Is vxdmp included with 11iV3

[Bruce Owen Lee]

I installed 11i v3 using vxvm. I noticed that it does not display the persistant devices when I run vxdisk list. Does this mean that the new native dmp is not being used. How do I get vxvm to use the the new devices? Do I need to purchase an add-on product from veritas?

[Bruce Owen Lee]

Sorry, I posted this in the wrong area.

[Duncan Edmonstone]

I'm assuming if you did a default install you have VxVM 4.1 installed.

VxVM 4.1 is not aware of the new agile DSFs (/dev/disk/diskXX), but that doesn't mean it isn't using the new MPIO feature in the IO stack. By default 11iv3 even does load balancing/MPIO on legacy device files, so even though VxVM only sees /dev/dsk/cXtYdZ devices, the new MPIO features are used.

If you upgrade to VxVM 5.0, then VxVM becomes aware of the agile DSFs and can be configured to just use those if you wish. Have a look at the following 2 links:

On how 4.1 behaves:
http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-6383/5991-6383.pdf
See chapter 8 on p69

On what 5.0 changes:
http://docs.hp.com/en/5992-4212/5992-4212.pdf

HTH

Duncan

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

vxdump ships with the OS.

If you want full capability and mirroring, you do need an add on product form Veritas. Though HP licenses these tools and re-sells them.

SEP

[Duncan Edmonstone]

SEP,

vxdump = vertitas filesystem dump utility

vxdmp = veritas dynamic multi-pathing


although in this case Bruce was actually talking about the native multi-pathing functions, which is something seperate to vxdmp

HTH

Duncan