topic Re: Problems with vgextend in Operating System - HP-UX

Problems with vgextend

Victor Burguillos_4 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:55:35 GMT

Hello Everibody,
I try to extend a vg00 with the following commnad:
vgextend -A y -x y /dev/vg00 /dev/dsk/c2t0d0

But the output showme the following error:
vgextend: Couldn't open physical volume "/dev/rdisk/disk4_p2":
Verification of unique LVM disk id on each disk in the volume group
/dev/vg00 failed.

What can I Do?

Regards,

VB

PD: OS HPUX 11.31

Re: Problems with vgextend

Torsten. — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:08:48 GMT

Please post

# ioscan -fn
# ioscan -m dsf
# vgdisplay -v vg00
# strings /etc/lvmtab

Re: Problems with vgextend

Anka — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:58:20 GMT

http://www12.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en&docId=emr_na-c00929701-5

and there is also an issue with EMC firmware and 11.31, a requiremenst for the SPC-2 mode enabled.

Not sure which case matches your problem, and whether it matches as no outputs are pasted.....

Re: Problems with vgextend

Victor Burguillos_4 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:01:41 GMT

Attach the info.

Re: Problems with vgextend

Torsten. — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:08:58 GMT

Do you want to mirror the root disk?

You must use

/dev/rdisk/disk5_p2

not only /dev/dsk/c2t0d0

Complete procedure for 11.31:

http://docs.hp.com/en/5992-3385/ch03s04.html#cbddaicd

Note: you have an Integrity!

Re: Problems with vgextend

Victor Burguillos_4 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:10:44 GMT

I just want extend vg00 with another internal disk.

Regards

Re: Problems with vgextend

Torsten. — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:20:34 GMT

A 73GB disk should be large enough for vg00 - why do you want to extend it?

Anyway, did you pvcreate the disk?

Use /dev/rdisk/disk5 !

Re: Problems with vgextend

Victor Burguillos_4 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:13:14 GMT

I doing but when try to extend vg00 show me the same error

Re: Problems with vgextend

Michael Steele_2 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:58:39 GMT

I don't think you want to use /dev/rdsk

Use /dev/dsk

Re: Problems with vgextend

Anka — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:18:35 GMT

Can you try adding the disk /dev/dsk/c2t0d0 in another VG to see whether is works....