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Old 09-26-2013
Question on Veritas file system..

Hi,

I am on Solaris 10 server which is running Veritas. It's E420 server with two drives. I don't know much about Veritas. The other guy who works on this, on vacation this week. :-) Any way, looks like I have hard drive issue on the server.

Code:
 
When I do iostat -E. I see this. 
 
sd0       Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: FUJITSU  Product: MAP3367N SUN36G  Revision: 0301 Serial No: 0308N005ER
Size: 36.42GB <36418595328 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
sd2       Soft Errors: 1494 Hard Errors: 1 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: FUJITSU  Product: MAP3367N SUN36G  Revision: 0301 Serial No: 0308N005D8
Size: 36.42GB <36418595328 bytes>
Media Error: 1 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 1494
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
sd8       Soft Errors: 3 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: TOSHIBA  Product: XM6201TASUN32XCD Revision: 1103 Serial No:
Size: 0.00GB <0 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 3 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0


Code:
root} df -h
Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/vx/dsk/bootdg/rootvol
                       992M   210M   723M    23%    /
/devices                 0K     0K     0K     0%    /devices
ctfs                     0K     0K     0K     0%    /system/contract
proc                     0K     0K     0K     0%    /proc
mnttab                   0K     0K     0K     0%    /etc/mnttab
swap                   4.2G   1.2M   4.2G     1%    /etc/svc/volatile
objfs                    0K     0K     0K     0%    /system/object
/dev/vx/dsk/bootdg/usr
                       5.8G   3.9G   1.8G    69%    /usr
fd                       0K     0K     0K     0%    /dev/fd
/dev/vx/dsk/bootdg/var
                       3.9G   3.4G   478M    89%    /var
swap                   4.2G   2.5M   4.2G     1%    /tmp
swap                   4.2G    80K   4.2G     1%    /var/run
swap                   4.2G     0K   4.2G     0%    /dev/vx/dmp
swap                   4.2G     0K   4.2G     0%    /dev/vx/rdmp
/dev/vx/dsk/bootdg/opt
                       4.9G   583M   4.3G    12%    /opt
/dev/vx/dsk/rootdg/ilxD
                        12G  1001M    10G     9%    /ilxD



How do I know if the drives are mirrored or not?

If I need to change the drive, is it simple as pull the bad drive and replace with the new drive or is there more to this? Please help.
# 2  
Old 09-26-2013
The iostat command output you show lists 3 drives

What does vxdisk list show?

http://gurkulindia.com/main/2011/06/...-for-solaris/#
# 3  
Old 09-26-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by blackrageous
The iostat command output you show lists 3 drives

What does vxdisk list show?

unixadminschool.com Beginner’s Lesson – VERITAS Volume Manager for Solaris

The reason you see three drives, one of them is a CDROM. Thank you for the veritas link. I am checking on that.
# 4  
Old 09-29-2013
Hi samnyc,

Veritas mirrors volumes residing on encapsulated disks, that are grouped in disk groups.

If those disks are part of a volume manager disk group, and have dynamic volume(s) on them, you could verify if the volume(s) are mirrored.
The following outputs indicate that my "ufs" volume, that is part of "testdg" disk gropup is mirrored across disks "hds9500-alua0_75" and "hds9500-alua0_77"

Disk "hds9500-alua0_83" holds the DRL log for fast mirror resync.
Code:
**:/user #vxdisk -o alldgs list | grep testdg
hds9500-alua0_75 auto:sliced     tst          testdg       online
hds9500-alua0_77 auto:cdsdisk    cache1       testdg       online
hds9500-alua0_82 auto:sliced     data2        testdg       online
hds9500-alua0_83 auto:cdsdisk    data3        testdg       online

You could use vxdisk list for the complete list of disk groups.

Code:
**:/user #vxprint -th -g testdg ufs
V  NAME         RVG/VSET/CO  KSTATE   STATE    LENGTH   READPOL   PREFPLEX UTYPE
PL NAME         VOLUME       KSTATE   STATE    LENGTH   LAYOUT    NCOL/WID MODE
SD NAME         PLEX         DISK     DISKOFFS LENGTH   [COL/]OFF DEVICE   MODE
SV NAME         PLEX         VOLNAME  NVOLLAYR LENGTH   [COL/]OFF AM/NM    MODE
SC NAME         PLEX         CACHE    DISKOFFS LENGTH   [COL/]OFF DEVICE   MODE
DC NAME         PARENTVOL    LOGVOL
SP NAME         SNAPVOL      DCO
EX NAME         ASSOC        VC                       PERMS    MODE     STATE
SR NAME         KSTATE

v  ufs          -            ENABLED  ACTIVE   204800   SELECT    -        fsgen        
pl ufs-01       ufs          ENABLED  ACTIVE   204800   CONCAT    -        RW           
sd tst-02       ufs-01       tst      122880   204800   0         hds9500-alua0_75 ENA  
pl ufs-02       ufs          ENABLED  ACTIVE   204800   CONCAT    -        RW           
sd cache1-02    ufs-02       cache1   2528864  204800   0         hds9500-alua0_77 ENA  
pl ufs-03       ufs          ENABLED  ACTIVE   LOGONLY  CONCAT    -        RW           
sd data3-03     ufs-03       data3    699136   528      LOG       hds9500-alua0_83 ENA

# 5  
Old 10-08-2013
Question: When using Oracle Disk Manager with Veritas vxfs, what should be the proper setting for filesystem mount options (and file system io options), disk_async_io, convosync and DBWR processes?

Answer: Every system has different optimizations, but here are some guidelines for optimizing Veritas vxfs on Oracle. The Veritas Cluster Server, supporting Oracle RAC, is pretty much an extended and enhanced version of the VCS used for database failover clusters. Veritas DBE/AC is a certified cluster framework that is built in with Cluster File System and it is ODM compliant.

Set direct I/O for Veritas: convosync=direct. It is also possible to enable direct I/O on a per-file basis using Veritas QIO; refer to the "qiostat" command and corresponding man page for hints.

Oracle’s DBWR now writes continuously without waiting for previous writes to complete. The new design allows DBWR to act as if it were inherently synchronous, regardless of whether the operating system supports asynchronous I/O or not.

To determine whether to use multiple DBWn processes or database slaves, follow these guidelines:

Use db_writer_processes for most write intensive applications. One per CPU is the recommended setting.


Use db_writer_processes for databases that have a large data buffer cache.


Use dbwr_io_slaves for applications that are not write intensive and run on operating systems that support asynchronous I/O.


Use dbwr_io_slaves on platforms that do no support asynchronous I/O.


Use dbwr_io_slaves on single CPU systems. Multiple DBWR processes are CPU intensive.
 
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