Operating System - HP-UX
1753838 Members
9044 Online
108806 Solutions
New Discussion юеВ

Re: Ignite disk selection to diffrent hardware

 
Larry Basford
Regular Advisor

Ignite disk selection to diffrent hardware

When I Ignite an N4000 from an L2000
The boot disk is /dev/dsk/c2t0d0 (0/0/2/0.0.0) which does not exist.

Ignite always selects my EMC VCM database disk 000 to install to
1/12/0/0.116.2.6.0.0.0 LVM vg00 45 MB

How can I make it default to my internal disk ?
Or make it not see my EMC VCM database disk?
тФВ 1/12/0/0.116.2.6.0.0.0 LVM vg00 45 MB
Desaster recovery? Right !
7 REPLIES 7
DCE
Honored Contributor

Re: Ignite disk selection to diffrent hardware



Larry,

Do the advanced installation, you should have a screen come up that allows you to pick which disk to use

Also, on the basics tab, select the additional button and set clone to different hardware = True
Peter Godron
Honored Contributor

Re: Ignite disk selection to diffrent hardware

Larry,
are you running the ignite interactive (-i). This should give you the option on where to install. Is all your other hardware between the two server types compatible?
Tim Nelson
Honored Contributor

Re: Ignite disk selection to diffrent hardware

Just a side note.

Be carefull cloning from one HW platform to another. Although the L/rp54xx series is funtionally close to an N/rp74xx series you may run into issues with different drivers required due to some minor HW differences.

Cloning same HW is good, attempting one to another is AYOR ( At Your Own Risk )

Larry Basford
Regular Advisor

Re: Ignite disk selection to diffrent hardware

ALL good answers but not to the question asked.
How can I make it default to my internal disk ? or NOT see the EMC disks.
I know how to change it I just don't want to.
This is for local High Availibility failover.
The N ignites fine as long as you have the drivers loaded for either hardware. like FC card differences.

Desaster recovery? Right !
DCE
Honored Contributor

Re: Ignite disk selection to diffrent hardware



unplug/disable the emc disks before igniting is about the only I know of.
DCE
Honored Contributor

Re: Ignite disk selection to diffrent hardware



Larry,

I did some research - the ignite installation configuration manual chapter 7 has instructions to configure the defaults for a client in /var/opt/ignite/clients/ox...

It is pages 162 and 163
Larry Basford
Regular Advisor

Re: Ignite disk selection to diffrent hardware

It looks like I might make a make_tape_recovery with a -p to preview
Then change the /var/opt/ignite/recovery/2007-02-07,21:25/system_cfg
from init _hp_root_disk="0/0/2/0.0.0"
to init _hp_root_disk="0/0/2/0.6.0"
then again with -r to resume
And when it loads on the N4000 it should find the disk.

I guess I'll have to try it.
Desaster recovery? Right !