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:
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
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 00c39b8d043427b6Note: there is no output for the above command when all proceeds accordingly.
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