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Add disk from SAN

bazen — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:07:03 GMT

Hello all,

My Problem: Need to create a backup space on a SAN disk. Therefore i'm trying to reserve disk space on SAN (CX600) can see the LUNZ via ioscan -fnC disk. But the next steps did not work. Can one of you show the steps to take? Thanks for your help.

Regards

Re: Add disk from SAN

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:14:24 GMT

After correct presentation of the disk to the system, which is done by world wide name, (fcmsutil /dev/td0 for that)

insf -C

Disk should get an instance number and be ready for the pvcreate command.

SEP

Re: Add disk from SAN

Scott Frye_1 — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:14:29 GMT

Attached are my steps for creating filesystems on our CX600.

Re: Add disk from SAN

hpuxrox — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:10:52 GMT

You will need to run

insf -e

to add the drivers for the new LUN