Automatic Vg activation + sun storage

[rajasekar.m]

Hi Gurus,

Whenever the server got rebooted the VG activation is not happening, Please guide me ASAP.

# ioscan -funC disk
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
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disk 4 0/0/1/1.2.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP 73.4GMAS3735NC
/dev/dsk/c1t2d0 /dev/rdsk/c1t2d0
disk 5 0/0/2/0.2.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP 73.4GMAS3735NC
/dev/dsk/c2t2d0 /dev/rdsk/c2t2d0
disk 0 0/0/2/1.2.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP DVD-ROM 305
/dev/dsk/c3t2d0 /dev/rdsk/c3t2d0
disk 6 0/10/0/0.1.11.255.0.0.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE SUN StorEdge 3510
/dev/dsk/c4t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0 /dev/rdsk/sunasm002
disk 7 0/10/0/0.1.11.255.0.0.1 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE SUN StorEdge 3510
/dev/dsk/c4t0d1 /dev/rdsk/c4t0d1
disk 8 0/10/0/0.1.11.255.0.0.2 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE SUN StorEdge 3510
/dev/dsk/c4t0d2 /dev/rdsk/c4t0d2 /dev/rdsk/sunasm003
disk 9 0/10/0/0.1.11.255.0.0.5 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE SUN StorEdge 3510
/dev/dsk/c4t0d5 /dev/rdsk/c4t0d5 /dev/rdsk/sunasm004
disk 10 0/10/0/0.1.11.255.0.0.6 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE SUN StorEdge 3510
/dev/dsk/c4t0d6 /dev/rdsk/c4t0d6 /dev/rdsk/sunasm005
disk 1 0/10/0/0.1.12.255.0.0.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE SUN StorEdge 3510
/dev/dsk/c5t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0
disk 2 0/10/0/0.1.12.255.0.0.1 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE SUN StorEdge 3510
/dev/dsk/c5t0d1 /dev/rdsk/c5t0d1 /dev/rdsk/sunasm006
disk 3 0/10/0/0.1.12.255.0.0.2 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE SUN StorEdge 3510
/dev/dsk/c5t0d2 /dev/rdsk/c5t0d2 /dev/rdsk/sunasm007
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# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/vg00/lvol3 / vxfs delaylog 0 1
/dev/vg00/lvol1 /stand hfs defaults 0 1
/dev/vg00/lvol6 /opt vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol7 /tmp vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol8 /usr vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol9 /var vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol4 /opt/oracle hfs defaults 0 2
/dev/vgserengeti0/lvol1 /data1 vxfs log,nodatainlog,largefiles,rw,suid 0 0
/dev/vgserengeti0/lvol2 /data2 vxfs log,nodatainlog,largefiles,rw,suid 0 0
/dev/vgserengeti0/lvol3 /data3 vxfs log,nodatainlog,largefiles,rw,suid 0 0
/dev/vgserengeti0/lvol4 /data4 vxfs log,nodatainlog,largefiles,rw,suid 0 0
/dev/vgserengeti0/lvol5 /data5 vxfs log,nodatainlog,largefiles,rw,suid 0 0
sarabi.pta.za.go2uti.com:/backup/NFS /backup nfs rw,hard 0 0
sarabi.pta.za.go2uti.com:/opt/utrac/cnt/reports /opt/utrac/cnt/reports nfs rw,hard 0 0
/dev/vgserengeti1/lvol10 /dbackup vxfs rw,suid,nolargefiles,delaylog,datainlog 0 2
/dev/vgserengeti1/lvol11 /xib vxfs rw,suid,nolargefiles,delaylog,datainlog 0 2

[Patrick Wallek]

So, what is happening? What does /etc/rc.log or /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log say about the VG activation?

Also check your /etc/lvmrc file and make sure AUTO_VG_ACTIVATE is set to 1. If it is not, then ONLY the VGs listed in the manual VG activation section of that file will be activated.