02: removing logical volume /dev/vg02/lvol6
       vxdestroy_lvmroot 06:02: removing logical volume /dev/vg02/lvol7
       vxdestroy_lvmroot 06:02: removing logical volume /dev/vg02/lvol8
       vxdestroy_lvmroot 06:02: Removing Volume Group /dev/vg02
       vxdestroy_lvmroot 06:02: Removing device files in /dev/vg02
       vxdestroy_lvmroot 06:02: Removing LVM Physical Volume c3t0d0
       vxdestroy_lvmroot 06:02: Removing LVM Physical Volume c1t1d3
       vxdestroy_lvmroot 06:02: Removing LVM Physical Volume c1t1d4
       vxdestroy_lvmroot 06:02: Removing LVM Physical Volume c1t1d5
       vxdestroy_lvmroot 06:03: Current setboot values:
       vxdestroy_lvmroot 06:03: Primary:       0/0/6/0/0.0.0
       vxdestroy_lvmroot 06:03: Alternate:     0/0/1/0/0.1.0
       vxdestroy_lvmroot 06:03:
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       vxdestroy_lvmroot 06:03:
	 Removal of device c3t0d0, volume group /dev/vg02 was successful

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