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Operating Systems AIX RAID config Post 302224566 by bakunin on Wednesday 13th of August 2008 12:14:51 PM
Old 08-13-2008
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Last question, is there any issue if I keep the 36GB drives disk0 and disk1 for mirroring the OS, and replace the other four 36GB drives with 73GB drives?
No, not at all. First identify carefully which physical disks are "hdisk0" and "hdisk1" (have a look at the location codes). Then install AIX on one of these disks, add the second one to the rootvg and run "mirrorvg", which will mirror every FS in the volume group. Replace now (or before, it doesn't matter) the other four disks, create a RAID array from the new ones and create a volume group from the disk device the RAID controller has created. Check with "lspv", hdisk0 and hdisk1 should belong to "rootvg", all the other disks to "datavg" (or whatever you name it).

Now create LVs/FSs from the datavg and fill with data, etc. (probably you will simply have to restore it from somewhere).

If you want to replace the disks of this datavg you can do so by "varyoffvg" the datavg. You could work on these disks without even shutting down the machine (another advantage of having the OS software separated from the data).

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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IIR(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    IIR(4)

NAME
iir -- Intel Integrated RAID controller and ICP Vortex driver SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: device pci device scbus device iir Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5): iir_load="YES" DESCRIPTION
The iir driver claims to interface with the Intel integrated RAID controller cards, and all versions of the ICP Vortex controllers (including FC). HARDWARE
Controllers supported by the iir driver include: o Intel RAID Controller SRCMR o Intel Server RAID Controller U3-l (SRCU31a) o Intel Server RAID Controller U3-1L (SRCU31La) o Intel Server RAID Controller U3-2 (SRCU32) o All past and future releases of Intel and ICP RAID Controllers. o Intel RAID Controller SRCU21 (discontinued) o Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 (older revision, not compatible) o Intel RAID Controller SRCU31L (older revision, not compatible) The SRCU31 and SRCU31L can be updated via a firmware update available from Intel. SEE ALSO
cam(4), pass(4), xpt(4), camcontrol(8) AUTHORS
The iir driver is supported and maintained by Achim Leubner <Achim_Leubner@adaptec.com>. This manual page was written by Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> and is based on information supplied by the driver authors and the website of Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>. BSD
August 8, 2004 BSD
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