How can I add a second hard disk to act act as mirror?

[Antonio Alano]

Hi,

I need help on creating a second hard disk to act as mirror disk to an existing hard disk.

1.) I previously created a backup of the OS using the command:
make_tape_recovery -A -I -v
2.) I then removed hard disk of slot 0 and place hard disk from slot 1 to slot 0 (that means slot 0 hard disk is now empty.
3.) then I restore the backup I created.
4.) Now everything is working with only one hard disk.
5.) I want to insert the other disk on slot 1 and make it as a mirror disk of the disk in slot 0.
6.) I do not have an HP-UX Mirror Disk s/w.

Please help on the process of how I can do this. Below is the print manifest of the system. I hope someone can guide me on this one.

thanks guys :)

Kind regards,

Antonio
# print_manifest

NOTE: Could not read the /etc/resolv.conf file.

System Information

Your Hewlett-Packard computer has software installed and
configured as follows.

The system was created May 08, 2008, 16:18:00 EDT.
It was created with Ignite-UX revision C.6.1.44.

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NOTE: You should retain this information for future reference.
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System Hardware

Model: 9000/800/rp3440
Main Memory: 8190 MB
Processors: 2
Proccesor(0) Speed: 800 MHz
Proccesor(1) Speed: 800 MHz
OS mode: 64 bit
LAN hardware ID: 0x00163573C11A
LAN hardware ID: 0x001560DE68E0
LAN hardware ID: 0x001560DE68E1
Software ID: Z3e1208a2c4da74dd
Keyboard Language: USB_PS2_DIN_US_English

Storage devices HW Path Interface
TEAC DVD-ROM DW-224EV 0/0/2/0.0.0.0 IDE Primary Channel
HP 73.4GST373454LC 70007 Mb 0/1/1/0.0.0 SCSI C1010 Ultra160 Wide LVD

I/O Interfaces
Class H/W Path Driver Description
usb 0/0/1/0 hcd NEC USB Interface
usb 0/0/1/1 hcd NEC USB Interface
usb 0/0/1/2 ehci NEC USB Interface
sideba 0/0/2/0 side_ba CMD IDE controller
ext_bus 0/0/2/0.0 side IDE Primary Channel
ext_bus 0/0/2/0.1 side IDE Secondary Channel
ext_bus 0/1/1/0 c8xx SCSI C1010 Ultra160 Wide LVD
ext_bus 0/1/1/1 c8xx SCSI C1010 Ultra160 Wide LVD
lan 0/1/2/0 igelan HP PCI 1000Base-T Core
ext_bus 0/4/1/0/4/0 mpt HP AB290-60001 PCI/PCI-X U320 SCSI 2-port U320 SCSI/2-port 1000B-T Combo Adapte
ext_bus 0/4/1/0/4/1 mpt HP AB290-60001 PCI/PCI-X U320 SCSI 2-port U320 SCSI/2-port 1000B-T Combo Adapte
lan 0/4/1/0/6/0 iether HP AB290-60001 PCI/PCI-X 1000Base-T 2-port U320 SCSI/2-port 1000B-T Combo Adapt
lan 0/4/1/0/6/1 iether HP AB290-60001 PCI/PCI-X 1000Base-T 2-port U320 SCSI/2-port 1000B-T Combo Adapt
tty 0/7/1/0 asio0 PCI SimpleComm (103c1290)
tty 0/7/1/1 asio0 PCI Serial (103c1048)
ipmi 16 ipmi IPMI Controller


Installed Software

Your system was installed with HP-UX version B.11.11.

Your system has the following software products installed and
configured on the system disk drive(s).

Product Revision Description
32070B C.11.00 OSI Trnspt and Srvcs for 9000/800
B6848BA 1.4.gm.46.9 Ximian GNOME 1.4 GTK+ Libraries for HP-UX
B8111AA 1.2.2.15.00 Java 2 RTE for HP-UX (700/800), PA1.1 + PA2.0 Add On
B8339BA B.03.00.09.02 servicecontrol manager Server and Agent Bundle
B8465BA A.02.00.05 HP WBEM Services for HP-UX
B9073BA B.11.11.06.50 HP-UX iCOD (Instant Capacity on Demand)
B9098AA 1.2.2.15.00 Java 2 Plugin for HP-UX (700/800)
B9788AA 1.3.1.13.01 Java2 1.3 SDK for HP-UX
B9789AA 1.3.1.13.01 Java2 1.3 RTE for HP-UX
BUNDLE11i B.11.11.0306.1 Required Patch Bundle for HP-UX 11i, June 2003
Base-VXVM B.03.50.5 Base VERITAS Volume Manager Bundle 3.5 for HP-UX
CDE-English B.11.11.0412 English CDE Environment
FDDI-00 B.11.11.02 PCI FDDI;Supptd HW=A3739A/A3739B;SW=J3626AA
FEATURE11-11 B.11.11.0209.5 Feature Enablement Patches for HP-UX 11i, Sept 2002
FibrChanl-00 B.11.11.12 PCI/HSC FibreChannel;Supptd HW=A6684A,A6685A,A5158A,A6795A
FibrChanl-01 B.11.11.04 PCI-X FibreChannel;Supptd HW=A6826A,A9782A,A9784A,AB465A
GigEther-00 B.11.11.19 PCI/HSC GigEther;Supptd HW=A4926A/A4929A/A4924A/A4925A;SW=J1642AA
GigEther-01 B.11.11.17 PCI/PCI-X GigEther;Supptd HW=A6794A/A6825A/A6847A/A9782A/A9784A/A7109A/AB465A
HPUX11i-OE B.11.11.0412 HP-UX 11i Operating Environment Component
HPUXBase64 B.11.11 HP-UX 64-bit Base OS
HPUXBaseAux B.11.11.0412 HP-UX Base OS Auxiliary
HWEnable11i B.11.11.0412.5 Hardware Enablement Patches for HP-UX 11i v1, December 2004
IEther-00 B.11.11.07 PCI/PCI-X IEther;Supptd HW=A7011A/A7012A/AB352A/AB290A/AB545A
IGNITE C.7.5.142 HP-UX Installation Utilities (Ignite-UX)
ISEEPlatform A.03.50.867 ISEE Platform
Ignite-UX-11-11 C.7.5.142 HP-UX Installation Utilities for Installing 11.11 Systems
Ignite-UX-11-23 C.7.5.142 HP-UX Installation Utilities for Installing 11.23 Systems
Ignite-UX-11-31 C.7.5.142 HP-UX Installation Utilities for Installing 11.31 Systems
MOZILLA 1.6.0.01.00 Mozilla 1.6 for HP-UX
MOZILLAsrc 1.6.0.01.00 Mozilla 1.6 Source distribution
NPar B.11.11.01.03.00.03nPartition Provider - HP-UX
NParCmds A.01.02 Enhanced NPartition Commands
OnlineDiag B.11.11.15.13 HPUX 11.11 Support Tools Bundle, Dec 2004
OpenSSL A.00.09.07-d.010 Secure Network Communications Protocol
ParMgr B.11.11.02.00.03.03Partition Manager - HP-UX
Patch_Bundle 2.06 Marconi SOO HP-UX 11.11 patch bundle
Patch_Bundle_2 2.03 Marconi SOO HP-UX 11.11 OV and fonts patch bundle
RAID-00 B.11.11.01 PCI RAID; Supptd HW=A5856A
RAID-01 B.11.11.04 RAID SA; Supptd HW=A7143A/A9890A/A9891A
SOO_Base_MV36DSP 11.2.16 Products for SOO_Base_MV36DSP v. 11.2.16
SOO_Base_MV36WSP 11.2.16 Products for SOO_Base_MV36WSP v. 11.2.16
SOO_Base_PSB 11.2.16 Products for SOO_Base_PSB v. 11.2.16
T1455AA 1.3.1.13.01 Java2 1.3 Netscape Plugin for HP-UX
T1456AA 1.4.2.04.00 Java2 1.4 SDK for HP-UX
T1456AAaddon 1.4.2.04.00 Java2 1.4 SDK -AA addon for HP-UX
T1457AA 1.4.2.04.00 Java2 1.4 RTE for HP-UX
T1457AAaddon 1.4.2.04.00 Java2 1.4 RTE -AA addon for HP-UX
T1458AA 1.4.2.04.00 Java2 1.4 Netscape Plugin for HP-UX
hpuxwsApache A.2.0.52.00 HP-UX Apache-based Web Server
hpuxwsTomcat A.4.1.29.04 HP-UX Tomcat-based Servlet Engine
hpuxwsWebmin A.1.070.02 HP-UX Webmin-based Admin
hpuxwsXml A.2.00 HP-UX XML Web Server Tools
perl D.5.8.0.E Perl Programming Language
scsiU320-00 B.11.11.02 PCI-X SCSI U320; Supptd HW=A7173A/AB290A
MV36core_150302 15.3.2 MV36 Element Manager
MV36coreph_150302_000615.03.02.0006 Core2-SP5 Multipurpose enhancement patch
MV36coreph_150302_000715.03.02.0007 MV36-Core java applications enhancement patch
MV36coreph_150302_000815.03.02.0008 CORE2-SP5 Multipurpose fixing patch
MV36coreph_150302_001015.03.02.0010 Multipurpose patch
MV36coreph_150302_001115.03.02.0011 Multipurpose fixing patch
MV36coreph_150302_001215.03.02.0012 CORE2-SP6 enhancement patch
MV36coreph_150302_001315.03.02.0013 PIC enhancement patch
MV36coreph_150302_001415.03.02.0014 SPQR Broker enhancement patch [2.3 I4]
MV36coreph_150302_001515.03.02.0015 Alarm and Performance NE types fixing patch
MV36coreph_150302_001615.03.02.0016 Flow Point management patch
MV36coreph_150302_001715.03.02.0017 PM agent enhancement patch
MV36coreph_150302_001815.03.02.0018 CORE2-SP6 enhancement patch
MV36coreph_150302_001915.03.02.0019 ODU alarms forwarding fixing patch
MV36coreph_150302_002115.03.02.0021 SPQR Broker enhancement patch [2.2 P17 - 2.3 I7A]
MV36coreph_150302_002215.03.02.0022 QNE fixing patch
MV36coreph_150302_002415.03.02.0024 Flow Point and Performance enhancement patch
MV36coreph_150302_002515.03.02.0025 EMRLOGIN patch
MV36coreph_150302_002815.03.02.0028 Speed up MV36 start up phase
MV36coreph_150302_002915.03.02.0029 RTM, UCH, PM invalid format, Attila fixing and New ProbableCauses patch
MV36coreph_150302_003015.03.02.0030 MV36-Core multipurpose patch
MV36emDAT_110402 11.4.2 MV36 - Element Manager plugin for DAT
MV36emIMT_110502 11.5.2 MV36 - Element Manager plugin for IMT
MV36emPLx_100606 10.6.6 MV36 - Element Manager plugin for PLx
MV36emPMH_110207 11.2.7 MV36 - Element Manager plugin for PMH
MV36emSMA_110502 11.5.2 MV36 - Element Manager plugin for SMA
MV36emSMX_110302 11.3.2 MV36 - Element Manager plugin for SMX


LVM File System Configuration

This system is configured with Logical Volume Manager (LVM) file systems.
Refer to the File System layout section for information on the LVM layout.


JFS File System Configuration

This system is configured with a Journaled File System (referred to
as either JFS or VXFS). Refer to the File System layout section for
information on JFS/VXFS file systems.


Disk layout

LVM disk Device file HW Addr size vol. grp
HP 73.4GST373454LC /dev/dsk/c2t0d0 0/1/1/0.0.0 70007 /dev/vg00
non-LVM disk Device file HW Addr size swap
TEAC DVD-ROM DW-224EV /dev/dsk/c0t0d0 0/0/2/0.0.0.0


File System layout

LVM Device file mount point size fs type
/dev/vg00:
/dev/vg00/lvol1 /stand 1008 hfs
/dev/vg00/lvol2 swap 16384
/dev/vg00/lvol3 / 2000 vxfs
/dev/vg00/lvol4 /home 2000 vxfs
/dev/vg00/lvol5 /opt 9008 vxfs
/dev/vg00/lvol6 /swap 9008 vxfs
/dev/vg00/lvol7 /tmp 4000 vxfs
/dev/vg00/lvol8 /usr 9008 vxfs
/dev/vg00/lvol9 /var 16896 vxfs
/dev/vg00 unallocated 672
Device file mount point size fs type
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0 /SD_CDROM cdfs


Swap configuration

type size priority device/location
dev 16384 1 /dev/vg00/lvol2


Kernel Configuration

The following drivers or parameters are configured into your system's
kernel. After installing HP-UX, use the sam(1m) command to configure
the following items into the kernel:
STRMSGSZ 65535
create_fastlinks 1
dbc_min_pct 10
default_disk_ir 1
dnlc_hash_locks 512
eqmemsize 60
fs_async 1
max_thread_proc 256
maxdsiz 3000000000
maxdsiz_64bit 3000000000
maxfiles 2048
maxfiles_lim 2048
maxssiz 134000000
maxssiz_64bit 134000000
maxswapchunks 4096
maxtsiz 1000000000
maxtsiz_64bit 1000000000
maxuprc 4130
maxusers 256
msgmax 65535
msgmnb 65535
msgmni 8192
msgseg 32767
msgssz 80
msgtql 30000
nfile 16700
ninode 2200
nproc 4900
npty 500
nstrpty 500
semmni 30000
semmns 30000
semmnu 300
semume 3000
shmmax 671000000
timeslice 50
ncsize 11324


System Information

The following parameters were set on the configured target:
hostname: localhos
IP address: 192.168.20.200
subnet mask: 0xffffff00
gateway IP address: 192.168.20.200
time zone: MST7MDT

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

insert the second disk and install HP-UX Mirror Disk.
If you don't want to buy it, you can do manual 'dd' from one disk to the other (once a week/month?).
You can try to define it as a cron job.
I don't know another solution or freeware.
Maybe you can ask the gurus in the hp-ux forum:
http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/familyhome.do?familyId=117

Volkmar

[Andrew Rutter]

hi,

basically all you have is a backup disk so far of VG00.

Is this all you need? all thats on the disk?

without mirrordisk/ux or a hardware raid controller, you are not going to achieve much else.

if you want everything you do on the system copied to the 2nd disk then its not going to happen without something else.

if you dont want to buy the mirrodisk/ux s/ware then you could purchase the hardware raid controller for the rp3440.

Andy

[Antonio Alano]

Hi Andy,

thanks for your quick response.

i have RAID S/W installed in the server
RAID-00 B.11.11.01 PCI RAID; Supptd HW=A5856A
RAID-01 B.11.11.04 RAID SA; Supptd HW=A7143A/A9890A/A9891A

is this the S/W you were talking about? if it is, please guide me on how to use this.

thanks.

kind regards,
antonio

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

then you'll need the hardware:
http://h20141.www2.hp.com/hpparts/Search_Multi_Product.asp?mscssid=HGR1VL4MW2Q38HB479EPHHNQBH5B1K45&SearchCriteria=A5856A

for example.

Volkmar

[Torsten.]

No. The Raid-0x software is the management softwrae for an optional smartarray raid controller card (hardware), but you don't have the card.

You can either purchase such card (e.g. SA 6402) or the mirrordisk/ux software (this enables LVM to do software mirroring).

[Torsten.]

@Volkmar, please do not suggest the RAID4si!

Better to suggest something like the SA 640x:

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06c/A10-51210-332469-336874-332469-367226-348786-348787.html?jumpid=oc_R1002_USENC-001_HP%20Smart%20Array%206402/128%20Controller〈=en&cc=us

[SUDHAKAR_18]

Hope attached document helps!

Regards,
SHR

"Edited to comply with ITRC Guidelines"

[melvyn burnard]

Well you have Bas VxVM installed, and it is version 3.5:
Base-VXVM B.03.50.5 Base VERITAS Volume Manager Bundle 3.5 for HP-UX

As of this version, you can have your boot disk as part of a VxVM dg, as opposed to an LVM vg.
With the Base Vxvm you get mirroring capability for the Boot disk ONLY as part of the product.
So, if you wiush to, you could convert tpo a VxVM boot disk and then mirror it using VxVM

[Antonio Alano]

thanks guys!