Re: AIX and symmir

From: Bill Verzal (BVerzal_at_KOMATSUNA.COM)
Date: 04/28/04

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    Actually, I just added 8 mirrors and BCVs to my S80 and H80.

    You need to rmdev and run cfgmgr after the split. That will get the new
    PVIDs.

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    on the host that's supposed to see the bcvs, try exporting, then
    reimporting the vg.

    Drew Myers wrote:

    >Good morning all,
    >
    >I've written about this overall topic before, and received excellent
    >information, so I hope someone will recognize this wrinkle.
    >
    >IBM p671 split into 2 LPARs. EMC SAN connected to each LPAR, but
    >separate LUNs are visible to each host. I've built BCVs to be
    >accessible by one host, regular LUNs visible to the other host.
    >
    >When I did the initial testing, I was able to establish the BCV mirror,
    >split the mirror, and importvg all the volume groups without problem.
    >However, I try it now, and the PVIDs and volume group information
    >doesn't seem to be getting copied from disk to BCV disk. Here are the
    >commands I'm using:
    >
    >$SYMMIR -g ODWH -full establish DEV001 BCV ld BCV001 \
    > DEV002 BCV ld BCV002 \
    > .
    > .
    > DEV040 BCV ld BCV040
    >
    ># run a script to move the DB to "backup mode"
    >
    >$SYMMIR -g ODWH split -noprompt
    >
    >At this point, I would expect to see the PVIDs and other information on
    >the BCVs that are visible to this particular host. However, they appear
    >to be blank, with no PVIDs present.
    >
    >Any suggestions appreciated.
    >
    >Drew Myers
    >
    >

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