Adding a Vdisk to EVA and extending VG

Mauro Livi — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:31:00 GMT

I asked this some time ago but was never able to implement due to other priorities. Last time I asked I got varying opinions so I'll ask again.

1) I have an EVA4400 (version 0953400) with available disk space to allocate. I have a group of 4 Vdisks each of 225GB. I intend to add (i.e. create) another 225GB Vdisk (i.e. LUN) to this group and present it to the host.

2) My HPUX is an rp4440 at 11.11 (so I know that vgmodify is not available). Considering the following vgdisplay:

--- Volume groups ---

VG Name /dev/vg02

VG Write Access read/write

VG Status available

Max LV 255

Cur LV 7

Open LV 7

Max PV 16

Cur PV 4

Act PV 4

Max PE per PV 50000

VGDA 8

PE Size (Mbytes) 32

Total PE 28792

Alloc PE 28776

Free PE 16

Total PVG 0

Total Spare PVs 0

Total Spare PVs in use 0

Once the new Vdisk is created and presented (in step 1 above) I should be able to:

3) Run vgextend on vg02

4) Extend (i.e. lvextend) any lvol on vg02 at this point

I know I can also create a new VG, but I thought the steps above would be the least painless way to add additional space. So, does my process above look correct?

Thanks in advance for any input.

Mauro

Re: Adding a Vdisk to EVA and extending VG

hvhari — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 07:44:42 GMT

Yes, you can do these steps which is the quickest way.

If you can split the additional space to a separate file system, you may go for a new LV with the new LUN.

Re: Adding a Vdisk to EVA and extending VG

Mauro Livi — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:14:17 GMT

Thank you Hari...that's what I thought

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