Veritas volume manager administrators guide solaris. Depending on your setup, theres a legal way of running veritas volume manager on solaris if you dont mind a powerconsuming, noisy, and heavy hardware dongle dubbing as a fcal disc array. This content is no longer being updated or maintained. Procedure for disk replacement under veritas volume. A maximum path level of 10 symbolic links pointing to each raw device. Diagonally opposite to jayadeva cardiology, bennerghatta road, bangalore. Veritas offers the veritas volume manager vxvm which is either packaged as a standalone addon or part of a larger package such as the veritas online storage manager. If io errors are intermittent rather than persistent, veritas volume manager sets the failingflag on a disk, rather than detaching the disk.
Jun 24, 2008 learn to install, configure, and troubleshoot veritas symantec 5. This entry was posted in aix administration, scripts and tagged aix advance config, how to install veritas volume manager on aix, installing veritas volume manager on aix, veritas volume manager on aix on july 15, 2012 by learnitfromshiva. Such errors can occur due to the temporary removal of a cable, controller faults, a partially faulty lun in a disk array, or a disk with a few bad sectors or tracks. Learn how to integrate, operate, veritas storage foundation in a solaris environment. The a5000 disc enclosure series named photon had a vxvm license attached to it. The veritas volume manager vvm or vxvm is a proprietary logical volume manager from veritas which was part of symantec until january 2016. Rw sd rootmirror03 var02 rootmirror 15523200 200 0 c0t1d0 ena using vxassist attach. Most veritas volume manager vxvm commands excepting daemons, library commands and supporting scripts are linked to the usrsbin directory from the optvrtsbin directory. Dedicated in providing quality education to it professionals sun solaris, ibm aix, redhat, veritas volume manager, veritas cluster services, oracle sql plsql, oracle dba, shell scripting and pearl. Physical objects are direct mappings to physical disks 2. Procedure for disk replacement under veritas volume manager using vxdiskadm utility. I was asked by the customer to use veritas volume manager in aix, instead of native aix volume manager. Veritas file system vxfs uses volume sets to manage multivolume file systems and the smarttier feature. Aix logical volume manager and veritas volume manager in the world of unix storage management, there are two primary leaders.
Vxvm allows a system administrator to configure various volume layouts for the volume thus allowing high redundancy and high performance. 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. I had two disk three disks failing two of them in a volume tdisk4 and the third one was part of another volume named tdisk5 the thing is that i successfully replaced the three disks and now the systems saw them and i can manage them but when i try to put the new discovered luns under vxvm control it failed. Administering cluster functionality cvm administering sites and remote mirrors. Veritas volume replicator vvr or the veritas volume manager vxvm documentation sets. It is also supported on aix, linux, solaris, opensolaris, sinixreliant unix, unixware and sco openserver. The veritas volume manager storage foundation administration course provides students with the essential information and skills to manage storage using veritas volume manager vxvm software. Veritas file system and veritas volume manager technologies, and delivers a comprehensive solution for. Disclaimer the information contained in this publication is subject to change without notice. How to install veritas volume manager on aix tech recepies. Veritas global cluster manager veritas global cluster manager is a complete webbased cluster management solution that allows a single consolidated view of your veritas cluster server environment.
Manage your logical volumes with veritas volume manager vxvm v5 for aix 5. Jun 04, 2011 veritas volume manager is a storage management application by symantec, which allows you to manage physical disks as logical devices called volumes. Na na discovered as a part of vmware discovery through. Aix logical volume manager and veritas volume manager compares. Vcs veritas cluster server vm volume manager vom veritas operations manager. In this article, use the filesystem management and tools available to you on aix to make your transition easier. Students are introduced to the installation, initialization, and configuration of vxvm and to general performance issues. Veritas file system vxfs volume managers aix hpux freebsd linux solaris tru64 supported features operating system processor aix aix 7. Forcibly restarting a disabled volume clearing the failing flag on a disk reattaching failed disks failures on raid5 volumes recovering from an incomplete disk group move recovery from failure of a dco volume about recovery from hardware failure symantecs veritas volume manager vxvm protects systems from disk and. Aix logical volume manager and veritas volume manager.
The webbased gui allows administrators to view and manage multiple, discrete and geographically dispersed cluster server clusters. Do you see any specific reason why vxvm should be used instead of aix native lvm. Aix logical volume manager and veritas volume manager 3. With online defragmentation and resize support turned on via license, it is known as onlinejfs. Veritas volume manager administrators guide thesoftwaredescribedinthisbookisfurnishedunderalicenseagreementandmaybeused only in accordance with the terms of the. Though the same can be done from command line which is preferable as well. Figure 122 veritas volume manager raid5 array stripe 1 stripe 2.
The lvm is built into the base operating system and is provided as part of the base aix installation. Veritas volume manager troubleshooting guide aix 5. Veritas volume manager is a storage management application by symantec, which allows you to manage physical disks as logical devices called volumes. Veritas software corporation makes no warranty of any kind with regard to this manual, including, but not limited to. Through an oem agreement, vxfs is used as the primary filesystem of the hpux operating system. Herein i am trying to present disk replacement under vxvm using vxdiskadm utility. This feature allows vxfs to make best use of the different performance and availability characteristics of the underlying volumes. Veritas volume manager 2 covers vxassist command for volume management. Upgrade aix operating systems for major releases 63 upgrade aix operating systems for. The veritas volume manager provides many features, some of which are not available with lvm or mirrordiskux. Raid level lvm vxvm raid 5 no yes mirrored read policy in the case of mirrored reads, the volume management program is given great flexibility because there are supposed to be multiple copies of data. Manage your logical volumes with veritas volume manager vxvm.
The setup an oracle database supporting an application called abc, and given the following. Manage your logical volumes with veritas volume manager. Veritas works with 86 percent of fortune 500 companies today, improving data availability and revealing insights to. What does ibm offer as an alternative to either veritas or solaris volume manager svm.
A modified version is bundled with hpux as its builtin volume manager. When you want to inspect a large setup or sometimes even a small one. Beginners lesson veritas volume manager for solaris. Assuming that we need to create filesystems intended for oracle and. Mar 19, 20 vxvmveritas volume manager training 2 of 10in this post, we will see how to scan the disks and bringing the disks in to veritas volume manager control and.
Vxvm uses two types of objects to perform the storage management 1. Chapter 2 installing powerpath on veritas volume manager install with veritas volume manager on new hosts 30 convert to powerpath hdiskpower devices from dmp 30 add a new path to a storage system controlled by powerpath and vxvm 30 chapter 3 configuring a powerpath boot device on aix. Let us see how we can create a basic volume and a file system with veritas volume manager. If you are using the bourne or korn shell sh or ksh, use the commands. Overview of vradvisor veritas volume replicator advisor vradvisor is a planning tool that helps you determine an optimum veritas volume replicator vvr configuration. Veritas volume manager vxvm is a popular and powerful, enterpriseclass storage management tool. It offers volume management and multipath io functionalities when. Emc host connectivity guide for ibm aix pn 300000608 rev 56. Symantecs veritas volume manager vxvm protects systems from disk and other hardware failures and helps you to recover from such events. The article includes a brief explanation of vxvm basic concepts, troubleshooting, and easy fixes for a few sundry problems.
I will present the same in my coming post with practical example. Volume sets sort home veritas services and operations. See other veritas volume manager documentation for additional details about. Veritas volume manager administrators guide hpux 11i v3. The subdisks in a given column can be derived from different physical disks. Both companies offer products that help unix system administrators manage storage in very flexible methods in comparison to older unix implementations. Volume manager on aix, patch detail sort home veritas. Sd sd sd sd sd sd sd sd sd subdisk vxvm allows each column of a raid5 plex to consist of a different number of subdisks. Oracle 9i rac deployment on aix using veritas storage. Veritas volume manager software is an advanced, systemlevel disk and storage array solution that alleviates downtime during system maintenance by enabling easy, online disk administration and configuration. Aix logical volume manager is unable to use a disk. Vxvmveritas volume manager training 2 of 10in this post, we will see how to scan the disks and bringing the disks in to veritas volume manager control and. Files with names containing nonascii characters as long as the.