Thanks Bakunin, Thanks for your reply. I got the below command to check the details of the SAN disk. From the below output we can get the raid details too.
I created a RAID 5 array and when I list out the attributes of the "hdisk" it reports back raid_level = 5 but the RAID level of the array = false. What does this actually indicate about my array? I've never paid much attention to this until now since I have a disk reporting failure I want to make... (0 Replies)
Hi All,
I have mirrored SAN volume on my B80 rootvg. Can I just remove the mirror and "Remove a P V from a V G" and it will be a diskless AIX?
Is that going to boot on SAN rootvg volume?
Thanks in advance,
itik (3 Replies)
We are considering a DR strategy of booting AIX 5.3 and 5.3 logical partitions from EMC Symmetrix SAN disks, so that we can replicate via SRDF to a recovery site. Has anyone tried configuring AIX 5.x systems to boot from SAN disk? If so, can you provide any information on the pros and cons of... (6 Replies)
To summarize the problem: The "IBM FastT Storage Manager Client v8" shows that our Disk Farm is arranged into 6 logical drives each in a RAID 5 configuration. This software also shows that 5 of the 6 logical drives (from Disk Farm) are in a error state: "Failed Logical Drive - Drive Failure".... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a production solaris 10 SPARC system (portal). Yesterday legato/Networker gave an I/O Error on one of the files on its SAN mounted disk.
I went to that particular file on the system, did an ls and it showed the file. However, ls -l did not work and it said IO error.
... (6 Replies)
Hello,
I have a scsi pci x raid controller card on which I had created a disk array of 3 disks
when I type lspv ; I used to see 3 physical disks ( two local disks and one raid 5 disk )
suddenly the raid 5 disk array disappeared ; so the hardware engineer thought the problem was with SCSI... (0 Replies)
Hello Folks,
I have directly connected my IBM Pseries AIX machine to SAN Storage
I have a dual port Fibre Channel Adapter
Connected both fiber ports to SAN Box IBM DS4500 Controller A & Controller B
Using IBM DS storage manager client 10 -- created one logical disk and assigned to a... (18 Replies)
Hi guys, :)
I'm a studient in IT field (AIX)
I'm trying to map a LUN from a SAN (DS3400) to an AIX server (5300-04-00)
I know there is no MPIO on this version of AIX, and i see double my LUN from the SAN
root@localhost # lscfg | grep hdisk
+ hdisk7 ... (13 Replies)