topic Move disk in Operating System - HP-UX

Move disk

zuoj — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:22:19 GMT

How to move a disk from a machine to other on HP-UX 11.0 vg00,and reserve data .
Thanks

Re: Move disk

Christine Hartman — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:41:11 GMT

if you are talking about moving the OS boot disk...that can be very tricky. The first concern is the hardware...are the two systems like hardware?
Also is the disk mirrored?
If it is and you are not bringing over the mirrored disk..you must boot up without quorum on the new system. Also I would recommend booting up into single user mode...you can make system specific changes (i.e. hostname, ip, fstab, etc.)

Also is the boot disk created with LVM or VxVM?

Re: Move disk

Sivakumar TS — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 06:03:29 GMT

If it is a LVM disk it is simple. Just connect the disk to the new system and run the following command

#vgimport /dev/vg00 /dev/dsk/c4t5d0

assuming vg00 is already existing the new system and the address of the transfered disk is c4t5d0.

Now all lvols which were present in the disk will be imported to vg00 and data can be accessed without any problem.