need help to migrate info

[loy4lplay]

I have an HP-UX box running 11.23 and I need to move all of our existing data to a new storage, below is our current LVM info:

--- Volume groups ---
VG Name                     /dev/vg01
VG Write Access             read/write
VG Status                   available
Max LV                      255
Cur LV                      6
Open LV                     6
Max PV                      16
Cur PV                      1
Act PV                      1
Max PE per PV               35002
VGDA                        2
PE Size (Mbytes)            8
Total PE                    34998
Alloc PE                    22912
Free PE                     12086
Total PVG                   0
Total Spare PVs             0
Total Spare PVs in use      0

   --- Logical volumes ---
   LV Name                     /dev/vg01/lvol1
   LV Status                   available/syncd
   LV Size (Mbytes)            137216
   Current LE                  17152
   Allocated PE                17152
   Used PV                     1

   LV Name                     /dev/vg01/lvol2
   LV Status                   available/syncd
   LV Size (Mbytes)            4096
   Current LE                  512
   Allocated PE                512
   Used PV                     1

   LV Name                     /dev/vg01/lvol3
   LV Status                   available/syncd
   LV Size (Mbytes)            30720
   Current LE                  3840
   Allocated PE                3840
   Used PV                     1

   LV Name                     /dev/vg01/lvhome
   LV Status                   available/syncd
   LV Size (Mbytes)            2048
   Current LE                  256
   Allocated PE                256
   Used PV                     1

   LV Name                     /dev/vg01/lvol5
   LV Status                   available/syncd
   LV Size (Mbytes)            1024
   Current LE                  128
   Allocated PE                128
   Used PV                     1

   LV Name                     /dev/vg01/lvtempo
   LV Status                   available/syncd
   LV Size (Mbytes)            8192
   Current LE                  1024
   Allocated PE                1024
   Used PV                     1

   --- Physical volumes ---
   PV Name                     /dev/dsk/c3t0d1
   PV Name                     /dev/dsk/c4t0d1  Alternate Link
   PV Name                     /dev/dsk/c5t0d0  Alternate Link
   PV Status                   available
   Total PE                    34998
   Free PE                     12086
   Autoswitch                  On
   Proactive Polling           On

VG Name                     /dev/vg00
VG Write Access             read/write
VG Status                   available
Max LV                      255
Cur LV                      9
Open LV                     9
Max PV                      16
Cur PV                      1
Act PV                      1
Max PE per PV               4216
VGDA                        2
PE Size (Mbytes)            8
Total PE                    4206
Alloc PE                    4206
Free PE                     0
Total PVG                   0
Total Spare PVs             0
Total Spare PVs in use      0

   --- Logical volumes ---
   LV Name                     /dev/vg00/lvol1
   LV Status                   available/syncd
   LV Size (Mbytes)            304
   Current LE                  38
   Allocated PE                38
   Used PV                     1

   LV Name                     /dev/vg00/lvol2
   LV Status                   available/syncd
   LV Size (Mbytes)            9216
   Current LE                  1152
   Allocated PE                1152
   Used PV                     1

   LV Name                     /dev/vg00/lvol3
   LV Status                   available/syncd
   LV Size (Mbytes)            536
   Current LE                  67
   Allocated PE                67
   Used PV                     1

   LV Name                     /dev/vg00/lvol4
   LV Status                   available/syncd
   LV Size (Mbytes)            56
   Current LE                  7
   Allocated PE                7
   Used PV                     1

   LV Name                     /dev/vg00/lvol5
   LV Status                   available/syncd
   LV Size (Mbytes)            7000
   Current LE                  875
   Allocated PE                875
   Used PV                     1

   LV Name                     /dev/vg00/lvol6
   LV Status                   available/syncd
   LV Size (Mbytes)            200
   Current LE                  25
   Allocated PE                25
   Used PV                     1

   LV Name                     /dev/vg00/lvol7
   LV Status                   available/syncd
   LV Size (Mbytes)            5832
   Current LE                  729
   Allocated PE                729
   Used PV                     1

   LV Name                     /dev/vg00/lvol8
   LV Status                   available/syncd
   LV Size (Mbytes)            4360
   Current LE                  545
   Allocated PE                545
   Used PV                     1

   LV Name                     /dev/vg00/lvol9
   LV Status                   available/syncd
   LV Size (Mbytes)            6144
   Current LE                  768
   Allocated PE                768
   Used PV                     1

   --- Physical volumes ---
   PV Name                     /dev/dsk/c7t0d0s2
   PV Status                   available
   Total PE                    4206
   Free PE                     0
   Autoswitch                  On
   Proactive Polling           On

Mirro-UX is installed, for vg01 do I have to present a single LUN that is as large as /dev/dsk/c3t0d1 and it will be mirroring automatically? what about vg00? what would be the procedure to migrate the existing data to our new storage and then remove the LUNs from the old storage?

Thanks

[Bill Hassell]

There's a lot of missing information here.

model of the computer?

What is the new storage (interface, SAN details, array models, etc)?

Is Mirror/UX installed?

Currently, none of the disks are mirrored at all.

Is vg00 using an internal disk?

For your new storage, do you know if your interface card and the disk storage will support booting from HP-UX?

For vg01, the steps are fairly simple as long as the storage is compatible.

vg00 requires a large number of commands to allow bootup to succeed.

[loy4lplay]

The machine is a rx3600.

The new storage is a VNX (FiberChannel interface) and current storage is FC as well.

MirrorUX is installed.

The reason the disks are not mirrored is probably because its a large LUN thats already mirrored @ storage level.

vg00 is using /dev/dsk/c7t0d0s2 which ioscan shows as an IR Volume volume so I assume its internal yes.

Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
====================================================================================
disk 0 0/0/2/1.0.16.0.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE TEAC DV-28E-N
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0
disk 1 0/3/1/0/4/0.1.1.0.0.0.1 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP MSA VOLUME
/dev/dsk/c3t0d1 /dev/rdsk/c3t0d1
disk 4 0/3/1/0/4/0.1.1.255.0.0.1 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP MSA VOLUME
/dev/dsk/c4t0d1 /dev/rdsk/c4t0d1
disk 3 0/4/1/0.0.0.0.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP IR Volume
/dev/dsk/c7t0d0 /dev/dsk/c7t0d0s1 /dev/dsk/c7t0d0s2 /dev/dsk/c7t0d0s3 /dev/rdsk/c7t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c7t0d0s1 /dev/rdsk/c7t0d0s2 /dev/rdsk/c7t0d0s3
disk 2 0/7/1/0/4/0.1.0.0.0.0.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP MSA VOLUME
/dev/dsk/c5t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0

Thanks for your reply Bill and hope you can guide me.

[Bill Hassell]

OK. The IR volume means that your rx3600 has a built-in disk array controller called a Smart Array. Since this is already mirrored and perhaps striped for performance, I would leave vg00 as is. This will save a *LOT* of work, and possibly after all that effort, your VNX storage may not even support HP-UX boot. There is no advantage to moving off the internal disks for vg00. The Smart Array makes it very easy to replace a bad disk in the rx3600.

For vg01, it is fairly simple. You currently have a single LUN from the HP MSA storage which is 34998 extents of 8 MB each for a total of 279984 MB (about 280 GB). So have your VNX storage administrator present a 280 GB LUN to your system. Be absolutely sure that the presentation mode is HP-UX and not Windows, etc.

Once presented, scan for the new disk and use insf to create the new disk LUN on HP-UX:

# ioscan -fnCdisk

 (you'll see the new disk as it will not have any device files associated with it)

# insf -Cdisk

(you'll see the new device file names for this LUN).

If you don't see any device files reported, stop. You'll need to troubleshoot the SAN presentation.

I'll refer to the new device as cXtYdZ.

Check the size and read a couple of hundred MB of data to test the LUN:

# diskinfo /dev/rdsk/cXtYdZ
# dd if=/dev/rdsk/cXtYdZ of=/dev/null bs=1024k count=200

 If the size of the LUN is correct (diskinfo queries the LUN itself) and the dd command completes without an error, then initialize the disk for LVM use:

# pvcreate /dev/rdsk/cXtYdZ

 Now add the disk to vg01:

# vgextend vg01 /dev/dsk/cXtYdZ

If you run the command: vgdisplay vg01

you'll see that the Cur PV changed from 1 to 2 (PV = Physical Volume).

If you have more than one fibre cable running to the VNX storage, you need to add the Alternate paths to vg01. Just use vgextend vg01 /dev/dsk/__CTD__ for each alternate path.

Now mirror each disk.

You can run lvextend on each lvol one at a time, or use this short script to run all of them in order:

for LVOL in $(vgdisplay -v vg01 | awk '/LV Name/{print $NF}')
do
lvextend -m 1 $LVOL /dev/dsk/cXtYdZ
done

 Then check with vgdisplay -v vg01 that all the lvols have Used PV = 2.

To switch over to justy using the VNX storage, just reduce each of the lvols.

for LVOL in $(vgdisplay -v vg01 | awk '/LV Name/{print $NF}')
do
lvreduce -m 0 $LVOL /dev/dsk/c3t0d1
done

The above shows c3t0d1 which is from your listing for vg01.

Check that all the extents on the old LUN are free: vgdisplay -v vg01

(where Total PE = Free PE on the MSA LUN).

Again, stop if any of the above steps show any errors.

Now remove the old disks from vg01:

# vgreduce vg01 /dev/dsk/c5t0d1 /dev/dsk/c4t0d1 /dev/dsk/c3t0d1

vg01 is now completely migrated to the VNX.

At a later time, you should use rmsf -H to get rid of the old MSA device files. -H requires the hardware paths (from ioscan).

[loy4lplay]

Bill,

Thanks a bunch! I will be seeing only one path to the VNX because the other PATH will be seeing the MSA, when I'm done migrating I will disconnect the other PATH (the other thats connected directly to the MSA) and connect it to our FC switch so I will be seeing a new path to the VNX (2 PATHs total) what will I have to do to add the alternate path then?

[Bill Hassell]

To keep things clean, use rmsf -H <hw_path> for the MSA LUNs.

Then, it will be the same steps (present the LUN on the new path, ioscan, insf) but do NOT run pvcreate -- that has already been done.

Use vgextend to add the path -- it will comment that the path is an alternate.

And that's it. Use vgdisplay -v vg01 to see the alternate path at the end.

[loy4lplay]

Bill,

vgextend vg01 /dev/dsk/c10t0d1
vgextend: Warning: Max_PE_per_PV for the volume group (35002) too small for this PV (37119).
Using only 35002 PEs from this physical volume.
Couldn't open physical volume "/dev/rdsk/c3t0d1":
Verification of unique LVM disk id on each disk in the volume group
vg01 failed.

[Patrick Wallek]

>>vgextend: Warning: Max_PE_per_PV for the volume group (35002) too small for this PV (37119).
>>Using only 35002 PEs from this physical volume.

The new LUN from your SAN is too large for thei VG.  It will only use part of the LUN and not the whole thing.

>>Couldn't open physical volume "/dev/rdsk/c3t0d1":
>>Verification of unique LVM disk id on each disk in the volume group vg01 failed.

This is likely because c3t0d1 is an alternate path for the MSA storage used by the VG.  Try reducing the c3t0d1 from the VG by using:

# vgreduce /dev/vg01 /dev/dsk/c3t0d1

Once that is done, use 'vgdisplay -v vg01' to see what disks are in the VG.

[loy4lplay]

vgreduce /dev/vg01 /dev/dsk/c3t0d1
Device file path "/dev/dsk/c3t0d1" is an alternate path.

Volume group "/dev/vg01" has been successfully reduced.
Volume Group configuration for /dev/vg01 has been saved in /etc/lvmconf/vg01.conf

--- Physical volumes ---
PV Name /dev/dsk/c5t0d0
PV Name /dev/dsk/c4t0d1 Alternate Link
PV Status available
Total PE 34998
Free PE 12086
Autoswitch On
Proactive Polling On

[Patrick Wallek]

Now try running your vgextend again.

# vgextend vg01 /dev/dsk/c10t0d1