VGRA issue with 11i....

[Chris Magargee_2]

Hello!

I have read through the other posts regarding this issue, but I'm looking for any additional insight before I open a problem ticket.

I have 12 identical rp3410's with 3 internal 36GB Disk Drives and two external 146GB Disk Drives in a DS2300 Array.

I have built 11 of these with the same Golden Image from my Ignite Server, but #12 will not build the VG on the external 146GB Disk Drives.

It gives the following error:

Increased the number of physical extents per physical volume to 35003.
vgcreate: Volume group "/dev/appsvg00" 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.

The other 11 built this VG on that same type of drives with no problem. I suspect I have a HW issue of some sort with the Array and/or the PCI disk controller, but I do not have any fault conditions and when the server is up and running on the root VG I do not receive any HW error messages from the drives. It actually sees them and I can run pvcreate of them.

The Golden Image build uses the defaults for vgcreate. I have tried to run vgcreate by hand making changes to Max PV's, LV's, PE's, and PE size, same problem.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks!
Chris

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Chris,

VGRA is written into one extent in the VG. So, it's size is limited to the size of one extent. Either you have to reduce the max_PV value or increase pe_size.

Try with 32MB PE Size and see if it works. If not keep trying by doubling it until it works.

-Sri