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Configure disk to use for veritas volume manager (VxVM) Sunday, September 16, 2007

Posted by piyut in Solaris.
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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

Comments»

1. pramath - Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Hi!plase send me steps for solaris VXVM

2. piyut - Friday, December 7, 2007

hi,

what steps do you want? you can see the steps for configure disk to use in VxVM.

3. kalyan - Monday, February 18, 2008

how to configure root mirroring using vxfs and encapsultion?

4. piyut - Tuesday, February 19, 2008

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