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Old 08-30-2009
Hi Shockneck,

many many thanks for your reply. You have answered all my questions so far.
- DBAs don't have root access to the cluster
- only 2 SAs will have root access - me and my backup - and we will both build the cluster together
- we have a very strong change control in place and our documentation is pretty good
- we are aware this is no 24/7/365 solution - that is why we have an independant DR recovery site and a uat environment for testing
- the A1-A5 servers + 1 spare are running right now in a VCS cluster on AIX ... our engineering doesnt support it past 9/2010 - that is basically why we're going to move it to hacmp
- we will have almost a year for build and testing
- we have a weekend greenzone of 36 hrs for the environment and always patch all nodes in any cluster at the same time
- we will have hartbeat on disk on at least 2 different mini-devicegroups as you suggested

Once more thank you for all your suggestions - I will keep you in the loop if problems arise as I can see you don't have any major objection Smilie

Thank you in addition for the EMC bug tip - this explains why we have the problems on the 2 node clusters ... our SAN engineering is probably aware but has not yet certified the fix - I will ask them on monday for the fix.

Kind regards
zxmaus
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fdmns(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							  fdmns(4)

NAME
fdmns - contains file domain names and devices DESCRIPTION
The fdmns directory ensures access to file domains by providing symbolic links to every volume in the file domain. The mkfdmn, rmvol, and addvol utilities automatically manage the fdmns directory. Each file domain is described by its own subdirectory within the fdmns direc- tory. Back up the fdmns directory structure regularly using the vdump utility or any other backup utility (dump, tar, cpio). If the contents of the fdmns directory are deleted or corrupted, restore the directory from your most recent backup tape. You must also restore the fdmns directory after installing a new version of the operating system. Always keep a hardcopy record of each file domain and its associated volumes in case a backup copy of the fdmns directory is unavailable. If you have a record, you can reconstruct the fdmns directory structure. The following is a sample fdmns directory: total 2 drwxr-x--- 2 root system 512 Nov 24 18:35 scratch/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 512 Nov 24 18:35 usr/ ./scratch: total 0 lrwxr-x--- 1 root system 10 Oct 23 15:13 dsk10c@ -> /dev/disk/dsk10c lrwxr-x--- 1 root system 10 Oct 24 11:33 dsk11c@ -> /dev/disk/dsk11c lrwxr-x--- 1 root system 9 Oct 13 18:29 dsk8c@ -> /dev/disk/dsk8c ./usr: total 0 lrwxr-x--- 1 root system 9 Oct 24 10:52 dsk2g@ -> /dev/disk/dsk2c lrwxr-x--- 1 root system 9 Nov 24 10:35 dsk9c@ -> /dev/disk/dsk9c RESTRICTIONS
Do not remove or modify the contents of this directory. If the fdmns file becomes corrupted, you can no longer access (or mount) any file- set in the file domains. SEE ALSO
advfs(4), vdump(8), mkfdmn(8), vrestore(8), showfdmn(8) fdmns(4)