vgimport warning message

[j773303]

While /usr/sbin/vgimport -m /usr/local/sbin/vg01.map -v /dev/vg01 /dev/dsk/c7t0d0 /dev/dsk/c8t0d0 /dev/dsk/c7t0d1 /dev/dsk/c8t0d1 , below are the warning message, does anyone knows what's happend? I chekced the vg01 and logical file sytem all are fine.

Beginning the import process on Volume Group "/dev/vg01".
vgimport: Warning: Volume Group belongs to different CPU ID.
Can not determine if Volume Group is in use on another system.
Continuing.
vgimport: Warning: Volume Group contains "2" PVs, "4" specified.
Continuing.
Logical volume "/dev/vg01/lvol11" has been successfully created
with lv number 1.
Logical volume "/dev/vg01/lvol12" has been successfully created
with lv number 2.
Logical volume "/dev/vg01/lvol13" has been successfully created
with lv number 3.
Logical volume "/dev/vg01/lvol14" has been successfully created
with lv number 4.
Volume group "/dev/vg01" has been successfully created.
Warning: A backup of this volume group may not exist on this machine.
Please remember to take a backup using the vgcfgbackup command after
activating the volume group.
Activated volume group
Volume group "/dev/vg01" has been successfully changed.

[Sanjiv Sharma_1]

Hi,

Are there shared disks?
Check that they doesn't belong to another volume group in this system or the other system.

hth.

[Mark Grant]

You can ignore these errors.

It always says the first warning when it is importing disks from another system. It is telling the truth! because the disks are from another machine, it can't be sure they are not in another volume group. However, you can be sure :)

The second one is just being stupid. It is telling you that you have specified four devices on the command line but there are only two disks. It looks like two of your device files are alternate paths to the same disks so it's correct.

You final warning is true too, it doesn't do a vgcfgbackup but you can do that yourself if you want

[Karthik S S · Accepted solution]

1. Deactivate the VG on the system from where you exported.

2. If the VG contains alternate links to the PVs. Dont specify them with the vgimport command. (it takes it automatically). Even if you specify it just throws an error which you can ignore.

From the o/p that u have given I think the VG has successfully been imported on the other system. You can ignore the error messages.

-Karthik S S

[Ryan McKlveen]

these are normal messages that can safely be ignored. when bringing disks from one machine to another via san - we see these all the time. the header on the disk indicate that it was from one system, and simply just giving you a warning on the new system.