Veritas volume manager administrators guide solaris 5. It can also help administrators centrally manage diverse data center environments. Veritas cluster server agents for veritas volume replicator fixed issues veritas enterprise administrator fixed issues veritas volume manager fixed issues table 11 describes fixed issues in the veritas volume manager 5. If you are installing oracle rac, create shared vxvm disk groups by using the cluster feature of vxvm. Array support libraries and array policy modules for veritas volume manager. Veritas volume manager mirror a disk volume i have a machine 5. Administrators guide or in the vxdmpadm1m manual page. Vxvm uses subdisks to build virtual objects called plexes.
Storage foundation and high availability solutions read this. Solaris sparc 9 solaris sparc 10 yes yes solaris sparc 11 yes na windows 2008. You can use it to monitor, visualize, and manage storage and cluster resources, and generate reports about these components in the management server domain. Beginners lesson veritas volume manager for solaris. The steps are basically identical for the other releases. Diff between veritas voume manager and solaris volume manager. For sun cluster to maintain the vxvm namespace, you must register any vxvm disk group or volume changes as sun cluster device group configuration changes. Veritas infoscale operations manager gives you a single, centralized management console for the infoscale products. Solaris sparc 9 solaris sparc 10 yes yes solaris sparc 11 yes na windows 2008 windows 2008 r2. Ensure the cluster is running with errors before performing the restore procedure. Note 2 the extended command descriptor block cdb for scsi read capacity which is used to get the disk capacity on disks greater than 2tb is not supported in releases prior to solaris 10. 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. If you did not create root disk groups, ensure that you have rebooted each node on which you installed vxvm, as instructed in step 12 of how to install veritas volume manager software. 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.
Veritas volume manager administrators guide thesoftwaredescribedinthisbookisfurnishedunderalicenseagreementandmaybeused only in accordance with the terms of the. Hi all, trying to find the version of sfrac installed on the server and the mp level installed. It is available for windows, aix, solaris, linux, and hpux. Veritas storage foundation installation guide thesoftwaredescribedinthisbookisfurnishedunderalicenseagreementandmaybeused only in accordance with the terms of the. Veritas volume manager administrators guide solaris. How to resize mirror volume in veritas volume manager 3.
See about vcs in a oracle vm server for sparc environment. The vxdisk px list cli does not support some basic vxvm attributes, nor does it allow a user to specify multiple attributes in a specific sequence. Vxvm has advanced features like snapshots, site mirroring, tagging etc while solaris volume manager has limited features. Hi all, i need info on veritas volume manager with solaris 8. Symantec, the symantec logo, veritas storage foundation, and veritas are trademarks or. Symantec, the symantec logo, veritas, veritas storage foundation, commandcentral.
This allows a system administrator to start, stop and monitor an application within the confines of a local zone, and failover zones between systems in a cluster. 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. See the veritas cluster server bundled agents reference guide and the veritas. How to restore an encapsulated root file system veritas volume manager use this procedure to restore an encapsulated root file system to a node. With such intelligent device types, the dmp extended attribute may still require a manual refresh using the vxvm vxdisk scandisks cli command. Become superuser on the node that will own the disk group. Installation and upgrade checklist report for vcs 6. Have available your vxvm installation documentation.
Veritas volume manager troubleshooting guide solaris 5. The following patches are required for solaris sparc. It offers volume management and multipath io functionalities when used with veritas dynamic multipathing feature. For clustered nodes in a highly available environment, install cluster server vcs in the control domain. Resizing a veritas volume manager volume exported as a slice or full disk does not dynamically reflect the new size of the volume in the guest known issues guestbased known issues. Mar 14, 2008 how to resize mirror volume in veritas volume manager 3. Solaris sparc 10 u9, u10, u11 solaris sparc 11 u1, u2. This document provides release information for veritas volume replicator on solaris and contains information supplemental to the veritas storage foundation release notes. How to install veritas volume manager software sun. See the veritas cluster server bundled agents reference guide and the veritas cluster server installation guide for information about the new sanvolume agent and how to use vcs with storage foundation volume server. Volume manager administrators guide and the vxsnap1m manual page. Veritas storage foundation administrators guide thesoftwaredescribedinthisbookisfurnishedunderalicenseagreementandmaybeused only in accordance with the terms of. Chapter 5 installing and configuring veritas volume manager. Become superuser on a cluster node that you intend to install with vxvm.
Vxvm uses two types of objects to perform the storage management. Confirm that the system is booted from an alternate disk to the disk to be replaced. Veritas volume manager troubleshooting guide solaris. Observe guidelines and instructions in how to create a vxvm shareddisk group for the oracle rac database in sun cluster data service for oracle rac guide for solaris os and in the veritas volume manager administrators reference guide. The display layout was not presented in a readable or. I downloaded and installed veritas storage foundation 5. Vxvm will use efi layout to support cds functionality for disks of greater than 1tb, however on solaris 10 sparc only, a problem is seen that the disk capacity will be truncated to 2tb if the size. Premium service offerings that include account management services for information about symantecs support offerings, you can visit our web site at the following url. Veritas volume manager administration considerations. The 1touch server must be a dedicated solaris machine running the jumpstart server environment. The following article attempts to explain the process required to replace an encapsulated bootdisk boot device controled by the solaris cfgadm leadville stack with veritas volume manager vxvm on a solaris host. See cluster volume manager in the control domain for providing high availability. How to install veritas volume manager software and encapsulate the root disk.
The server contains already a lot of luns which are available and seen by powerpath and veritas without a problem. Veritasstoragefoundation and high availability solutions. Product guides are available on the media in pdf format. Installing and configuring veritas volume manager sparc. Veritas volume manager coexistence with oracle automatic storage. See about cluster server configuration models in an oracle vm server for sparc environment. The storage foundation thin reclamation feature is not supported on the solaris x64 operating environment. Solaris volume manager and ufs filesystems can not be shrinked while veritas volumes and filesystems can. See planning volume management for planning guidelines. Be sure the cluster is running problemfree before performing the restore procedure. Veritas software corporation makes no warranty of any kind with. A plex consists of one or more subdisks located on one or more physical disks. Disclaimer the information contained in this publication is subject to change without notice. Appendix c migrating from solaris volume manager to vxvm.
If you use veritas volume manager, you must install the enterprise license for the useclonedev snapshot feature, which is not enabled in the standard license. 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. Volume manager on solaris, patch detail sort home veritas. Install and configure your local and multihost disks for veritas volume manager vxvm by using the procedures in this chapter, along with the planning information in planning volume management. Vxvm has far more recovery features in event of disk loss over solaris volume manager. Oracle solaris operating system15 oracle solaris cluster software8 maximum number of nodes volume manager software6,9 multipath driver9 host adapters san switches 4 oracle solaris svm veritas vxvm 4. Solaris administration level 1 pragathi technologies. A modified version is bundled with hpux as its builtin volume manager. Availablememory,diskspace,andnicinformation operatingsystem versionandpatchlevel networktopology router,gateway,andipaddressinformation problemdescription.
Documentation home sun cluster software installation guide for solaris os chapter 4 sparc. Veritas volume replicator release notes veritas volume replicator by symantec vvr is a licensed product and an addon feature to veritas volume manager vxvm. Registering these changes ensures that the namespace on all cluster nodes is updated. Solaris 10 sparc only note 1 this issue is not seen on solaris 10 x64. Although i have worked with hpux 1011 vmm is integrted, i still dont know what is the command for modifying, monitoring and troubleshooting vvm on solaris 8.
Veritas volume manager coexistence with oracle automatic storage management disks. Supported from coexistence point of view solaris 10 sparc u9, u10, u11 s s s s s s s s s s s t tested successfully. Obtain any veritas volume manager vxvm license keys that you need to install. Storage foundation volume server sf volume server is a separately licensed.
Booting from an alternate boot disk on sun sparc systems 45 booting from an alternate mirror boot disk on sun x64. How to install veritas volume manager software and. Vcs veritas cluster server vm volume manager vom veritas operations manager. Installing veritas volume manager at the time of this writing, solaris 8 is the most commonly deployed version of solaris, so well use that as the basis for this example. Technicalsupports primaryroleistorespondtospecificqueriesaboutproductfeaturesandfunctionality. Insert the vxvm cdrom in the cdrom drive on the node. Veritasstoragefoundation release notes sort home veritas. The product functionality initially designed in veritas volume manager 5.
Veritasstoragefoundation and high availability solutions virtualization guide solaris 6. Technicalsupport symantectechnicalsupportmaintainssupportcentersglobally. Veritas file system vxfs veritas cluster file system vxcfs zettabyte file system zfs extended attributes in the vxfs, ufs, and zfs file systems. Server is a sun enterprise m5000 os solaris10 sparc veritas volume manager 5.
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