When Installing Hdlm In A Boot Disk Environment - Hitachi XP P9500 User Manual

25 If you are using a virtual I/O server, define an hdisk as a virtual target
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device.
Execute the following command on the virtual I/O server:
When creating the hdisk as a virtual target device:
When creating the logical volume as a virtual target device:
26 Execute the following command in the client logical partition to
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reconfigure the device:
# cfgmgr
27 Execute the following command in the client logical partition to confirm
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that the physical volume has been recognized as hdisk.
If the following message is displayed, then the physical volume (hdisk)
was recognized correctly:
# lsdev -Cc disk
hdisk1 Available
28 Activate the volume group used by HDLM.
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# varyonvg volume-group-name
29 Mount the file system used by HDLM.
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# mount file-system-mount-point
30 Check the path configuration according to the procedure described in
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Checking the Path Configuration on page

When Installing HDLM in a Boot Disk Environment

To perform a new installation of HDLM:
1 For AIX 5.3, use a single-path configuration for hosts and storage
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systems.
For AIX 6.1 or AIX 7.1, you can use a single-path configuration or a multi-
path configuration for hosts and storage systems.
2 Log in to AIX as the root user.
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If you are using a virtual I/O server, see the virtual I/O server
documentation to log in to AIX.
3 If the boot disk is in a multi-path configuration, execute the commands
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below to confirm that the physical volume containing the boot logical
volume hd5 is the same as the physical volume used for booting.
If the boot disk is in a single-path configuration, you do not have to
perform this step.
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$ mkvdev -vdev hdisk-name -vadapter virtual-SCSI-server-
adapter-name
$ mkvdev -vdev logical-volume-name -vadapter virtual-SCSI-
server-adapter-name
Virtual SCSI Disk Drive
Creating an HDLM Environment
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