Hi
Thanks again for the replies, here is my internal disk:
and if select it in format I get:
that means I can only use slice 2 for the database replicas...because acording to :
it looks like the only slice available...
No, you cannot use slice 2. Nothing ever uses slice 2 (unless it's for a raw copy or something like that). On Solaris, slice 2 always represents the WHOLE disk and is used by the system for disk discovery/geometry, etc.
NEVER try to use slice 2 for anything in normal operation!! You will likely corrupt one of the valid slices.
You can use ISCSI disk slice for metadb.
Or any disk device slice as far as metadb is concerned.
With metadb command (not metainit), you use defined small slices on disks, not the entire devices (cNtNd0 or cNtNd0s2).
After metadb creation, you may use SVM via meta commands for managing metadevices and metasets.
Just be sure that those luns will be present on machine as long as SVM is used.
Or, if old luns are removed, and new one added, add new and put extra database replica on it.
Remove replica from from old LUN, then remove the lun from system.
Having one metadb slice on one disk is a bad idea anyway.
You would want at least two, spanning on multiple disks (not same disk multiple slices).
Only place in which you can or must use entire devices (cNtNd0s2) is
Copying partition table from from same sized devices prtvtoc .. | fmthard ..
Using dd.
Creating zpools.
SCSI,multipath, zfs debug, information and manipulation using luxadm, mpathadm and zdb commands.
Others i cannot remember now.
Good thing to mention is that using the whole disk during zpool creation will enable you to import that zpool on x86 or SPARC architecture due to filesystem endian awareness.
This, of course, provides data moving from one platform to another, not binaries.
Also, in my tinkering around I was able to get SCO installed on a VM, using VM Workstation version 12.5 in a Windows 7 Pro-64 computer. I chose the VM Workstation 8.x compatibility model for my VM, an IDE hard drive at 0:0 and an IDE CD Rom at 1:0 using the physical drive of the computer. Using the... (3 Replies)
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Hi ,
We are facing an issue on one of our solaris x86 server,
After changing the hostname and a orderly reboot , all metadevices shows offline.
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Hi Guys,
We have an issue,
all metadb's on system was deleted and the system was rebooted.
the system is currented mounted in single-user mode . its a x86 server.
the volumes under SVM is as follows.
/
/var and
/usr
please suggest
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Hi all,
I recently started exploring Solaris 10.
I am testing metadevices now.
I have been reading about the state databases here: 6.State Database (Overview) (Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide) - Sun Microsystems
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I am having a problem creating my live upgrade environment.
Here is the error I get:
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I have the follow disk mappig....
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Can someone help me with creating a bash shell script.
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i have a doubt about ".so" files.
what is the need of ".so" files.
why we use ".so" files.
where we can use ".so" files.
how can i create ".so" files.
can u tell me a good example please
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