Re: AIX and symmir

From: John Jolet (john.jolet_at_FXFN.COM)
Date: 04/28/04

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    Date:         Wed, 28 Apr 2004 12:46:30 -0500
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    not really, i try not to mess with the bcv volumes :)
    I'm not doing this in an lpar environment, either.

    Drew Myers wrote:

    >Thanks John...trying that now. Any idea why this happened, and/or how I
    >can prevent it in the future?
    >
    >On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 12:11, John Jolet wrote:
    >
    >
    >>ignore previous post...i meant remove the hdisks and reacquire them.
    >>
    >>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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