Veritas volume manager on solaris 10 x86 user4994457 oct 9, 2009 4. How to install veritas volume manager software sun. Physical objects are direct mappings to physical disks 2. Senior sun solaris unix administrator 10 years experience. It had both cde common desktop environment and jds. Veritas volume manager administration considerations. The following veritas storage foundation packages will be installed on all systems. Veritas storage foundation is supported on the following solaris operating systems.
If the customer had moved the dump device to c0t1d0s1 before executing any veritas options or commands they would not have had this problem. Registering these changes ensures that the namespace on all cluster nodes is updated. Similar console security features might be available on intel x86based hardware, but. The steps are basically identical for the other releases. On solaris 10 sparc and x8664, sun microsystems implemented a new facility called the service management facility smf. Os on sparc, but not between the solaris os on x86 and linux. For sun cluster to maintain the vxvm namespace, you must register any vxvm disk group or volume changes as sun cluster device group configuration changes. Increasing value the integrated platform open source sw. Dec 10, 2006 transitives quicktransit for solaris sparc tolinux x86 64 solution enables applications that have been compiled for the solaris on sparc to run on certified 64bit hp proliant platforms running linux without requiring any source code or binary changes, hp reported. How to resize mirror volume in veritas volume manager 3. This training provides instruction on operational management procedures. Solaris 8 sparc platform 32bit and 64bit solaris 9 sparc platform 32bit and 64bit solaris 10 sparc or x64 platform 64bit. The a5000 disc enclosure series named photon had a vxvm license attached to it.
So i would like to know if i upgrade to solaris 10 0606. Veritas volume manager coexistence with svm and zfs solaris volume manager svm is a logical volume manager software provided by sun. I have solaris 10 installed on a sparc wanted to test veritas volume manager to manage the disks. If the customer had moved the dump device to c0t1d0s1 before executing any veritas. This can be used for practicing various volume manager commands for. One of the services in the smf is a new interface to replace the scripts or tasks that are located in the etcinit. Microsoft windows 2000 advanced server microsoft windows server 2003, enterprise edition microsoft windows xp ia64 itanium architecture. X86 oracle solaris operating system15 oracle solaris cluster software8 maximum number of nodes volume manager software6,9 multipath driver9 host adapters san switches 4 oracle solaris svm veritas vxvm 4. Veritas volume manager administrators guide thesoftwaredescribedinthisbookisfurnishedunderalicenseagreementandmaybeused only in accordance with the terms of the. How to install veritas volume manager software and encapsulate the. Below diagram explains how solaris volume manager differs from the veritas volume manager during the process of creating a new file system on top of physical storage. Emc symetrix vmax because of the low performance and maintenance costs involved. Veritas storage foundation release notes solaris oracle.
Since veritas has been bought by symantec, i have been trying to figure out their naming convention for the veritas products. However on the symantec site i see veritas foundation basic, server, etc but did not see veritas volume manager. Ibm system storage n series solaris host utilities 6. Veritas volume manager administrators guide solaris.
Vxvm tutorial 5 volume resize, resizeing veritas volumes on fly using. Jun 04, 2011 solaris volume manager vs veritas volume manager. Hi all, i have created a vmware appliance with solaris 10 and veritas voulme manager 5. Volume manager on solaris, patch detail sort veritas. Hello all, i try to allocate the same lun to two server or more in the future i use solaris 10, vxvm vxfs for data and solaris zones and emc dmx4, i try to migrate solaris zones between servers in case of problem. Vm solaris 10 or physical machine with solaris 10,vxvm 5. Once vxvm veritas volume manager volume ioshipping functionality is turned on, it is not getting disabled even after the user issues the correct command to disable it. Perform this procedure to install veritas volume manager vxvm software on each node that you want to install with vxvm.
Veritas dmp before you configure the host utilities for veritas dmp. This training provides instruction on operational management procedures for veritas volume manager vxvm and you will learn how to install and configure veritas volume manager and how to manage disks, disk groups, and volumes by using from the command line. What is the command to see the veritas volume manager 3. This lets you consolidate and centrally manage your workloads on one system. Aix reference for sun solaris administrators ibm redbooks. Documentation home sun cluster software installation guide for solaris os chapter 4 sparc. Unix client3 solariss, freebsd and irix solaris sparc and x8664, linux, and ics solaris sparc serverclients solaris x86bit serverclient linux 2.
Solaris 8 sparc platform 32bit and 64bit solaris 9 sparc platform 32bit and 64bit solaris 10 sparc. Veritas volume manager interview questions unixarena. Oracle solaris operating system oracle solaris 10 106 or later oracle solaris cluster software 3. How to install veritas volume manager software only. Veritas volume manager problem veritas volume manager problem 100mbs mis op. Option 5 under vxdiskadm menu can be used to replace a failed diks with a new one. Before kick starting the solaris study lets be aware of few important keywords and facts about the solaris os. Installing and configuring veritas volume manager sparc.
Every process has a unique identifier number known as process id. Run the following commands to set up ips repository for veritas sparc packages. Transitives quicktransit for solaris sparc tolinuxx8664 solution enables applications that have been compiled for the solaris on sparc to run on certified 64bit hp. Note to create the root disk group by encapsulating the root disk, do not use this procedure.
A plex consists of one or more subdisks located on one or more physical disks. Technicalsupport symantectechnicalsupportmaintainssupportcentersglobally. May 10, 20 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. Note most veritas volume manager commands require superuser or other appropriate. Furthermore, solarisx86 does not support more than one solaris fdisk. Veritas volume manager administrators guide thesoftwaredescribedinthisbookisfurnishedunderalicenseagreementandmaybeused only in. Solaris 10 veritas volume manager solutions experts exchange. Learn how to integrate, operate, veritas storage foundation in a solaris environment.
This is a following post for my previous san migration post solaris host level san migration with svm from clariion to vmax as discussed earlier in my previous post, many. Solarisx86 does not support dos directly in the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th primary partition of a disk. When vxvm veritas volume manager is upgraded from 4. Solaris 10 commad line guide adding new disk azizs blog. Veritas volume manager is a storage management application by symantec, which allows you to manage physical disks as logical devices called volumes. Apr 08, 20 this is a following post for my previous san migration post solaris host level san migration with svm from clariion to vmax as discussed earlier in my previous post, many organisations started migrating their server storage from old legacy san devices e. A piece of my mind on oracle, unixlinux, cisco, storage, tape library and veritas netbackup.
Veritas netbackup getting started guide fuberlin zedat. To use ai to install the solaris 11 operating system and veritas infoscale products. Command and function references sun cluster reference manual for solaris os. Replacing a failed disk under veritas volume manager vxvm using vxdiskadm.
Package package description vrtsvlic veritas licensing vrtsperl veritas perl 5. Zfs is a type of file system presenting a pooled storage model developed by sun. Sun zfs solaris 11 u2, u3 sparc and x86 yes yes centos ext 4 xfs centos 6. X86 oracle solaris operating system15 oracle solaris cluster software8 maximum number of nodes volume manager software6,9 multipath driver9 host adapters san switches 4 oracle. Beginners lesson veritas volume manager for solaris. It is wellsuited to hosts with a small veritas volume manager at the time of this writing, solaris 8 is the most commonly deployed version of solaris, so well use that as the basis for this example. Vxvm uses two types of objects to perform the storage management 1. Disksuite, and later solstice disksuite is a software package for creating, modifying and controlling raid0 concatenation and stripe. Veritas volume manager problems veritas volume manager problems 100mbs mis op 16 jan 07 15. Solaris sparc solaris x86 li nu o s os platform guide. This course prepares the student for the oracle certified professional, oracle solaris 11 advanced system administration exam 1z0822, including the upgrade to oracle solaris 11 system administrator exam 1z0. Disksuite newly referred to as solaris volume manager is available for free with the solaris operating system.
A process is a program running or being executed on the computer. Getting started with solaris 10 must to know keywords. Veritas volume manager on solaris 10x86 user4994457 oct 9, 2009 4. Disksuite newly referred to as solaris volume manager is available for free. Many instructions in this manual apply to all the environments supported by the host utilities. Depending on your setup, theres a legal way of running veritas volume manager on solaris if you dont mind a powerconsuming, noisy, and heavy hardware dongle dubbing as a fcal disc array. Depending on your setup, theres a legal way of running veritas volume manager on solaris if you dont mind a powerconsuming, noisy, and heavy hardware dongle dubbing as a fcal disc. Vcs veritas cluster server vm volume manager viom veritas infoscale operations manager. Veritas volume manager on solaris 10x86 oracle community. Sun cluster system administration guide for solaris os. Designs solaris 10 installation images on sun sparc and sun x86. This is not a veritas command, you need to become root and. Senior sun solaris unix administrator with 14 years experience in complex, secure, financial and classified environments.
Updated forceload statements in files changed by powerpath. I have solaris 10 installed on a sparc wanted to test. Vxvm veritas volume manager volume ioshipping functionality is turned off by default. This post describe about installation of vxvm on solaris node and initialization issues with vxvm after the package installation. There are two logical volume management packages commonly deployed in solaris implementations. Vm volume manager viom veritas infoscale operations manager. Provisioning veritas volume manager volumes as data disks for guest domains.