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Operating Systems AIX Unable to varyonvg after copy vg from XIV Post 302790339 by MichaelFelt on Friday 5th of April 2013 07:31:09 AM
Old 04-05-2013
This does not have anything to do with the storage system used.

By copy, did you use a command like dd to make the copy? Or did you have LUNS active from both systems and use something like migratepv commands? If so, I am guessing that you removed the old LUN before doing a reducevg command.

Does lspv show a disk as PVMISSING?
If you are facing a PVMISSING disk you could look at my post from 2007 on HOWTO: Cleanup a PVMISSING disk

In any case, (i.e., even if you are not seeing a PVMISSING message) your message reads as if there is a PVID in the VGDA that needs to be removed before you can varyonvg the volume group. More details in the article above - however, here are the basics:

Code:
root@aix53:[/]lsvg -p vgExport  
0516-010 : Volume group must be varied on; use varyonvg command.
root@aix53:[/]varyonvg vgExport
PV Status:      hdisk1  00c39b8d69c45344        PVACTIVE
                hdisk2  00c39b8d043427b6        PVMISSING

Code:
root@aix53:[/]lqueryvg -p hdisk1 -vPt 
Physical:       00c39b8d69c45344                2   0  
                00c39b8d043427b6                1   0  
VGid:           00c39b8d00004c000000011169c45a4b

Get a list of all the logical volumes on the missing disk
Code:
root@aix53:[/]lspv -l -v 00c39b8d00004c000000011169c45a4b hdisk2
hdisk2:
LV NAME               LPs   PPs   DISTRIBUTION          MOUNT POINT
lvTest                512   512   109..108..108..108..79 /scratch
loglv00               1     1     00..00..00..00..01    N/A

If the last command does not list any logical volumes you can proceed to removing the disk from the volume group (i.e., remove from the VGDA) - otherwise you will need to remove the logical volumes from the volume group before removing the disk.

Code:
root@aix53:[/]ldeletepv -g 00c39b8d00004c000000011169c45a4b -p 00c39b8d043427b6
 
Note: there is no output for the above command when all proceeds accordingly.

 

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