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    VxVM allows administrators to configure volume layouts for redundancy and performance. The document describes how to: 1) Create a disk group "mydg" using disk "c1t2d0" and add another disk "c1t3d0". 2) Make a 500MB concatenated volume "myvol" and file system in the disk group. 3) Mount the file system and check the volume layout, which has one plex with a subdisk on "c1t2d0". 4) Instructions are provided on removing the volume, disks, and disk group when no longer needed.

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    VxVM allows administrators to configure volume layouts for redundancy and performance. The document describes how to: 1) Create a disk group "mydg" using disk "c1t2d0" and add another disk "c1t3d0". 2) Make a 500MB concatenated volume "myvol" and file system in the disk group. 3) Mount the file system and check the volume layout, which has one plex with a subdisk on "c1t2d0". 4) Instructions are provided on removing the volume, disks, and disk group when no longer needed.

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    VxVM allows administrators to configure volume layouts for redundancy and performance. The document describes how to: 1) Create a disk group "mydg" using disk "c1t2d0" and add another disk "c1t3d0". 2) Make a 500MB concatenated volume "myvol" and file system in the disk group. 3) Mount the file system and check the volume layout, which has one plex with a subdisk on "c1t2d0". 4) Instructions are provided on removing the volume, disks, and disk group when no longer needed.

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    VxVM allows administrators to configure volume layouts for redundancy and performance. The document describes how to: 1) Create a disk group "mydg" using disk "c1t2d0" and add another disk "c1t3d0". 2) Make a 500MB concatenated volume "myvol" and file system in the disk group. 3) Mount the file system and check the volume layout, which has one plex with a subdisk on "c1t2d0". 4) Instructions are provided on removing the volume, disks, and disk group when no longer needed.

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    Lessons Learnt

    Creating Volume
    and file system VXVM
    Prepared By
    F. Mohaideen Abdul Kader

    Document Type: Lessons Learnt


    WIPRO LIMITED

    Creating Volume and file system


    VxVM allows a system administrator to configure various volume layouts for the volume thus
    allowing high redundancy and high performance. Let us see how we can create a basic volume and a
    file system with Veritas Volume Manager.
    I have added six, 1 GB disks (other than two, 16 GB disks for root mirroring) to my vmware virtual
    machine for future tutorials.
    To check all the disks scanned under the Operating System:
    # vxdisk eo alldgs list
    DEVICE
    TYPE
    DISK
    disk_8
    auto:none disk_9
    auto:none disk_10 auto:none disk_11 auto:none disk_12 auto:none disk_13 auto:none disk_14 auto:none disk_15 auto:none -

    GROUP
    STATUS
    online invalid
    online invalid
    online invalid
    online invalid
    online invalid
    online invalid
    online invalid
    online invalid

    OS_NATIVE_NAME ATTR
    c1t0d0s2
    c1t1d0s2
    c1t5d0s2
    c1t2d0s2
    c1t6d0s2
    c1t3d0s2
    c1t8d0s2
    c1t4d0s2
    -

    OS native Vs Enclosure based naming Scheme


    We can have disks naming scheme in 2 ways OS native and Enclosure based. For my convenience I
    will be using OS native disk scheming. But you can have it your way. To change the scheme use
    vxdiskadm command and select option 20. You can use enclosure based naming scheme if you
    prefer that. You would see the difference in the DEVICE column in the output of vxdisk -eoalldgs
    list as shown above and below in the vxdisk command output.
    To check the current naming scheme
    # vxddladm get namingscheme
    NAMING_SCHEME
    PERSISTENCE LOWERCASE USE_AVID
    ============================================================
    OS Native
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    To change the naming scheme through command line
    # vxddladm set namingscheme=ebn
    # vxddladm get namingscheme
    NAMING_SCHEME
    PERSISTENCE LOWERCASE USE_AVID
    ============================================================
    Enclosure Based Yes
    Yes
    Yes

    # vxdisk eo alldgs list


    DEVICE
    TYPE
    DISK
    c1t0d0s2 auto:none c1t1d0s2 auto:none c1t2d0s2 auto:none c1t3d0s2 auto:none c1t4d0s2 auto:none c1t5d0s2 auto:none c1t6d0s2 auto:none c1t8d0s2 auto:none -

    GROUP
    -

    STATUS
    online invalid
    online invalid
    online invalid
    online invalid
    online invalid
    online invalid
    online invalid
    online invalid

    OS_NATIVE_NAME ATTR
    c1t0d0s2
    c1t1d0s2
    c1t2d0s2
    c1t3d0s2
    c1t4d0s2
    c1t5d0s2
    c1t6d0s2
    c1t8d0s2
    -

    I would exclude the root disk (c1t0d0) and a disk supposed to be mirrored (c1t1d0) with it later on.
    # df -h /
    Filesystem
    size used avail capacity Mounted on
    /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0
    15G 5.9G 8.6G 41% /
    Now first initialize the disk we want to use for the disk group creation. If you have seen output of
    vxdisk list, you would see all the disks with STATUS of online invalid. This indicates that the disk is
    not under VxVM control. To take it under VxVM control we would initialize it.
    # vxdisksetup -i c1t2d0
    vxdiks list would now show you the status as online implying that the disk is now under VxVM
    control.
    # vxdisk list
    DEVICE
    TYPE
    DISK
    c1t0d0s2 auto:none
    c1t1d0s2 auto:none
    c1t2d0s2 auto:cdsdisk c1t3d0s2 auto:none
    c1t4d0s2 auto:none
    c1t5d0s2 auto:none
    c1t6d0s2 auto:none
    c1t8d0s2 auto:none
    -

    GROUP
    -

    STATUS
    online invalid
    online invalid
    online
    online invalid
    online invalid
    online invalid
    online invalid
    online invalid

    Initialization Vs Encapsulation
    Now before going forward let us see whats the difference between encapsulation and initialization.
    Initialization When a disk is initialized a private and public region is created on the disk (placed
    under VxVM control) and VM disk header information is written to the private region. All the data
    already present on the disk is erased.
    Encapsulation Disk is taken under VxVM control when it is initialized but the data is preserved in
    this method.

    Now create the disk group mydg by specifying the disk we just initialized. You can give any name to
    disk you prefer instead of disk01.
    # vxdg init mydg disk01=c1t2d0
    bash-3.2# vxdg list
    NAME
    STATE
    ID
    mydg
    enabled,cds
    1381663220.16.geeklab
    bash-3.2# vxdisk eo alldgs list
    DEVICE
    TYPE
    DISK
    GROUP
    STATUS
    c1t0d0s2 auto:none online invalid
    c1t1d0s2 auto:none online invalid
    c1t2d0s2 auto:cdsdisk disk01
    mydg
    online
    c1t3d0s2 auto:none online invalid
    c1t4d0s2 auto:none online invalid
    c1t5d0s2 auto:none online invalid
    c1t6d0s2 auto:none online invalid
    c1t8d0s2 auto:none online invalid

    OS_NATIVE_NAME ATTR
    c1t0d0s2
    c1t1d0s2
    c1t2d0s2
    c1t3d0s2
    c1t4d0s2
    c1t5d0s2
    c1t6d0s2
    c1t8d0s2
    -

    Now create a simple concatenated volume myvol of around 500 MB size in the mydg.
    # vxassist -g mydg make myvol 500m
    Create a vxfs file system on this volume and also create a directory to mount this volume.
    # mkfs -F vxfs /dev/vx/rdsk/mydg/myvol
    To make the mount to persists after reboot you can add an entry to /etc/vfstab. Also it is a preferred
    way to check the entry in vfstab by mounting it with just mount /mount-point or mountall
    command.
    # cat /etc/vfstab |grep data
    /dev/vx/dsk/mydg/myvol /dev/vx/rdsk/mydg/myvol /data vxfs 0
    # mount /data ( or mountall)
    bash-3.2# df -h |grep data
    /dev/vx/dsk/mydg/myvol 500M 2.2M 467M

    yes

    1% /data

    Adding a new disk to the existing disk group


    We can also add disks after we create the disk group. Before adding a new disk initialize it.
    # vxdisksetup -i c1t3d0
    # vxdg -g mydg adddisk disk02=c1t3d0

    To check the layout of the volume we just create:


    # vxprint -g mydg -htr
    .............
    dg mydg
    default default 28000 1381663220.16.geeklab
    dm disk01
    dm disk02

    c1t2d0s2
    c1t3d0s2

    auto
    auto

    65536 2027168 65536 2027168 -

    v myvol
    ENABLED ACTIVE 1024000 SELECT fsgen
    pl myvol-01 myvol
    ENABLED ACTIVE 1024000 CONCAT RW
    sd disk01-01 myvol-01 disk01 0
    1024000 0
    c1t2d0 ENA
    As you can see in the output above, a plex with one subdisk is created which comprises the volume
    myvol. You can also see the layout as concat in the 6th column.
    To check the disk property of a disk in the mydg :
    # vxdisk -p list c1t2d0
    DISK
    : c1t2d0s2
    DISKID
    : 1381663112.11.geeklab
    VID
    : VMware,
    UDID
    :
    VMware%2C%5FVMware%20Virtual%20S%5FDISKS%5F6000C2952A4E5B4ACE2B2AE07A473A35
    SCSI_VERSION : 2
    REVISION
    : 1.0
    PID
    : VMware Virtual S
    PHYS_CTLR_NAME : /pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10
    MEDIA_TYPE : hdd
    LUN_SNO_ORDER : 0
    LUN_SERIAL_NO : 6000C2952A4E5B4ACE2B2AE07A473A35
    LIBNAME
    : scsi3_jbod
    DMP_DEVICE : c1t2d0
    CAB_SERIAL_NO : DISKS
    ATYPE
    : Disk
    ARRAY_PORT_PWWN:
    ANAME
    : Disk
    TRANSPORT : SCSI
    Remove volume , diks and diskgroups
    Before removing the volume umount the mount point /data and remove the entry from vfstab.
    # umount /data
    After removing the volume you can remove the disks in the diskgroup. But the last disk can not be
    removed. For that we have to remove the entire disk group mydg. After removing the DG we can use
    these disks in any other DG.

    # vxassist -g mydg remove volume myvol


    # vxdg -g mydg rmdisk disk02
    # vxdg -g mydg rmdisk disk01
    VxVM vxdg ERROR V-5-1-10127 disassociating disk-media disk01:
    Cannot remove last disk in disk group
    # vxdg destroy mydg

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