can I export vgs to different host with EVA volumes?

[Dave Chamberlin]

Greetings and Happy freezing to all. I had an EVA attached to a test host, with several VGs and LV created. I haved moved the EVA to a new host and presented the volumes to the new host. Can I use vgexport/vgimport to access LVs that were created in testing, on the new host - or is there another way? Thanks!

[gstonian · Accepted solution]

G'day

Check this out:

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1036707

& read up on vgexport - esp. about mapfile where you can create a file to copy across to other servers and use with vgimport

Regards
G

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

vgexport before moving things around.

vgimport after presentation to the new system.

Should work fine then.

Happy freezing to all.

Is it cold in the USA?

SEP

[Torsten.]

Hi Dave,

importing should not be the problem. Just make sure you adjust the SAN zoning and LUN presentation. Use vgexport to "delete" the LUN config from the test server.

[Dave Chamberlin]

The export/import worked fine (after creation of the vg files in /dev and using insf to create needed device files.