Solaris

Hello!

I have setup root mirror (d0) and swap mirror (d1) with 2 sub mirrors each

Right now when I run metastat | grep -i progress
it is resyncing

but when I do an echo | format, I don't get the md info

I also changed the information in /etc/vfstab




after the mirrors sync... how can I test if they are working?

and for echo | format

am I supposed to be still seeing c1t0d0, etc?

When I run metastat, I get both mirrors and their submirrors

Disk Suite/Sun Volume Manager allows software mirroring. Format will still show the same cxtxdx devices. Even when you encapsulate the root disk with Veritas Volume manager you would still reference the cxtxdx device.

Here's a helpful tip. The command 'metastat -c' will show you a short listing of 'metastat' along with any error status such as resyncing.

Sounds like you may be new to this software. I hope you ran the metaroot command for your root mirror before editing.

Good Luck!
Dirk

format will show you raw device only.

Thanks for the advice

and yes, I did run the metaroot on my root mirror

when I run metastat -c I get the following

# metastat -c
d1 m 1.0GB d11 d21
d11 s 1.0GB c1t0d0s1
d21 s 1.0GB c1t1d0s1
d0 m 13GB d10 d20 (resync-11%)
d10 s 13GB c1t0d0s0
d20 s 13GB c1t1d0s0
#

It seems like it's an issue using VMWare though..

after it gets to a certain % for resyncing

I get this error in VMWare

If the file resides on a remote file system, please make sure your network connection and the server where this disk resides are functioning properly. If the file resides on removable media, reattach the media.

Any ideas?

After I have the mirrors synced, I should be able to boot from the other disk right?


I'm really thinking of switching over to Sun Virtual Box as I've had so many problems with VMWare, any advice regarding Mirrors or VMWare would be greatly appreciated

Hello I dont understand what you meant by the above stmt?

It was an error message from VMWare

I'm starting to think I cannot do mirroring without purchasing VMWare ESX

Any VMWare users performing mirroring on Vmware Server 2.0?

Use VirtualBox!