We had a Sun Netra T1 go down the other day, the root disk was mirrored using vxvm. Upon boot from either disk, we had the following error appear:
no problems i thought. I'm well aware of this issue with VX. However I discovered I couldn't boot from vx root or mirror (same errors), we tried the cd, and the that failed too (suspected broken cdrom).
having given up all hope, I randomly tried a 'boot -a' (accepting all defaults) which somehow got me into multiuser, but with no vxvm partitions installed, or vx processes running. From there we were able to recover the system.
Can anyone shed any light as to how or why 'boot -a' worked? Not being a VX guy, I'm really scratching my head, and can't recreate this problem.
TIA.
are you sure it wasnt boot -as? as in single user... that would allow you to fsck the root disk...
Hi,
I have an openserver 5.0.0 machine in the office. The sysad of that machine left years ago without leaving the password to anyone.
I was wondering if someone has a copy of the boot / root diskettes (rescue) for this version? Or perhaps if anyone knows a download link / location in the... (0 Replies)
Hi, Im getting a downtime of 4 hrs to do porting of bootdisks.
Currently, the system is running on Sf4800. 2 internal disk 36G connected to a SE3510 storage.
We're getting 72G disks and we want to restore the OS from the current 36G to the 72G disk. System is under veritas volume manager ctrl.... (4 Replies)
Previously , i remove the disk by
#vxdg -g testdg -k rmdisk testdg02
But i got error when i -k adddisk
bash-2.03# vxdisk list
DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS
c0t0d0s2 auto:none - - online invalid
c0t1d0s2 auto:none ... (1 Reply)
Hello guys!
I use the Solaris 10 x86 machine.
I need to clone the boot disk.
Why, when I copy slice 1 - there is a following:
# ufsdump 0f - /dev/rdsk/c0d0s1 | (cd /mnt && ufsrestore rf - )
DUMP: Warning - super-block on device `/dev/rdsk/c0d01` is corrupt - run fsck
Dump: The Entire... (6 Replies)
Hi All
Hope it's okay to post on this sub-forum, couldn't find a better place
I've got a 480R running solaris 8 with veritas volume manager managing all filesystems, including an encapsulated root disk (I believe the root disk is encapsulated as one of the root mirror disks has an entry under... (1 Reply)
Hi,
Can you help me on booting x86 server configured under VxVM. Server boots fine normally from both the disks but if I try to boot server from mirror disk without starting veritas, then it does not boot.
vxplex -g rootdg dis var-02
vxplex -g rootdg dis swapvol-02
vxplex -g rootdg dis... (2 Replies)
Update:
The / file system (/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0) is being checked
fsck unable to stat
WARNING - unable to repair the / filesystem. Run fsck manually (fsck -F ufs /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0).
Root password for system maintenance (control-d to bypass):
I am unable to hit control-d to by pass.
I... (50 Replies)
Hi guys,
thanks for helping out.
If you have two boot disk mirrored and your primary boot disk fails, how will you boot the system from the second disk?
Thank you very much for your assistance on this matter.
Arrey (5 Replies)
Came home the other day to a Napp-it Gui that would not load.
Login would appear but when i attempted I would get the following
Set default permissions and reading disk and pool parameter, please wait..
in case of problems, try a reboot after Power-Off or check disk and pool status at CLI.... (1 Reply)
Hello all,
So I made a rookie mistake today. I forgot to remove my disk from my disk group, before running the following command:for i in `ioscan -fnN | awk /NO/'{print $3}'`
do
rmsf -H $i
done
I am trying to run the following command, but not having any luck obviously:vxdg -g dgvol1 rmdisk... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: mrkejames2
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LEARN ABOUT HPUX
vxse
vxse(1M)vxse(1M)NAME
vxse - Storage Expert rules
SYNOPSIS
/opt/VRTS/vxse/vxvm/vxse_rule [-g diskgroup] [-d defaults_file] [-v] check
/opt/VRTS/vxse/vxvm/vxse_rule [-g diskgroup] [-d defaults_file] [-v] info
/opt/VRTS/vxse/vxvm/vxse_rule [-g diskgroup] [-d defaults_file] [-v] list
/opt/VRTS/vxse/vxvm/vxse_rule [-g diskgroup] [-d defaults_file] [-v] run [attribute=value...]
DESCRIPTION
Storage Expert consists of a set of simple commands that collects VxVM configuration data and compares it with "best practice." Storage
Expert then produces a summary report that shows which objects do not meet these criteria and makes recommendations for VxVM configuration
improvements.
These user-configurable tools help you as an administrator to verify and validate systems and non-optimal configurations in both small and
large VxVM installations.
Storage Expert components include a set of rule scripts and a rules engine. The rules engine runs the scripts and produces ASCII output,
which is organized and archived by Storage Expert's report generator. This output contains information about areas of VxVM configuration
that do not meet the set criteria. By default, output is sent to the screen, but you can redirect it to a file using standard UNIX redi-
rection.
KEYWORDS
check Lists the default values used by a rule's attributes.
info Describes what a rule does.
list Lists the attributes of a rule that can be set.
run Runs a rule. If one or more attribute-value pairs are specified, these override the values set in the defaults file.
OPTIONS -d defaults_file
Specifies an alternate default attribute-values file to the standard file, /etc/default/vxse.
-g diskgroup
Specifies the disk group to be examined instead of the default disk group (see vxdg(1M)).
-v Specifies verbose output format.
EXAMPLES
Note: The executable rule files are located in the directory, /opt/VRTS/vxse/vxvm. These examples assume that this directory has been
added to the PATH variable.
Discover what the vxse_stripes2 rule does:
vxse_stripes2 info
Display the attributes that are available for the vxse_drl1 rule:
vxse_drl1 list
Display the default values of the attributes for the vxse_stripes2 rule:
vxse_stripes2 check
Run the vxse_volplex rule on the mydg disk group:
vxse_volplex -g mydg run
Run the vxse_drl2 rule on the mydg disk group with the value of the large_mirror_size attribute set to 30MB:
vxse_drl2 -g mydg run large_mirror_size=30m
Run the vxse_srl2 rule using the default attribute values that are set in the file mydefaultsfile:
vxse_drl2 -d mydefaultsfile -g mydg run
FILES
/etc/default/vxse Standard attribute values file for vxse rules.
/opt/VRTS/vxse/vxvm Directory containing executable rules.
NOTES
See the "Using Veritas Storage Expert" chapter in the Veritas Volume Manager Administrator's Guide for a description of the rules and their
attributes.
SEE ALSO vxdg(1M), vxintro(1M)
Veritas Volume Manager Administrator's Guide
VxVM 5.0.31.1 24 Mar 2008 vxse(1M)