Volume Manager; importing a disk

[hanh13]

System: Alpha with Tru64 5.1b



Disk under LSM (Logical Storage Manager; essentially v2 of Veritas VxVM) control was generating disk errors. The disk was timing out a lot and generating a few disk errors. DBAs couldn't keep the oracle instance up on that node of the cluster. I contacted HP and got a replacement disk and replaced it a couple of days ago.



Unfortunately, the DBAs didn't have a good back up of the data.



I've put the old disk back in the SCSI shelf and would like to have LSM recognize it again but without losing any of the data on the public disk.



We're considering running voldisksetup disk06 to bring the disk back under LSM control and then volrecover disk06 to restore the metadata for this disk.



The question is, would voldisksetup cause a problem or lose the data that currently exists in the public disk? Can you think of an alternate way that I can research?



Thanks for checking this out.



Carl

More Information:

1. Protect storage devices from usage * Module 5 - Veritas Volume Manager Volume Operations
2. A volume manager is a tool that lets you create units of disk storage known as storage groups
3. Solaris Volume Manager has expanded the functionality of the metaimport command
4. A disk group can be converted from shared to private by deporting it via vxdg deport and then importing it with the vxdg import diskgroup command
5. Import the disk group using the Cluster Volume Manager command vxclustadm or the Cluster Server command hares:
6. Do not delete the missing disk's volumes or select the Remove Disk option in Disk Management unless you intentionally removed the physical disk from the system and you do not intend to ever reattach it
7. starting/stopping the volume can be accomplished as such: First, import the disk group
8. The following task map identifies the procedures that are needed to manage Solaris Volume Manager disk sets and Solaris Volume Manager for Sun Cluster
9. Volume Manager; importing a disk, BOFH, Filesystems, Disks and Memory, 1, 02-06-2008 12:11 PM

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[thenoob]

I will move this out of the shell scripting forum to a more appropriate forum.

More Information:

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2. The rootdg in the VxVM Volume Manager is not the same as the HP-UX root disk, and cannot be used for the HP-UX root file system (/)
3. Dynamic disks can contain only dynamic volumes (that is, volumes created by
4. EMC Storage Product Knowledge Sharing: Handling BCV and Clone Disk on Veritas Volume Manager
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