Linux AS 3 Update 5, LVM ver 1.

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All,

Aim:

Moving a volume group from machine A to a Service Guard cluster B and C where some packages are already running.

Just to let you know i am NOT moving the machine in to the cluster only moving the volume group where i have database files.

Once i can see the Volume group i am planning to create a package using this volume group where the failover can happen between machine B and C.

Problem:

Machine A (from i am moving the volume group)

[root@a root]# ll /dev/vg*/group
crw-r----- 1 root disk 109, 0 Aug 31 14:09 /dev/vg00/group
crw-r----- 1 root disk 109, 2 Sep 1 15:16 /dev/vg_03/group
crw-r----- 1 root disk 109, 1 Aug 31 14:09 /dev/vg_02/group
[root@a root]#

Machine B and C (to the volume group is moving)

[root@b root]# ll /dev/vg*/group
crw-r----- 1 root disk 109, 0 Aug 31 14:09 /dev/vg00/group
crw-r----- 1 root disk 109, 2 Sep 1 15:16 /dev/vg_04/group
crw-r----- 1 root disk 109, 1 Aug 31 14:09 /dev/vg_02/group
[root@b root]#

I am moving the vg vg_03 to B and C using the commands

a: vgchange -an vg_03
a: vgexport vg_03

b: vgimport vg_03 /dev/sdd

Does this work properly.

Do this import will create a new group file with minor number 3 ?


In HP UX we can create the device files whatever we needed and import the VG. But in the case of AS 3 i have seen that sometimes the import is creating the existing device files ie their will be 2 volume groups with same minor numbers.

Did any of you have done this before ?

TX