Configure disk to use for veritas volume manager (VxVM)
Posted by piyut on Sunday, September 16, 2007
1. Detect new disk -> dfsadm, cfgadm -c configure control_number
2. Labeling disk -> format, choose disk number, label
3. Configure disks
# vxdisksetup -i disk_name
or using vxdiskadm -> choose 1. Add or initialize one or more disks
4. make diskgroup
# vxdg init dg_name disk_name=device_name
* vxdg init backupdg backupdg01=Disk_24
5. make volume
# vxassist -g backupdg maxsize
2096883712
# vxassist -g backupdg make backuplv 2096883712
*size=output from vxassist -g dg_name maxsize
6. Start volume
# vxvol -g backupdg startall
7. Make Filesystem
# mkfs -F vxfs /dev/vx/rdsk/backupdg/backuplv
8. Mounting Filesystem
# mkdir /backup
# mount -F vxfs /dev/vx/dsk/backupdg/backuplv /backup
9. Edit /etc/vfstab
pramath said
Hi!plase send me steps for solaris VXVM
piyut said
hi,
what steps do you want? you can see the steps for configure disk to use in VxVM.
kalyan said
how to configure root mirroring using vxfs and encapsultion?
piyut said
hi kaylan,
I have no experienced with mirroring root disk using veritas. You can check for this link:http://www.technicalarticles.org/index.php/Mirroring_Your_Root_Disk_Using_Veritas_Storage_Foundation_Basic
Koteswara Rao CH said
NICE doccument