Migrating to FastT

From: Drew T (Andrew.Townsend_at_BISYS.COM)
Date: 07/21/05

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    Date:         Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:33:12 -0400
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    Hello all.

    We are migrating a few of our non-production AIX boxes to Fast-T. We have
    two adapters zoned to the Fast-T, for redundancy (fcs0 and fcs2).

    [atownsen @ uxsyblab1] /home/unixsa/atownsen >>lsdev -Cc adapter | grep fc
    fcs0 Available 41-08 FC Adapter (Fast-T)
    fcs1 Available 47-08 FC Adapter (to something else)
    fcs2 Available 4F-08 FC Adapter (Fast-T)

    When we ran cfgmgr, each disk showed up twice. There are only 12 physical
    disks, and there is an exported volume group on them. As you can see, there
    are actually 24 disks in the available state, 12 for each adapter.

    If I had only one adapter, and saw only 12 disks, I would go ahead and
    import the vg. But I'm not sure in this case. (It's only lab). Should I go
    ahead and import them anyway?

    Thanks,

    Drew

    Here is the lsdev output for the disks:

    [atownsen @ uxsyblab1] /home/unixsa/atownsen >>lsdev -Cc disk
    hdisk0 Available 4M-08-00-8,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive
    hdisk1 Available 4M-08-00-9,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive
    hdisk2 Available 41-08-02 1742 (700) Disk Array Device
    hdisk3 Available 41-08-02 1742 (700) Disk Array Device
    hdisk4 Available 41-08-02 1742 (700) Disk Array Device
    hdisk5 Available 41-08-02 1742 (700) Disk Array Device
    hdisk6 Available 41-08-02 1742 (700) Disk Array Device
    hdisk7 Available 41-08-02 1742 (700) Disk Array Device
    hdisk8 Available 41-08-02 1742 (700) Disk Array Device
    hdisk9 Available 41-08-02 1742 (700) Disk Array Device
    hdisk10 Available 41-08-02 1742 (700) Disk Array Device
    hdisk11 Available 41-08-02 1742 (700) Disk Array Device
    hdisk12 Available 41-08-02 1742 (700) Disk Array Device
    hdisk13 Available 41-08-02 1742 (700) Disk Array Device
    hdisk14 Available 4F-08-02 1742 (700) Disk Array Device
    hdisk15 Available 4F-08-02 1742 (700) Disk Array Device
    hdisk16 Available 4F-08-02 1742 (700) Disk Array Device
    hdisk17 Available 4F-08-02 1742 (700) Disk Array Device
    hdisk18 Available 4F-08-02 1742 (700) Disk Array Device
    hdisk19 Available 4F-08-02 1742 (700) Disk Array Device
    hdisk20 Available 4F-08-02 1742 (700) Disk Array Device
    hdisk21 Available 4F-08-02 1742 (700) Disk Array Device
    hdisk22 Available 4F-08-02 1742 (700) Disk Array Device
    hdisk23 Available 4F-08-02 1742 (700) Disk Array Device
    hdisk24 Available 4F-08-02 1742 (700) Disk Array Device
    hdisk25 Available 4F-08-02 1742 (700) Disk Array Device

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