HOW to know the PVID and VGID of disk

[HP UNIX Professionals]

Hi Experts,

I need to know the PVID and VGID of disk in vg00 volume goupu, Anybody know how to to view and what is the command i have to run for that

OS - HPUNIX 11iv3

Thanks & Regards,

VINAY

[Torsten.]

You can do a *preview* vgexport to get the VGID, e.g.

# vgexport -v -p -s -m /tmp/vg00.map vg00





Why you need this?

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Vinay:

See my last post in this thread for a "how-to":

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1181590

Regards!

...JRF...

[HP UNIX Professionals]

Hi JRF,

Your great...The link that u give is very usefull to me

Thanks

vinay

[Doug O'Leary]

Hey;

Not sure why you'd need to do that, but here are two functions I use in a script to verify that pvlinked disks are part of the vg to which they're suppposed to be assigned:

disp_vgids()
{
strings -t d /etc/lvmtab | grep /dev | grep -v /dev/dsk | \
sort -k 2 | while read offset vg
do
xd -An -j$(($offset+1024)) -N8 -tuL /etc/lvmtab | read v1 v2
printf "%-15s %x%x\n" ${vg##*/} ${v1} ${v2}
done
}

id_vgid()
{ pv=$1

xd -An -j8200 -N16 -tx ${pv} 2>/dev/null | awk '{printf("%s%s", $3, $4)}'
}


disp_vgids is simply run; it'll display the vgids for all vgs in /etc/lvmtab.

id_vgid takes, as an argument, a CTD device:

id_vgid /dev/dsk/c3t6d0

for instance.

Hope that helps.

Doug

[Bill Hassell]

This requirement has come up several times for me but remembering all the dd and xd options was a pain so I wrote a script to do it. Just run it like this:

# showLVMinfo c1t6d0 c4t0d0 c4t2d0

Local CPU ID = 1653309383, hex value=0x628b7fc7

/dev/rdsk/c1t6d0:
CPUID=0x628b7fc7 (1653309383), VGID 0x420a6ffb, PVID 0x420a6ffb

/dev/rdsk/c4t0d0:
CPUID=0x628b7fc7 (1653309383), VGID 0x48af267d, PVID 0x48af2579

/dev/rdsk/c4t2d0:
CPUID=0x628b7fc7 (1653309383), VGID 0x48af267d, PVID 0x48af257c


In this example, the last 2 disks belong to the same VG (VGID the same).