veritas volume manager on HPUX

[ashish nanjiani]

Does anybody have a direct expereince of migrating from lvm to vxvm on HPUX. We are planning to move in that direction and any kind of know issues(other than root encapsulation) like performance, configuration, panics, etc will ne highly appreciated.

ps: i have gone through the official document on the HP web site.

[Ed Sampson]

Is this on a 11.00 or 11i system? It makes a difference, as Veritas Volume manager is packaged with some versions of the 11i OE. In either case, HP does not currently support the encapsulation of the root drives. Veritas recommended for us to set up a small drive on the disk array for the rootdg drive, but we chose the use standard 35g volumes, with the anticipation of being able to encapsulate the root drives in the future.

[Wodisch]

Hi,

AFAIK you still cannot boot from VxVM, that should be added with 11.20 or so...
Until then you'll need both of them, VxVM and LVM.

Regards,
Wodisch

[Looi Kok Seong]

Hi, our company also plan to use VVM for all HP-UX 11.0 Servers. We asked Veritas to do Proof of Concept before we can purchase. Unfortunately, the first setup, our server get panic and rebooted. They said because of patches and you hv to make sure all the patches are correct.
Other than that, everything are okay and working fine.
Thanks

[Duncan Edmonstone]

A little OT I know, but I was talking to a guy from Veritas the other week, and I asked about root disk encapsulation... basically I was concerened that HP-UX might end up with the mess you get on Solaris when using root disk encapsulation.

He told me that the integration with HP-UX boot disks would be much tighter and more transparent than in Solaris, as HP had agreed to share source code with Veritas, whereas Sun never have.

Cheers

Duncan