Introducing Vxvm While Using Hdlm; Linking Vxvm And Sun Cluster - Hitachi XP P9500 User Manual

If the STATE column shows DISABLED, the device has been removed from
VxVM. The following shows an example of executing the command:
If there is more than one candidate for the controller number to be
assigned in step 4, you might not be able to remove devices from VxVM
in one operation. In this case, change the controller number you changed
in step 4 to another controller number that was displayed using the
vxdmpadm command, and then perform steps 5 and 6 again.

Introducing VxVM while Using HDLM

To introduce VxVM in an environment in which HDLM is being used:
1 Create a disk group in accordance with the procedure described in
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Do not register a disk group containing an HDLM device as bootdg.
For information on creating a disk group or a volume for HDLM devices,
refer to the VxVM documentation.
2 To use Sun Cluster, perform step 5 in
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Linking VxVM and Sun Cluster

To create a file system on an HDLM device managed by VxVM and use
it with Sun Cluster, perform the following procedure to create the file
system:
1 On each node, execute the vxdisk list command to verify that VxVM
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recognizes the HDLM device.
2 On one of the nodes, execute the following command to check the device
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ID of the HDLM device:
# /usr/cluster/bin/scdidadm -L
3 If a VxVM disk group has not been created, execute the vxdiskadm utility
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of VxVM on one of the nodes to create a disk group for the HDLM device.
For details, see
Note
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Use the scswitch and shutdown commands to restart the node.
The following shows an example of executing the command:
# /usr/cluster/bin/scswitch -S -h phys-schost-1
# shutdown -g0 -y -i6
Creating an HDLM Environment
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