Hi all,
I am not sure whether anyone of you using XIV to copy vg from one host to another. After I managed to copy all the respective vg over to destination vg, and map all vg to destination and when come to varyonvg, I got the following error
0516-510 varyonvg: Physical volume not found for physical volume
identifier 00f626989f51fcae.
Anyone encounter this before, hope you can share some idea why it happen and how to resolve this ?
Is this something I didn't perform before I varyonvg ?
before to try the varyonvg, could you check if lspv shows the same content in both nodes
I not have experience in XIV, but in another Storage Copies (EMC, HDS), probably you need clean the reservations that the original system put in the physical devices.
I think tyhat you need heck that the attributes on same nodes are the same, use lsattr -El hdiskX to review these, in special the reservation policy values.
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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:
Get a list of all the logical volumes on the missing disk
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.
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