Installation test - EMC - setboot

[Tom Dawson]

I have a couple D330s attached to an EMC array. We have a few unused 4Gb slices on the EMC array. This weekend I hope to do a test install of HP-UX 11.11 on one of the servers using some of the unused slices. When I'm finished with this test install, I'd like to restore the server to its' old configuration on the EMC array.

Is it simply a matter of executing:

setboot -p 8/0.3.2 -b on

on the test server where 8/0.3.2 was the
Boot Disk on the server before my test?
And then, of course, reboot.

I have all the EMC slices documented so I know which slices are used by each server and which ones are currently unused. And I'll have both a make_recovery and fbackup backup of each server. Is there something else I'll need to restore the test server to its' previous state?

TIA,
Tom

[melvyn burnard · Accepted solution]

provided you do not change or destroy :-] the origional discs, then yes, setboot can be used. We use it all th etime to enable us to boot a few servers from various discs/OS combinations

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Tom:

This should work. Remember that if you want to see your non-vg00 disk after the installation of 11.x, you will need to 'vgimport' them.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Deshpande Prashant]

Hi
As long as your using different disks (unused) for your test, you should be ok.

Thanks.
Prashant.

[Tom Dawson]

Thanks to all! It's reassuring to know that I'm on the right track.