VGRA for the disk is too big for the specified parameters.

[sysad_boy]

I am unable to execute vgcreate because of this error.

> vgcreate /dev/vg04 /dev/dsk/c3t4d0
Increased the number of physical extents per physical volume to 17501.
vgcreate: Volume group "/dev/vg04" could not be created:
VGRA for the disk is too big for the specified parameters. Increase the
extent size or decrease max_PVs/max_LVs and try again.

what is the syntax and vgcreate option to increase the number of physical extents per physical volume to 17501? Does doing so will solve my problem?


TIA

[Roopesh Francis_1]

check this thread.
http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=968206

[Ganesan R]

Hi Sysad boy,

Increasing the PE size will solve your problem. But it is always better to change the following values from defaults when you create new VG.

vgcreate -e -s -p

[R.K. #]

Hi Sysad,

Try using the below option with a value of say 32 or 64

-s pe_size

Sets the number of megabytes in each physical extent, where pe_size is expressed in units of megabytes (MB) in the range 1 to 256. pe_size must be equal to a power of 2 (1, 2, 4, 8, etc.).

NOTE: The default value for pe_size is 4 (four megabytes).

# vgcreate -s 32 vg_name pv_path

Regds,
R.K.

[Sharma Sanjeev]

Hi

vgcreate -e -s -p disk vgname

-e =
-s =
-p =

do man vgcreate

Regards
Sanjeev