topic VG Activation Problem in Operating System - HP-UX

VG Activation Problem

Jahangir Kabir — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:08:54 GMT

Hi,

we have 2 nodes (rp4440) in test environment, and it was clustered. both server has common storage.
someone wrongly deleted the cluster informations by "cmdeleteconf". Now the problem is there are 3 Volume
groups(vglock,vgdata,vgscp) and we cannot activate the volume groups by
"vgchange -a y /dev/vgxxx"
while lvmtab showing the vg information and ioscan claims all the pv.the vgchange command shows the following outputs:

# vgchange -a n /dev/vglock
vgchange: Volume group "/dev/vglock" has been successfully changed.

# vgchange -a y /dev/vglock
vgchange: Activation mode requested for the volume group "/dev/vglock" conflicts
with configured mode.

we've also tried with the exclusive mode.
# vgchange -a e /dev/vglock
vgchange: Cluster Services not available or unreachable on this system, for volume group "/dev/vglock".

Pls help ...

Regards

Jahangir Kabir

Re: VG Activation Problem

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:11:48 GMT

You must first turn off the cluster aware bit for the VG.

# vgchange -c n /dev/vglock

Now you should be able to activate it.

# vgchange -a y /dev/vglock

Re: VG Activation Problem

Calandrello — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:49:15 GMT

Friend
this occurs due the configuration of its VG it this asset way to cluster then the activation must above as be informed in the topico.

Re: VG Activation Problem

Jahangir Kabir — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:51:28 GMT

Hi Patrick

Thanks for your help. its worked like magic.

Hi Calandrello

Thanks for your response .

Best Regards

Jahangir Kabir

Re: VG Activation Problem

Jahangir Kabir — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:37:17 GMT

best regards