Configuring Appliance Luns With Veritas Volume Manager - HP Open View Installation And Maintenance Manual

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Configuring appliance LUNs with Veritas Volume Manager

This procedure assumes that Veritas Volume Manager (DMP) is installed and the local hard
disk drive has been added to Volume Manager as the root disk.
To configure appliance LUNs for a Solaris host with Veritas Volume Manager:
1. From the Solaris host, go to the /kernel/drv directory and use vi to edit the
2. Change the parameter jbod_dmp = "Hitachi" to jbod_dmp= "HP."
3. Save and exit the vxdmp.conf file.
4. Use the –r option to reboot and reconfigure the Solaris host.
5. Map the appropriate LUNs to the Solaris host from both appliance nodes..
6. Follow steps 5 through 7 in
7. Open a command prompt.
8. To ensure the Solaris operating system can use these LUNs, enter the following command:
9. To verify that you can detect the mapped LUNs in Volume Manager, enter one of the
10. Once you can detect the LUNs in Veritas Volume Manager, you should complete the
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vxdmp.conf file.
Manager."
"vxdctl enable"
following commands:
"vxdisk list"
"vxdiskadm"
following steps:
Add the LUNs to a volume group.
Create a logical volume and file system.
Refer to the Veritas administrator's guide for instructions.
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