Trying to create VG off of a VA7100 array

[Torsten.]

You have no LUNs configured:

REGULAR LUNs:_________________________0 bytes

You have to create them!

[Mark Allen_3]

Is there any reason why the 2 Lun's originally created by the company I purchased the machine from, would disappear?

I went in and recreated the Lun's and they are there now. Weird!

Thanks guys for all your help!!!

[Torsten.]

"Is there any reason why the 2 Lun's originally created by the company I purchased the machine from, would disappear?"

No! If the array is properly shuted down, all config info is stored on the map-disks and the controllers. Even if the controllers loose the info, they will read it from the disks.

[chris huys_4]

Hi,

Just a total hijack of the thread. ;)
This is how you create a lun on va diskarray.

Greetz,
Chris

soda # which armdsp
/opt/sanmgr/commandview/client/sbin/armdsp

soda # armdsp -i

Product ID: HP-A6189B
Device Type: Virtual Disk Array
Alias: VA7110
World Wide Name: 50060b000015133d
Unique ID: HPA6189B00DEH4452EKM
Serial Number: 00DEH4452EKM
Management Path: soda.bel.hp.com:/dev/rscsi/c9t0d0

soda # armdsp -a 00DEH4452EKM > /var/tmp/armdsp_a

check for the latest created lun.
#vi /var/tmp/armdsp_a
[..]
LUN 62:
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Active:_______________________________True
Data Capacity:________________________1 GB
WWN:__________________________________60060b000015133d003e000000000063
Number Of Business Copies:____________0

create lun 63

soda # armcfg -L 63 -g 1 -a 10m 00DEH4452EKM
LUN 63, RG 1, 10 MB created

soda # armdsp -a 00DEH4452EKM > /var/tmp/armdsp_a_2

LUN 63:
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Active:_______________________________True
Data Capacity:________________________10 MB
WWN:__________________________________60060b000015133d003f000000000064
Number Of Business Copies:____________0

ioscan -fn
disk 280 0/4/0/0.39.22.0.0.7.7 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP
A6189B

(7*8 + 7 = 63 = LUN 63)

insf -e -v

ioscan -fn
disk 280 0/4/0/0.39.22.0.0.7.7 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP
A6189B
/dev/dsk/c8t7d7 /dev/rdsk/c8t7d7

soda # diskinfo /dev/rdsk/c8t7d7
SCSI describe of /dev/rdsk/c8t7d7:
vendor: HP
product id: A6189B
type: direct access
size: 10240 Kbytes
bytes per sector: 512