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Operating Systems AIX Stale PPs in AIX, failed disks.. how to replace? Post 302922798 by c3rb3rus on Tuesday 28th of October 2014 10:45:04 AM
Old 10-28-2014
Tried to extend the volume..

Code:
# extendvg vg_usr1 hdisk42
0516-1398 extendvg: The physical volume hdisk42, appears to belong to another volume group. Use the force option to add this physical volume to a volume group.
0516-792 extendvg: Unable to extend volume group.

Interesting error, since hdisk42 shows it is not assigned when I ssue "lspv hdisk42", I get..

Code:
Physical volume hdisk42 is not assigned to a volume group.

So next, i tried to force it and it worked.. "extendvg -f vg_usr1 hdisk42"

Then I tried mirrorvg vg_usr1, and I get..

Code:
# mirrorvg vg_usr1
0516-1119 mirrorvg: Not enough free physical partitions to satisfy request.
0516-1200 mirrorvg: Failed to mirror the volume group.

This coresponds to what you said, since I had 2 disks fail I don't have enough for this command, so next I try.

Looking at lslv lv_usr1 I have it set for Copies = 2, so I will add 2 for the mklvcopy cmdlet.

However, next I get this error.

Code:
# mklvcopy lv_usr1 2 hdisk42
0516-1509 mklvcopy: VGDA corruption: physical partition info for this LV is invalid.
0516-842 mklvcopy: Unable to make logical partition copies for
        logical volume.

The output of lslv_lv_usr1 is:

Code:
# lslv lv_usr1
LOGICAL VOLUME:     lv_usr1                VOLUME GROUP:   vg_usr1
LV IDENTIFIER:      000015010000d60000000141138f2577.1 PERMISSION:     read/write
VG STATE:           active/complete        LV STATE:       closed/syncd
TYPE:               jfs2                   WRITE VERIFY:   off
MAX LPs:            32512                  PP SIZE:        128 megabyte(s)
COPIES:             2                      SCHED POLICY:   parallel
LPs:                6005                   PPs:            12010
STALE PPs:          0                      BB POLICY:      relocatable
INTER-POLICY:       maximum                RELOCATABLE:    yes
INTRA-POLICY:       middle                 UPPER BOUND:    32
MOUNT POINT:        /usr1                  LABEL:          /usr1
MIRROR WRITE CONSISTENCY: on/ACTIVE
EACH LP COPY ON A SEPARATE PV ?: yes
Serialize IO ?:     NO
INFINITE RETRY:     no

Code:
# lslv -l lv_usr1
0516-1939 : PV identifier not found in VGDA.

Code:
# lsvg vg_usr1
VOLUME GROUP:       vg_usr1                  VG IDENTIFIER:  000015010000d60000000141138f2577
VG STATE:           active                   PP SIZE:        128 megabyte(s)
VG PERMISSION:      read/write               TOTAL PPs:      11466 (1467648 megabytes)
MAX LVs:            256                      FREE PPs:       547 (70016 megabytes)
LVs:                2                        USED PPs:       10919 (1397632 megabytes)
OPEN LVs:           0                        QUORUM:         11 (Enabled)
TOTAL PVs:          21                       VG DESCRIPTORS: 21
STALE PVs:          0                        STALE PPs:      0
ACTIVE PVs:         21                       AUTO ON:        yes
MAX PPs per VG:     32512
MAX PPs per PV:     1016                     MAX PVs:        32
LTG size (Dynamic): 256 kilobyte(s)          AUTO SYNC:      no
HOT SPARE:          no                       BB POLICY:      relocatable
PV RESTRICTION:     none                     INFINITE RETRY: no
DISK BLOCK SIZE:    512

 

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