Clone a LPAR (alt_disk_copy) with HACMP

[MoreFeo]

Hi,

A client has got a 2 node cluster (AIX 5.3, HACMP 5.4) and they want to clone one of the nodes, to build a test LPAR.

They want to clone rootvg from one of the nodes with alt_disk_copy, and then create a new LPAR with this rootvg. This new LPAR will NOT be part of any cluster.

Does the alt_disk_copy remove the HACMP references?
I usually run alt_disk_copy with -O flag, to remove user defined configurations, but I've never done it with HACMP, and I'm not sure it will erase all this information.

Thanks.

 

[MoreFeo]

Finally I've cloned the lpar, and it doesn't remove the HACMP definitions.

So before configuring the new IP parameters for this LPAR I went to smit hacmp menu and deleted the cluster. This erased all the definitions.

 

[McleanWJM]

YOu will also have to remove the cluster.es software in order to remove the ODM entries for HACMP.

 

[MoreFeo]

Yes, you're right. At first I didn't remove this filesets, and the Oracle rootpre script failed, saying the cluster services should be started.
Removing the filesets did the trick.