topic Re: EVA 4000 LUN Expansion on VMS in Operating System - OpenVMS

EVA 4000 LUN Expansion on VMS

Del_3 — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:29:51 GMT

Can anyone confirm or deny the following LUN/Vdisk expansion procedure works non-destructively on VMS 7.3 on an EVA 4000?

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/wizard/wiz_9349.html

To enable Dynamic Volume Expansion (DVE) on an existing disk volume (available on V7.3-2 and later), dismount the volume and remount it
privately. Issue the DCL command SET VOLUME/LIMIT. Dismount and then remount the volume appropriately; remount the volume for your normal operations. When more storage is required, you can now issue the DCL command SET VOLUME/SIZE to resize the volume.

Re: EVA 4000 LUN Expansion on VMS

Karl Rohwedder — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:34:15 GMT

As the wizard writes: 'on V7.3-2 and later'
It seems you have V7.3.

regards Kalle

Re: EVA 4000 LUN Expansion on VMS

Tom O'Toole — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:42:05 GMT

VMS 7.3 can use volumes that have been resized on 7.3-2 systems (I'm pretty sure). Since you are dismounting anyway, if you have a spare 7.3-2 system to which to present this volume, you should be able to do it that way.

Re: EVA 4000 LUN Expansion on VMS

Volker Halle — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:03:52 GMT

From the system manager manual:

'Volumes that use the dynamic volume expansion feature can be used by any AlphaServer or VAX system
running OpenVMS Version 7.2 or higher.'

If running V7.3, you could do the expansion also when booted from an OpenVMS V7.3-2 (or higher) CD.

Volker.

Re: EVA 4000 LUN Expansion on VMS

Volker Halle — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:23:34 GMT

When you want to use the CD method, use an OpenVMS Alpha V8.2 CD, as there is a problem with the SET VOLUME/LIMIT command when booted from a V7.3-2 CD.

Volker.

Re: EVA 4000 LUN Expansion on VMS

Del_3 — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:06:28 GMT

Sorry for misleading. We are on 7.3-2 and booting from local drives.

Thanks all for your confirmation.

Re: EVA 4000 LUN Expansion on VMS

Jan van den Ende — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 04:06:23 GMT

Del,

from your Forum Profile:

I have assigned points to 16 of 51 responses to my questions.

Some of those questions date back to 2004.

Maybe you can find some time to do some assigning?

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33

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Consider, that every poster took at least the trouble of posting for you!

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Thanks on behalf of your Forum colleagues.

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Proost.

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jpe