vgchange: Too many links

[Aneesh Mohan]

Yes , that is what I have mentioned initially.

Aneesh

[mjos]

Ok, is there any way I can remove the links that doesnt show up in alternate links but shows up as error messages in the vgdisplay command

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

Ok, is there any way I can remove the links that doesnt show up in alternate links but shows up as error messages in the vgdisplay command

>>run vgremove vgname alternate path<<

[Aneesh Mohan]

Hi,

Just do

# vgreduce -f vg_db01

Aneesh

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

>>Ok, is there any way I can remove the links that doesnt show up in alternate links but shows up as error messages in the vgdisplay command

>>run vgremove vgname alternate path<<

Sorry !! Sorry !!wrong posting --> Apologies

vgreduce /dev/vg /dev/dsk/cxdxsx

[mjos]

thanks, there are lots of alternate paths, so I need to do this for each one of them. Is there any single command which will remove the alternate links which are not a part of the VG? The vgremove command can do this but the issue is I need to run this command for a large number of disks.

[mjos]

Ooops sorry not vgremove, it is vgreduce...

[mjos]

Aneesh, vgreduce -f doesn't work. The vgdispaly still shows up errors

# vgdisplay -v /dev/vg_db01

vgdisplay: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c68t2d6":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group
vgdisplay: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c72t2d6":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group
vgdisplay: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c92t2d6":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group
........
........

[Torsten.]

16 links to a LUN? What array is it?

Normally it doesn't make so much sense to configure so many links.

[mjos]

It is an HP EVA - 6110. I think the way the server was zoned to see the array, the lun presented to it ends up in 16 alternate links. But since it is 11.23, it is taking up only 7 alternate links to the primary path.