Manage your logical volumes with veritas volume manager vxvm. Hi, im working on large application and currently im using veritas volume manager as a storage management solution. Not able to turnoff fencing in solaris 10 cluster oracle. I have added six, 1 gb disks other than two, 16 gb disks for root mirroring to my vmware virtual machine for future. There are several volume manager objects that must be understood before you can use the volume manager to perform disk management tasks. Vxvm allows a system administrator to configure various volume layouts for the volume thus allowing high redundancy and high performance. Veritas software products, such as veritas volume manager vxvm and.
The first page was filled with solaris volume manager svm commands to mirror two disks, create file systems, and mount them. Learn how to integrate, operate, veritas storage foundation in a solaris environment. Hello, i was assigned some solaris machines and need to patch them to n1, where n is the latest os realease, which means, upgrade till one version before the latest one. To start with prepare a solaris 10 virtual machine with sufficient number of disks atleast 4 to 6, 1 gb disks and two 16 gb disks for root mirroring. Vxvm vxprint command syntax with examples unixarena. How to use vxvm and solaris live upgrade to install patches. Solaris installing perl modules on solaris 10 sanspire.
So no need to use pkgadd commands unless until there is an issue with the installer. Home solaris 1011 installing sudo in solaris 10 and dependencies. Product veritas volume managervxvm storage foundation vxprint command will displays the volumes,plexs and sub disks record information. When you want extra modules on your system, the modules need to be compiled on the system and the process isnt. Please let me know from which site i will get veritas software.
Installing sudo in solaris 10 and dependencies unknown. Vxvm uses two types of objects to perform the storage management 1. Let us see how we can create a basic volume and a file system with veritas volume manager. Note you can also install this onto vmware workstation running solaris 10, so long as you are running a 64bit processor. Aug 10, 2011 this is a continuation post for our previous post beginners lesson veritas volume manager for solaris learning vxvm administration will be much easier by understanding below three things 1. I have used veritas in the past and do not know much about solaris 10.
Aug 24, 2012 this is video showing how to install veritas volume manager vxvm 4. Is there a veritas volume manager command that returns the version that is currently installed. I just installed solaris 10 on a test sparc box i have so was looking for a way to manage the disks better than disksuite which is the only thing i was familiar with on suns. Basic vxvm commands disk operations action command line initialize a disk vxdisksetup i device list disks owned by local and remote hosts vxdisk o alldgs list list disk header vxdisk. Do not use the cldevicegroup command to register the root disk group as a device group. Sun cluster aka oracle solaris cluster on hanskarri.
The article includes a brief explanation of vxvm basic concepts, troubleshooting, and easy fixes for a few sundry problems. You need to tell what volume management and file system your os use as there is at least two remaining alternatives. Using vxassist with its v flag will display the actual vxvm commands used during volume construction. Veritas volume manager administrators guide thesoftwaredescribedinthisbookisfurnishedunderalicenseagreementandmaybeused only in. Veritas volume manager administrators guide solaris. The intention of making the cluster will be configuring high availability local zone aka failover local zones. Hello all, i will be upgrading a solaris 10 1106 u3 server to 09 10 u9. Resizing the volumes are very common now and this has to done on fly without any downtime.
Go to website and signup free to download the symantec storage foundation basic 6. Veritas volume manager vxvm software is widely used for logical. This chapter excerpt on oracle vm server for sparc download pdf is taken from the book oracle solaris 10 system virtualization essentials. Solaris exampleunless the device is accessible via the os device handle, vxvm will not be in a position to reattach the disk. Converting solaris vm volumes to vxvm fails to complete. It offers volume management and multipath io functionalities when. Install any vxvm patches to support oracle solaris cluster software. If disks are visible with format command but not visible with vxdisk list command, run below command to scan the. Vxvm cheat sheet these are the commonly used commands used for semantecs veritas volume manager. Just make sure that you either use the latest version of solaris or run the install precheck first to check patch requirements. The following files are already installed on the system and are being used by another package. I just installed solaris 10 on a test sparc box i have so was looking for a way to manage the disks better than disksuite.
Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 10 host. How to migrate from vxvm to solaris volume manager 807557 jul 10, 2008 10. I am aware of all the patching necessary and the live upgrade procedure for this. Before i could achieve competence in all the good it had to offer such as dtrace, zfs, zones etc, i drifted into. Solaris installation automated installer ai is the new network based multiclient provisioning system on oracle solaris 11.
Veritas volume manager is a storage management application by symantec, which allows you to manage physical disks as logical devices called volumes. No such device error for vxvm volume on solaris cluster 3. Before i could achieve competence in all the good it had to offer such as dtrace, zfs, zones etc, i drifted into storage administration. Oracle solaris 11 administration command cheat sheet. Managing the sun os became easier with solaris 10 compared to its predecessors. Veritas volume manager vxvm online resizing of volumes. Hi all, i have created a vmware appliance with solaris 10 and veritas voulme manager 5. It is available for windows, aix, solaris, linux, and hpux. This post describe about installation of vxvm on solaris node and initialization. Installing and configuring vxvm software oracle solaris cluster.
Volume manager on solaris, patch detail sort veritas. A modified version is bundled with hpux as its builtin volume manager. Veritas volume manager administrators guide thesoftwaredescribedinthisbookisfurnishedunderalicenseagreementandmaybeused only in accordance with the terms of the. This can be used for practicing various volume manager commands for budding system administrators download size is 840mb splitted across three files. We found by and large that solaris 10 outperformed vxvm and the veritas file system, both in terms of real performance and usability.
This oracle solaris cluster series articles will cover the build of a twonode cluster running solaris cluster 4. Chapter 5 installing and configuring veritas volume manager sun. Vxvm commands vxdg adddisk and vxdg rmdisk takes long time approximately 90 seconds and ios hang during the command execution. If you want to initialize this device for vxvm use, please clear svm metadata by running metastat and metaclear commands.
The compilation is most accurate and have been compiled from live server use. What is the command to see the veritas volume manager 3. Solarisvxvmrecover failed disk when vxreattach fails posted on january 16, 2016 by sandeep shenoy in the event that the paths to a given device suffer a transient. Comparison of solaris volume manager software and veritas. If you want to increase the size of the root partition, break and restart with m option. This training provides instruction on operational management procedures for veritas volume manager vxvm and you will learn how to install and configure veritas volume manager and how to manage disks, disk groups, and volumes by using from the command line.
Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 11 host. Let us see how you can install vxvm in a solaris 10 virtual machine. Run the optvrtsinstallinstallsf configure command when you are ready to. Oracle solaris operating system oracle solaris cluster software8 maximum number of nodes volume manager software16 multipath driver16 oracle solaris 95, 1018, 19, 21 3. Vm solaris 10 or physical machine with solaris 10, vxvm 5. Unix command to find the version of sfrac on solaris 10. Hello all, i try to allocate the same lun to two server or more in the future i use solaris 10, vxvm vxfs for data and solaris zones and emc dmx4, i try to migrate solaris zones between. How to install veritas volume manager vxvm 4 1 install in. Solaris 10 veritas volume manager solutions experts exchange. This is video showing how to install veritas volume manager vxvm 4. Thats reason is hastorageplus version 9 has introduced a new feature which is the monitoring.
This training provides instruction on operational management procedures. The veritas volume manager vvm or vxvm is a proprietary logical volume manager from veritas which was part of symantec until january 2016. Analysis of the oracle solaris configuration, including networking, storage, and oracle solaris operating system features in use. Introducing veritas foundation suite for aix ibm redbooks. Installing sudo in solaris 10 and dependencies unix addiction. Configuring, implementing logical domains in oracle solaris 10. Installing sudo in solaris 10 and dependencies unix. Product veritas volume manager vxvm storage foundation vxprint command will displays the volumes,plexs and sub disks record information. The vxvm commands on a vvr diskgroup doesnt complete until all the outstanding ios in that diskgroup are drained completely. But on the company i work i was required to create a file system on a solaris system. This is a continuation post for our previous post beginners lesson veritas volume manager for solaris learning vxvm administration will be much easier by. It is now under a free licence, so you can install onto solaris. Solaris 10 comes with preinstalled perl with a fixed set of perl modules. How veritas volume manager treats operating system native disks into veritas volumes 2.
Jun 24, 2008 learn to install, configure, and troubleshoot veritas symantec 5. Beginners lesson veritas volume manager for solaris. Hello all, i try to allocate the same lun to two server or more in the future i use solaris 10, vxvm vxfs for data and solaris zones and emc dmx4, i try to migrate solaris zones between servers in case of problem. Physical objects are direct mappings to physical disks 2. If you want to initialize this device for vxvm use, please clear svm metadata by running metastat and metaclear. Apr 02, 2017 product veritas volume managervxvm storage foundation vxprint command will displays the volumes,plexs and sub disks record information. Aug 05, 2015 solaris installation automated installer ai is the new network based multiclient provisioning system on oracle solaris 11. How to install veritas volume manager vxvm 4 1 install. Ditto with linux redhetsuse and veritas volume manager vxvm and veritas cluster server vcs. Installation of veritas volume manager vxvm on linux. You can then use the fsck command and mount the partition while. For this example, you must be booted from at least the solaris 10 10 08 os media. We have done the same setup on veritas cluster quite long time back.
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