mirroring a rx4640

[F Verschuren]

Hi I want to know how to procede whit a mirror (non Veritas)
[nlxanc03:/]# strings /etc/lvmtab
/dev/vg00
/dev/dsk/c2t1d0s2
[nlxanc03:/]#
[nlxanc03:/]# ioscan -funC disk
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
============================================================================
disk 0 0/0/3/0.0.0.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE TEAC DV-28E-N
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0
disk 1 0/1/1/0.0.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP 73.4GST373454LC
/dev/dsk/c2t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0
disk 2 0/1/1/0.1.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP 73.4GST373454LC
/dev/dsk/c2t1d0 /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0
/dev/dsk/c2t1d0s1 /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0s1
/dev/dsk/c2t1d0s2 /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0s2
/dev/dsk/c2t1d0s3 /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0s3
[nlxanc03:/]# cat /etc/fstab
# System /etc/fstab file. Static information about the file systems
# See fstab(4) and sam(1M) for further details on configuring devices.
/dev/vg00/lvol3 / vxfs delaylog 0 1
/dev/vg00/lvol1 /stand vxfs tranflush 0 1
/dev/vg00/lvol4 /tmp vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol5 /home vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol6 /opt vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol7 /usr vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol8 /var vxfs delaylog 0 2
[nlxanc03:/]#

I created the extra disks whith the idisk, but what now, just normal mirorring ore do I must user somting els (if posble whitout the veritas volume manager)

[Pete Randall]

http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechSingleTipDetailPage_IDX/1,2366,5343,00.html


Pete

[F Verschuren]

In the only doc that I fount was the next action:
vxdctl enable but when i do that I am getting the folowing error:

vxvm:vxconfigd: ERROR: enable failed: Volboot file not loaded
transactions are disabled.
vxvm:vxdctl: ERROR: enable failed: Volboot file not loaded

[Kent Ostby]

Take a look here:

http://docs.hp.com/en/5187-1369/ch07s08.html

[melvyn burnard · Accepted solution]

see pages 532-534 of http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90912/B2355-90912.pdf

[F Verschuren]

vxassist -b make volmir 5g layout=mirror
vxvm:vxassist: ERROR: IPC failure: Configuration daemon is not accessible
[nlxanc01:/etc/vx/bin]#

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hoi Freek,

Title: How to mirror vg00 using LVM on IA with 11.23
Document ID: KBRC00014526

http://www5.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000079976697

Title: How to Mirror VxVM rootdg on Itanium
Document ID: IA64KBRC00012173

http://www5.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000079997917

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[F Verschuren]

It looks like melvyn has fount the page where I was lokking For, I din't try jet but it looks goot...

[F Verschuren]

tanks, the solution was given by melvyn burnard .

tanks all for you help, the systems are now savely mirrored.