Veritas dmp will continue to be used, powerpath sits at lower layer and intercept the calls to the different disks. It is possible that only part of a plex is located on the failed disk. Veritas founding ceo leslie on what symantec did wrong. You can invoke the commands from any directory in the command prompt window. Describes the commandline interface to the veritas intelligent storage. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. Use the vxdisk list command to find out which disks are failing. For information on how to convert solaris volume manager disks to. Most volume manager commands require appropriate privileges. If this space is not allocated for the software to use, it will. Once the software has been installed and properly initialized, vxvm can be used to. Veritas guides you from migration to mastery tech data.
Install the operating system prior to installing any veritas software. By default, veritas will name disks based on the name of the disk group. Then it went through a rough patch and now it seems to be getting back on track again. For a detailed discussion on how to use vxassist, refer to the veritas volume. The key sfw commands can be executed from the command line as well as from the gui.
If the volume has a striped plex associated with it, the. Xedit accepts all of the standard x toolkit command line options see x7. Veritas volume manager command quick reference backup. The vxedit command changes attributes of subdisks and other vxvm objects. Use vxdisk list to confirm that the disk is now a dedicated hotspare disk. The vxedit utility sets and changes attributes for veritas volume manager vxvm configuration records that do not depend upon volume usage. Veritas volume manager interview questions unixarena. Also, using the r with f will remove all plexes and subdisks with the volume.
To remove the disk from the dedicated hotspare pool, use the following command. The dgfailpolicy and diskdetpolicy attributes may also be set on a shared disk group by using the vxdg set command options d, g, p, p, s, v, v. Veritas software has been installed and that rootdg has been setup by the installer with a minimum of one disk. Veritas was a great company up until a few years back. This can be efortful because performing this manually takes some knowledge related to windows program uninstallation. Chapter 1 introducing the veritas agent for sybase this chapter contains the following topics. This is visible to some extent in the ratings trend on glassdoor. Veritas volume manager is the most widely used software for volume management. See the sun cluster software installation guide for solaris os for information about how to configure veritas volume manager if you use raw devices to contain the databases, run the following commands on the current diskgroup primary to change each devices owner, group, and mode. If you are using the bourne or korn shell sh or ksh, use the commands. Data protection pioneer veritas has become a market leader with a strong focus on cloudbased data protection and data management. Leave a comment posted by jflaster on april 18, 2012 in my career i have gone from building volumes from the bottom up approach, to using vxassist, to vea with cfs cluster and back to command line.
Their software and solutions help organizations protect their missioncritical data. The vxedit command is run with the rm option to remove the volume. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Veritas volume manager interview questions may 10, 20 by lingeswaran r 3 comments unix system administration is not an easy job and attending interview is an another toughest one. The company has its origins in tolerant systems, founded in 1983 and later renamed veritas software. Remove irrecoverable volumes such as v01 using the following command. How to configure the oracle database access using veritas. Configure the disk devices for the vxvm software to use. Mark leslie, who teaches at stanford and invests in information infrastructure startups, was the founding ceo at veritas software before it was sold to symantec. The utilities are available in the veritas storage foundation for windows installation directory, typically c. This product may contain third party software for which veritas is. How to clear the failing flag on a veritas volume manager.
The order of the command line options is not important. If the volume specified is in the enabled state, you will need to use the command vxedit f. Veritas cluster server agent for sybase installation and. If necessary, add new disks to the system and run drvconfig. For more information on the vxedit command refer to the vxedit manual page. About the veritas agent for sybase supported software monitoring options for the sybase agent how the agent makes sybase highly available typical sybase configuration in a vcs cluster about the veritas agent for sybase the veritas high availability agent for sybase brings the configured sybase. How to clear the failing flag on a veritas volume manager disk answer kannan. This can be done with the vxedit command using the rename operand. The would be the veritas name for the disk, such as disk01. The command vxedit can rename almost any vxvm object at any time. Hi, i have 1 simple question, my vcs was no diskarray case, i changed 2 heartbeat ip address to a new one, vcs working properly, but cant check disk status, it shows. Veritas volume manager software is an advanced, systemlevel disk and storage array solution that alleviates downtime during system maintenance by enabling easy, online disk administration and configuration.
Veritas has rebranded its storage foundation and high availability family products and now, from version 7 all the of the veritas products under this category comes with a brand name of infoscale. It specializes in storage management software including the first commercial journaling file system, vxfs, vxvm, vcs, the personalsmall office backup software backup exec and. This symantec product may contain third party software for which symantec is. Software interview questions artificial intelligence. In this tutorial, we are going to teach how to create a veritas volume manager vxvm volume and then how to create a vxfs filesystem and mount it in red hat enterprise linux 7 rhel 7. Hi all, i need info on veritas volume manager with solaris 8. Veritas produces volume and file system software that allows for extremely flexible and straightforward management of a systems disk storage resources. Veritas netbackup tutorial archives storage tutorials. Select only disk media, disk group, plex, rlink, subdisk, volume, or rvg records, respectively. Now that zfs is providing much of this same functionality from inside the os, it will be interesting to see how well veritas is.
The vxedit utility sets and changes attributes for veritas volume manager vxvm configuration records that do not depend upon volume usage types. So lets start actual process how to remove veritas file systems and reclaim storage. Veritas is a global leader in enterprise data management. The procedure works with all versions of the solaris operating system that use veritas volume manager vxvm software as the main disk management utility. Most veritas volume manager vxvm commands excepting daemons, library commands and supporting scripts are linked to the usrsbin directory from the optvrtsbin directory.
Add entries to etcsystem and loads kernel modules modinfo command will print. Introducing veritas foundation suite for aix ibm redbooks. For each disk group, use the vxedit1m command to assign one disk as a hot spare for each disk controller. This is the main deamon and needs to be running all the time. Specifies the files that are to be loaded during startup. Veritas storage foundation release notes solaris oracle. Vxvm vxedit command syntax with examples unixarena. Veritas volume manager troubleshooting guide oracle docs. It is recommended that you add the following directories to your path environment variable. You can change the enclosure names to uppercase by using the vxddladm set namingschemeebn lowercaseno command. Appendix c configuring veritas volume manager sun cluster.
I issued the vxedit command to change the volume name from say xxxxvol to zzzzvol with vxedit rename xxxxvol zzzzvol the vxprint after the change did not effect the p1 or sd definitions for the volume. Administrators use the vxedit command with the set spareon option to designate. Vvr command reference veritas services and operations. Veritas volume manager administrators guide oracle docs. For example, to configure five configuration copies for the disk group, bigdg, use the following command.
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