Importing EVA snapshot of shared disk

[Jason Ray]

I am trying to use snapshots on my EVA8000 with VxVM 4.1 on HP-UX 11.23.

The LUN that I am taking the snapshot of is part of a Veritas shared disk group in a Serviceguard 2 node cluster.

The snapshot on the EAV8k works fine. However, I haven't been able to find a way to import that disk onto another machine. The presentation works and the machine is able to see the snapshot. But the import fails with this:
VxVM vxdg ERROR V-5-1-587 Disk group qaglddg: import failed: Disk in use by another cluster

The machine I am importing the disk onto is also part of a 2 node Serviceguard cluster. But it looks like Veritas won't let you import a shared disk onto a machine if the clusterid is different.

Has anyone tried doing anything with EVA snapshots with Veritas shared disks? I know one solution is to first deport the disk on the original machine and then take the snapshot so that its no longer a shared disk. But that would require an outage of the diskgroup so it wouldn't work for what we're trying to do.

[Ivan Ferreira · Accepted solution]

I would try this:

Disk in use by another cluster

Description: An attempt was made to import a disk group whose disks are stamped with the ID of another cluster.

Action: If the disk group is not imported by another cluster, retry the import using the -C (clear import) flag.

[Hasan Atasoy]

did you run command
vxdisk clearimport diskname
for each disk in this diskgroup before trying to import dg.

[Jason Ray]

Thanks. Using the -C option did clear off the clusterid. But when I tried the import it still failed so I forced it and it works but something else wierd happened. Veritas is complaining because a disk is missing. The shared disk group that this was copied from was 2 disks mirrored. I only took a snapshot of the 1 disk and was importing that.

So Veritas gives an error that the other mirror disk is missing. Which shouldn't make a difference because I should still be able to mount the filesystems off of the imported snapshot.

root@anchovy /
#vxdg -s import qaglddg
VxVM vxdg ERROR V-5-1-587 Disk group qaglddg: import failed: Disk for disk group not found
root@anchovy /
#vxdg -sf import qaglddg
VxVM vxdg WARNING V-5-1-560 Disk qaglddg_01b: Not found, last known location: c84t0d2
root@anchovy /
#vxdisk list
DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS
c0t0d2s2 auto:hpdisk rootdisk01 rootdg online
c8t0d1s2 auto:hpdisk rootdisk02 rootdg online
c8t0d3 auto:cdsdisk qaglddg_01a qaglddg online shared nohotuse
- - qaglddg_01b qaglddg failed nohotuse was:c84t0d2