HP-UX Breaking Mirror and Extending LVM
Particularly HPUX. Not really my cup of tea since it not open-source but interesting enough though.
We had one machine with mirrored harddisks with one being faulty that needs removal.
Break mirror procedure..
1. Remove the mirror on the Logical Volume affected within the Volume Group
lvreduce -m 0 /dev/vg01/lvol1 /dev/dsk/c2t0d0
lvreduce -m 0 /dev/vg01/lvol2 /dev/dsk/c2t0d0
2. Now remove the Volume Group from the Physical Volume that is targeted for removal
vgreduce /dev/vg01 /dev/dsk/c2t0d0
3. Finally remove the Physical Volume from the Physical Disk
Please note the ‘r’.. ‘r’ stands for physical disk, while the one without is the physical volume..
pvremove /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0Please note the ‘r’.. ‘r’ stands for physical disk, while the one without is the physical volume..
Restore mirror procedure…
1. First, let’s verify things
ioscan -funC disk
pvdisplay /dev/dsk/c1t0d0 # get lvm info of existing disk.
pvdisplay /dev/dsk/c2t0d0 # get err, no lvm def on it, raw disk.
2. Now we create the Physical Volume within the Physical Disk and extend the Volume Group onto it.
pvcreate /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0 # add physical disk to be used by LVM
vgextend /dev/vg01 /dev/dsk/c2t0d0 # incorporate new disk to existing vg00
2a. If you’re recreating a bootable disk, the commands below must be used instead -
pvcreate -B /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0 # add physical disk to be used by LVM and make it bootable
vgextend /dev/vg01 /dev/dsk/c2t0d0 # incorporate new disk to existing vg00
mkboot -a "hpux -lq /stand/vmunix" /dev/dsk/c2t0d0 # install the bootloader
3. Check and verify!
strings /etc/lvmtab # see new disk used by lvm
4. The next steps will actually perform the mirror, and it will fail if -m mirroring option is not activated with valid license
lvextend -m 1 /dev/vg01/lvol1 /dev/dsk/c2t0d0 # add mirror for lvol1
lvextend -m 1 /dev/vg01/lvol2 /dev/dsk/c2t0d0 # add mirror for lvol2
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