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Veritas Volume Manager command list Solaris 10/02/01 1.0 Hubertus A. Haniel (hubertus@unixcook.com)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------Create Veritas layout on a disk: vxdisksetup -i c1t10d0 NOTE - private regon is 1024 sectors by default which means that it is limited to 2000 objects, when creating extreemly large diskgroups vxdisksetup might need the flag of pri vlen=2048. Create a disk group on a new disk: vxdg init <dg name> <media name>=c1t10d0 Add disk to an existing disk group: vxdg -g <dg name> adddisk <media name>=c2t0d0 replace addisk with rmdisk to remove a disk Set up a preferred reading plex, this can be useful if we have a sparse plex (pl ex in RAM): vxvol -g <group> rdpol prefer <volname> <plexname> instead of prefer we can have round or sdeet View configuration: vxprint -th List disks: vxdisk list vxdisk -o alldgs list (shows deported disks) Adding disks while solaris is running: drvconfig (This probes scsi - Solaris) disks (Creates links in /dev - Solaris) prtvtoc (View the vtoc - Solaris) vxdctl enable (Rescan for disks - Veritas) vxdisk list (Shows the disk in error as they are not initalized jet) vxdisksetup (init the disks) To encapsulate use: vxencap -g <discgroup> <devicename> Export a disk group: vxdg deport <dg name> vxdg -h <hostame> deport <dgname> to export to another host Import a disk group: vxdg import <dg name> vxdg -C to clear hostid of old host (When failing over in DR situation) vxdg -fC to clear hostid of old host and forcing diskgroup online Destroy a disk group: vxdg destroy <disk group> Evacuate data from a disk: vxevac -g <dg name> <from disk> <to disks> Create a volume on a diskgroup: vxassist -g <dg name> make <volname> <size> layou=stripe

ncols=number of colums stripeunit=size Create a veritas filesystem on this volume: mkfs -F vxfs /dev/vx/rdsk/<disk group>/<volume> <size> Delete a volume same as creatiuon but replace make with remove Resize a filesystem: vxresize -g <disk group> -F <fstype> <volume> <size> If Veritas is ever causing you problems, do the following: Touch /etc/vx/reconfig.d/state.d/install-db edit /etc/system and modify /etc/vfstab to disable VRTS to start up and access the old root partitions

Other Examples: vxassist make martin 100m makes a volume called martin using any disk vxassist make martin 100m disk10 makes a volume called martin using disk10 vxassist make martin 100m layout=stripe disk07 disk08 creates a 100mb striped volume called martin using disks7 and 8 vxassist mirror martin disk05 disk06 uses disks5 and 6 ro make a mirror on volume called martin vxassist make martin 50m layout=mirror makes a 50Mb mirror using any 2 disks vxassist make martin 50m layout=mirror disk05 disk06 makes a 50mb mirror using disks 5 and 6 vxassist make martin 50m layout=mirror,stripe disk05 disk06 disk07 disk08 makes a 50Mb stripe using disks5 and 6 mirrored across 7 and 8 vxassist make martin 50m layout=mirror,stripe,log disk05 disk06 disk07 disk08 makes a 50Mb stripe using disks5 and 6 mirrored across 7 and 8 and uses a log subdisk vxassist make martin 100m layout=raid5 makes a 100m raid5 volume /usr/sbin/vxedit -g rootdg rename disk12 disk09 to rename disk12 to disk09 in the rootdg vxedit rm disk10 to remove a greyed out or obsolete disk in this case disk10 or to remove a disk from a diskgroup

vxdisk list - to list all disks under vmcontrol vxdisk clearimport c#t#d#s# to allow a disk to be imported after a server crash vxdg -g razadg rmdisk test to remove a disk called test from a dg called razadg vxdg -g razadg adddisk test=c1t3d3 to add disk c1t3d3 to a dg called razadg calling the disk test, use vxdisk list to determine what disks are free :) vxedit -g rootdg set spare=on disk09 sets disk09 in the rootdg as a hotspare. vxmirror rootdisk disk01 mirrors all the volumes on the root disk to disk01 vxassist -g rootdg mirror vol01 disk03 mirrors vol01 (in rootdg) to disk03 vxassist mirror martin will mirror the volume martin to make a mirror manually try /usr/sbin/vxmake -g rootdg sd disk03-01 dm_name=disk03 dm_offset=0 len=81920 to create a subdisk on disk03 callin the subdisk disk03-01 the len 81920 is 81920sectors x 512bytes =40M vxmake plex martin-02 sd=disk03-01 creates a plex called martin-02 using subdisk disk03-01 vxplex att martin martin-02 attaches the plex martin-02 to volume martin to list all volumes on your primary boot disk enter vxprint -t -v -e 'aslist.aslist.sd_disk="boot_disk_name"' vxsd mv disk03-01 disk05-01 moves the contents of subdisk disk03-01 to disk05-01 then moves subdisk disk05-01 into the plex where subdisk disk03-01 once lived, leaving disk03-01 to your mercy :) to make a subdisk vxmake sd disk02-02 disk02,0,8000 this would create a subdisk called disk02-02 at the start of disk02 and would be 8000blocks (4000k) long. if you wanted to create another subdisk on this disk the offset would

be 8000 as this is where the next free space would be onthe disk so... vxmake sd disk02-02 disk02,8000,8000 would create another 8000block subdisk. vxdisk rm c#t#d#s2 to remove a disk so it's out of vm control vxdiskadd c#t#d# to add bring a new disk under vm control or you can try... vxdisksetup -i c#t#d# vxvol -g dg volname stop this stops a volume vxedit -rf rm martin removes a volume called martin and plex(es) and subdisks though vxprint -ht volume to display info a stripe looks like this.. V NAME USETYPE KSTATE STATE LENGTH PREFPLEX PL NAME VOLUME KSTATE STATE LENGTH NCOL/WID MODE SD NAME PLEX DISK DISKOFFS LENGTH DEVICE MODE v martin martin-01 pl martin-01 RW sd disk04-01 c1t1d2 ENA sd disk05-01 c1t2d0 ENA sd disk02-01 c1t3d0 ENA sd disk03-01 c1t4d0 ENA fsgen martin martin-01 martin-01 martin-01 martin-01 ENABLED ACTIVE ENABLED ACTIVE disk04 disk05 disk02 disk03 0 0 0 0 204800 205776 51408 51408 51408 51408

READPOL LAYOUT [COL/]OFF SELECT STRIPE 0/0 1/0 2/0 3/0 4/128

a mirror like this... vxprint -ht martin Disk group: rootdg V NAME PREFPLEX PL NAME NCOL/WID MODE SD NAME DEVICE MODE v martin martin-01 pl martin-01 RW sd disk04-01 USETYPE VOLUME PLEX fsgen martin martin-01 KSTATE KSTATE DISK STATE STATE LENGTH LENGTH READPOL LAYOUT [COL/]OFF SELECT STRIPE 0/0 4/128

DISKOFFS LENGTH 204800 205776 51408

ENABLED ACTIVE ENABLED ACTIVE disk04 0

c1t1d2 ENA sd disk05-01 c1t2d0 ENA sd disk02-01 c1t3d0 ENA sd disk03-01 c1t4d0 ENA pl martin-02 WO sd disk10-01 c1t1d3 ENA

martin-01 martin-01 martin-01 martin martin-02

disk05 disk02 disk03

0 0 0

51408 51408 51408

1/0 2/0 3/0 CONCAT 0 -

ENABLED TEMPRMSD 205632 disk10 0 205632

a raid5 like this... unix# vxprint -ht martin Disk group: rootdg V NAME PREFPLEX PL NAME NCOL/WID MODE SD NAME DEVICE MODE v martin pl martin-01 RW sd disk04-01 c1t1d2 ENA sd disk06-01 c1t1d4s2 ENA sd disk05-01 c1t2d0 ENA sd disk02-01 c1t3d0 ENA pl martin-02 RW sd disk03-01 c1t4d0 ENA USETYPE VOLUME PLEX raid5 martin martin-01 martin-01 martin-01 martin-01 martin martin-02 KSTATE KSTATE DISK STATE STATE LENGTH LENGTH READPOL LAYOUT [COL/]OFF RAID RAID 0/0 1/0 2/0 3/0 CONCAT 0 4/32

DISKOFFS LENGTH 40992 42336 14112 14112 14112 14112 2016 2016

ENABLED ACTIVE ENABLED ACTIVE disk04 disk06 disk05 disk02 0 0 0 0

ENABLED LOG disk03 0

vxplex -o rm dis plex deletes a plex, or volume if used with -f vxplex det plex-0# detach's one half of the plex.. if a volume is unstartable try try to start it by setting one of the plexes in a mirror to CLEAN using vxmend mirror plex_name if this doesn't get the plex back into a kernel state of enabled try vxplex att vol_name plex_name to dissociate a subdisk try

vxsd dis disk##-## remove a subdisk by vxedit rm disk##-## this command show's you what the lagest stripe you can currently have ? vxassist maxsize layout=stripe Maximum volume size: 17833984 (8708Mb) same again for raid5 vxassist maxsize layout=raid5 Maximum volume size: 12300288 (6006Mb) this shows how you how much you can grow a volume by.. vxassist maxgrow vol01 Volume vol01 can be extended by 18245632 to 18450432 (9009Mb) vxassist growto martin 2000 grows a volume to 2000 512byte sectors vxassist growby martin 2000 increases the volume martin by 2000 512byte sectors vxassist shrinkto vol_name 1000 will shrink a volume by 1000 sectors, make sure you don't shrink a volume below the current size of the filesystem vxassist shrinkby vol_name 1000 shrinks a volume by 1000 sectors vxvol set len=100000 vol_name will change the length to 100000 sectors it cannot increase the volume unless spce is available in the plexes (use vxassist) vxsd -s SIZE split orignal_sd newdisk newdisk this will split an existing subdisk in 2 of the specified SIZE vxsd join sd1 sd2 new_sd joins subdisk1 and subdisk1 to create a new subdisk ssaadm -t 1|2|3 stop|start controller # so start/stop disk trays... vxrecover -s vol_name will start a volume vxrecover -s will start all volumes vxvol maint vol_name puts a volume in to maintenance mode vxmend off plex_name to offline a plex

vxplex att vol_name plex_name attches and starts the plex in a volume vxmend on plex_name to start plex in volume if the volume won't start up try vxinfo volume_name vxedit set user=martin group=techies mode=0666 volume sets the owner as martin the group as techies and the mode to rw-rw-rw on a volume vxvol rdpol round volume sets a round robin read policy on a volume vxvol rdpol prefer vol_name plex_anme sets a prefered plex to read from. vxedit set comment="message" disk01-01 sets the comment field to testing vxedit set putil01="go away" vol01 sets the putil01 to "go away" vxrecover -b vol well bring stale plexes back online, -b indcates background job vxassist move volume !disk10 move the voume to a disk other than disk10 vxmend fix clean plex_name sets the plax toa clean state so you can start vol and access data vxdg list lists all diskgroups vxdisk list lists all disks under VM control and which group their in vxdisk list disk01 lists the properties of disk01 vxprint -vt vxprint -l volume_name vxprint -vl display's info about the volumes vxprint -lp vxprint -l plex_name displays info about plexes vxprint -st vxprint -l disk##-## displays info about subdisks ssaadm display -p c# show disk iops over 10 seconds...

vxtrace vol traces all i/o on a volume.. vxstat -d to report disk stats vxdg free displays the free space on the disks vxassist maxgrow vol tells you how much you can grow a volume by vxsd aslog vol01-01 disk02-01 adds a log disk (disk02-01) to the volume vol01-01 vxassist addlog volume_name creates a log disk for a raid5 volume. there are some variables you can set for debugging S_DEBUG P_DEDUG I_DEBUG O_DEBUG - prints info when running mode sense command - prints info for each ext library function called prints progress during get status function prints when files are opened