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vxdctl enable does not show disk under veritas

Updated: 22 Mar 2012 | 6 comments
Rajan Iyer's picture
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Hi,

 

As part of creating Disk Group. I am facing the below problem

-After formating the disk and changing the label I have executed "vxdctl enable", but it still does not shows under vxdg list.

 

Please suggest.

 

Thanks

Raj

 

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Gaurav Sangamnerkar's picture
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Hi Rajan, your statement is

Hi Rajan,

your statement is little confusing .. can u elaborate a bit more ...

1. what was the disk state before in "vxdisk list" ?

2. when you did the label & ran a "vxdctl enable", what was state in "vxdisk list" ?

3. Did you initialize the disk using "vxdisksetup -i <diskname> ?

4. Did you add disk to the Diskgroup using "vxdg -g <diskgroup> adddisk <dmname=daname>" ?

 

Once all this is done then you will see disk added to the diskgroup ...

Also what is the OS & VxVM version ?

 

G

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Rajan Iyer's picture
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Hi

Hi,

It is new lun attached to my solaris server.

That new disk is visible under Format command.

Initially this does not shows under "vxdisk list".----------After "vxdctl enable"---------------------

After vxdctl enable it does not shows the disk under "vxdisk list" [No entry at all]

 

Whether server reboot will resolve above issue ?

 

 

 

Please suggest.

 

Gaurav Sangamnerkar's picture
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other options before can be

other options before can be tried before rebooting the server ..

what is the OS & VxVM version ?

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Hi

Issue has been resolved after rebooting the server.

In the same ref. I suspect that there were inconsisteny of VxVM disk configurations with actual one, the same has been resolved by rebooting as reboot will restart the all daemons of VxVM.

 

Thanks

Rajan

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2012
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You need to use "vxdisk list"

You need to use "vxdisk list" not "vxdg list" to see disk.

To create diskgroup use  "vxdg init <diskgroup> [<dmname>=]<daname>", and then to add subsequent disks use  "vxdg -g <diskgroup> adddisk [<dmname>=]>daname>"

Mike

UK Symantec Consultant in VCS, GCO, SF, VVR, VxAT on Solaris, AIX, HP-ux, Linux & Windows

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I am sure, if you had looked

I am sure, if you had looked at "vxdisk list <disk>" on all newly added disks, you would have found the disk having other disks paths in multipath info in some disk. This is most common issue while adding new luns on server and disks are not visible to vxvm.

You can try to disable and enable all new disks paths using vxdmpadm and do vxdctl enable.

If above does not work, reboot is only solution.

~Anoop