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[marrow]

I have some test systems, Solaris9>10, can I install veritas without disk arrays and simply mirror as in SDS? If so which s/w has to be downloaded.

Thanks for ay advice

 

[dandan123]

Yes you can do that, I don't believe you can download software for Sun sparc platforms anymore, you would have to buy it along with licenses from Symantec.

They might give you a demo license to start with.

 

[djr111]

In addition,

I personally do not like putting my root disks under veritas control. I prefer to use SVM for my root disks and then put my storage under VXVM, but as dandan123 stated, it is doable.

 

[cndcadams]

I agree with djr111, putting root drives under veritas control is more problems then it is worth. Much easier to deal with SDS mirrored boot drives.

CA

 

[Annihilannic]

I used to think that back in VxVM 2.6 days (it was horrible), but these days I have no issues with putting root drives under Veritas control.

Annihilannic.

 

[AnotherAlan]

All,

Apologies for restarting this thread.
I am faced with a situation whereby an old Sol8 server has had vxvm 3.2 installed using the gui.
Looking at the layout the swap partition has not been mirrored correctly. As a complete novice with vxvm I would like to remove the root disks from vx control and place them under the trusty SDS.

I intend on using vxunroot to perform this, however, as there is a disk array attached to this is it possible to remove the root disks and the subsequent rootdg group without my boss wanting to hurt me?

Thanks

 

[Annihilannic]

You must have a rootdg disk group with VxVM 3.2 for it to function. It's only in VxVM 4.0 or higher that it can operate without a rootdg.

Having said that, it doesn't have to be your root disk in the rootdg, it can be any disk(s).

Annihilannic.

 

[AnotherAlan]

Thanks Anni,

Thats what he said as well. I guess I am going to have to go through a more painful route.

Much appreciated.

 

[Annihilannic]

Well, possibly not very painful... do you have a spare disk you can make a member of rootdg? Even one with filesystems on it that you can encapsulate? That's all you need... then you should be able to remove the root disks from rootdg.

Annihilannic.

 

[AnotherAlan]

Unfortunately not. I have the two internals and the D1000 array which houses all the database disks in their own group.
From reading around a bit I can see that this can be done with vxmksdpart (one of your previous answers I believe) but I've never performed any of this before and am a little nervous. The main issue I have is that the swap partitions are not mirrored correctly and the vtocs are all over the place (something VxVM does often I now understand).
I would like to get it back to something I recognise and am comfortable working with. BUT, I like a challenge, so I will go home and read some more. When I have some specific questions or get really stuck, if you would be so kind I may ask again.
Thanks as always Anni.