Recently I had a task to replace disk in veritas, I had 72gb FC drive and I needed to replace it with 146gb FC drive to gain some additional space in my V880 server. Server has 6 internal disks. I cannot just pull disk out of V880, I have to use luxadm to offline it.
First step is to identify the Enclosure in your V880 server, to accomplish this task I need to run luxadm probe
# luxadm probe
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Document ID: 2086
SYNOPSIS: Ten common SSA/VOLUME Manager Questions
DETAIL DESCRIPTION:
1. Disaster destroys VM configuration
2. Encapsulating a disk fails
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Veritas Volume Manager (vxvm)
rescan bus for volume manager devices after device reconfiguration
vxdctl enable
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Information
vxprint -Aht
vxdisk list
show multipathing info
vxdisk list <specific_disk>
vxdg list
never really need to use
vxdmpadm
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hastatus -sum — gives you the status of the cluster
haconf -makero — makes the cluster configuration writable
hagrp -switch — switch a service group to another machine
ot@ivan1]# cd /opt/VRTS/bin/
[root@ivan1]# ./hastatus -sum
– SYSTEM STATE
– System State Frozen
A ivan1 RUNNING 0
A ivan2 RUNNING 0
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What’s the easiest way to uninstall veritas
> Hi, I have old veritas 3.x series an I wanted to uninstall it from my
> Solaris box, what would be easiest way to do to get this task accomplished?
> I do have root disk mirrored using veritas but its not a problem for me to
> take mirror disk out of the system.
>
> Thanks for pointing me into any links or instructions. Greatly do appreciate
> it.
>
copy /etc/vfstab.prevm /etc/vfstab
copy /etc/system.prevm /etc/system
(MAKE SURE YOU HAVE NO VOLUMES OUT THERE STILL UNDER VERITAS CONTROL)
reboot
pkgrm all the veritas product stuff.
