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Operating Systems AIX replacing mirror disk Post 302555787 by newaix on Thursday 15th of September 2011 02:48:11 PM
Old 09-15-2011
replacing mirror disk

Hi Admins,

I am new into aix.I was surfing aix pages and reading how to replace failed mirror disks.I read in one of the posts that we have to reboot the server to replace the disk. actually i was a HPUX admin and many times replaced root mirror disk online.Ofcourse it was hot swappable.

Now i have not checkd my aix disks are hot swappable or not.and OS version is 5.3. Need i reboot server to replace disk in aix 5.3.. please explain in detail.


Regards
newaix
 

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vxunreloc(1M)															     vxunreloc(1M)

NAME
vxunreloc - move a hot-relocated subdisk back to its original disk SYNOPSIS
/etc/vx/bin/vxunreloc [-f] [-g diskgroup] [-n dm_name] [-t tasktag] dm_name DESCRIPTION
The Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) hot-relocation feature can detect an I/O failure in a subdisk, relocate the subdisk, and recover the plex associated with the subdisk. vxunreloc lets you reverse the process and move the hot-relocated subdisks back onto a disk that was replaced after a disk failure. dm_name specifies the disk where the hot-relocated subdisks originally resided. The -n option moves the subdisks to a different disk from where VxVM originally relocated them. For example, when disk03 fails, all the subdisks residing on it are hot-relocated to other disks. After the disk is repaired, it is added back to the disk group using a different name, for example, disk05. If you wanted to move all the hot-relocated subdisks back to the repaired disk, you would enter: /etc/vx/bin/vxunreloc -n disk05 disk03 When vxunreloc moves the hot-relocated subdisks, it moves them to their original offsets. However, if there was a subdisk that occupied part or all of the area on the destination disk, vxunreloc prints an error message and exits. In this situation, you can use the -f option to unrelocate the subdisks to a specified disk, but not to their original offsets. OPTIONS
-f Unrelocates a subdisk to a different offset if unrelocating to the original offset is not possible. -g diskgroup Unrelocates a subdisk from the specified disk group. If this option is not specified, the default disk group is determined using the rules given in the vxdg(1M) manual page. -n dm_name Specifies a new disk name to relocate to a disk with a different name. -t tasktag Specifies a tag to pass to the underlying utility. SUBDISK RECORD FIELDS
orig_dmname When a subdisk is hot-relocated, its original disk media name is stored in the orig_dmname field. When you run the vxunreloc command to move the subdisk back to the original disk (or to a new disk), this field is cleared. Before you run the vxunreloc command, you can do a search on this field to determine the subdisks that originated from a failed disk. For example, the fol- lowing command lists all the subdisks that were hot-relocated from mydg01 in the disk group mydg. Note that you must prefix the field name with "sd_" for the command to work. vxprint -g mydg -se 'sd_orig_dmname="mydg01"' orig_dmoffset When a subdisk is hot-relocated, its offset into the original disk is stored in the orig_dmoffset field. When you run vxunreloc to move the subdisk to the original disk, or to a new disk, this field is zeroed. The following command lists a hot-relocated subdisk which originally resided at disk10 at offset 1000. Again note that you must prefix the field names with "sd_" for the command to work. vxprint -g dg01 -se 'sd_orig_dmname="disk10" && sd_orig_dmoffset=1000' EXIT CODES
If the operation fails, vxunreloc exits with a non-zero status. A non-zero exit code is not a complete indicator of the problems encoun- tered, but rather denotes the first condition that prevented further execution of the utility. See vxintro(1M) for a list of standard exit codes. SEE ALSO
vxassist(1M), vxintro(1M), vxmake(1M), vxprint(1M), vxrelocd(1M), vxsd(1M), vxsparecheck(1M) VxVM 5.0.31.1 24 Mar 2008 vxunreloc(1M)
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