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Re: LVM: Unable to map all the LEs to unique PEs

 
rescuehp17
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LVM: Unable to map all the LEs to unique PEs

All the disks are SAN disks. I am trying to migrate one SAN to different SAN as the old one expiring. So I was trying to migrate from old to new disks. Since vgtest VG has more than 50 file systems, this particualar FS is only 5gb. but I can't mirror the LV and allocate 5gb only. So what i did was, I mirrored the LV lvtest and then while lvreduce, I removed all the old disks and then all the new disks except disk1520, thinking just to keep the data on one disk for this FS which is only of 5Gb. However, it ended up removing all the new disks, except disk1520(25gb) as expected, but didn't remove the old disks. So I tried to mirror back and I get the following error: Help please:

(root) > lvextend -m 1 /dev/vgtest/lvtest pvg7
LVM: Unable to map all the LEs to unique PEs.
lvextend: The LVM device driver could not extend the
logical volume "/dev/vgtest/lvtest".

New disks:

/dev/disk/disk1520
/dev/disk/disk1521
/dev/disk/disk1522
/dev/disk/disk1523
/dev/disk/disk1524
/dev/disk/disk1525
/dev/disk/disk1526
/dev/disk/disk1527
/dev/disk/disk1528
/dev/disk/disk1529
/dev/disk/disk1530
/dev/disk/disk1531

Old disks:

/dev/disk/disk581
/dev/disk/disk582
/dev/disk/disk587
/dev/disk/disk589
/dev/disk/disk605
/dev/disk/disk606
/dev/disk/disk607
/dev/disk/disk608
/dev/disk/disk609
/dev/disk/disk610
/dev/disk/disk611

 

How can I remove the old disks without downtime? Please don't say I have to create one 270G lun to migrate as all the old disks together is 270gig and all the new 11 disks are 25Gb each, which is total of 300gb.

Please suggest!

 

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TTr
Honored Contributor

Re: LVM: Unable to map all the LEs to unique PEs

Use "lvdisplay -v /dev/vgtest/lvtest" and examine each LE and each current PE for this logical volume. The check if you have the right LVM geometry on the new disk in pvg7 using "pvdisplay -v ...".

rescuehp17
Frequent Advisor

Re: LVM: Unable to map all the LEs to unique PEs

--- Distribution of logical volume ---
PV Name LE on PV PE on PV
/dev/disk/disk581 12 12
/dev/disk/disk582 12 12
/dev/disk/disk587 13 13
/dev/disk/disk589 13 13
/dev/disk/disk605 13 13
/dev/disk/disk606 13 13
/dev/disk/disk607 13 13
/dev/disk/disk608 13 13
/dev/disk/disk609 13 13
/dev/disk/disk610 13 13
/dev/disk/disk611 13 13
/dev/disk/disk1520 13 13

 

TTr
Honored Contributor

Re: LVM: Unable to map all the LEs to unique PEs

You have 154 LEs and PEs on the old disks. Are they all the same size? Do you have that many PEs on the new disk disk1520 and are they of the same size as the PEs on the old disks? 

rescuehp17
Frequent Advisor

Re: LVM: Unable to map all the LEs to unique PEs

They are not. That is why I mirrored to the same PE extents. And that went fine. But instead of lvreduce just old set of disks, I did lvreduce all of the new disks except one, along with the old disks. But once i am done with that I did lvdisplay and notice, none of the old disks were removed from lvm, except one new lun. The following is the command I did to unmirror:

# lvreduce -m 0 /dev/vgtest/lvtest /dev/disk/disk581 /dev/disk/disk582 /dev/disk/disk587 /dev/disk/disk589 /dev/disk/disk605 /dev/disk/disk606 /dev/disk/disk607 /dev/disk/disk608 /dev/disk/disk609 /dev/disk/disk610 /dev/disk/disk611 /dev/disk/disk1521 /dev/disk/disk1522 /dev/disk/disk1523 /dev/disk/disk1524 /dev/disk/disk1525 /dev/disk/disk1526 /dev/disk/disk1527 /dev/disk/disk1528 /dev/disk/disk1529 /dev/disk/disk1530 /dev/disk/disk1531

# lvdisplay -v /dev/vgtest/lvtest

PV Name LE on PV PE on PV
/dev/disk/disk581 12 12
/dev/disk/disk582 12 12
/dev/disk/disk587 13 13
/dev/disk/disk589 13 13
/dev/disk/disk605 13 13
/dev/disk/disk606 13 13
/dev/disk/disk607 13 13
/dev/disk/disk608 13 13
/dev/disk/disk609 13 13
/dev/disk/disk610 13 13
/dev/disk/disk611 13 13
/dev/disk/disk1520 13 13

(root) > lvextend -m 1 /dev/vgtest/lvtest pvg7
LVM: Unable to map all the LEs to unique PEs.
lvextend: The LVM device driver could not extend the
logical volume "/dev/vgtest/lvtest".
(root) >

What is the solution now? Please suggest!

TTr
Honored Contributor

Re: LVM: Unable to map all the LEs to unique PEs

Look in to using the pvmove command. Move the PEs to one disk and then mirror. What sizes are the PEs on the old disks?

rescuehp17
Frequent Advisor

Re: LVM: Unable to map all the LEs to unique PEs

Old disk sizes are 25165824 Kbytes, (25Gb), which are 11 of them and new disks are 25Gb each too and are 12 disks in pvg7. Just now, I tried adding one more disk to pvg7 and tried to mirror, still failed with same error.

Can I do pvmove online without downtime? I have never did it. Can you please give me the steps just to make sure I use it right?

Thank you

TTr
Honored Contributor

Re: LVM: Unable to map all the LEs to unique PEs

I was asking about the PE sizes on old and new disks. Check the PE sizes of the old and new disks. Each disk.

You can do pvmove online. It's a very simple command to use. Look at the examples at the bottom of the man page.