Disk is hung by drd nothing works
claimed on ioscan fuser -c shows clean drd is insists the disk is busy DRD…
LVM
Capacity Planning
hardware
LVM
Performance
storage
Systems Administration
No downtme migration of mounted filesystem to new storage type
On LVM 1.0 Volume group, the task is no downtime storage migration. Hitachi to Pure…
Capacity Planning
LVM
Systems Administration
Puzzle of the day. Strict logical volume prevents you from extending a filesystem
Thanks to Veerappan Dhandapani of HCL Technologies for bringing me this problem You have 50…
LVM
Systems Administration
Fixing an inconsistent volume group with no downtime
I recently encountered a volume group that was part legacy devices, part dsf agile. root@protterdbsvr1:/root/shuffle>…
Systems Administration
VxVM Veritas Volume Manager
VxVM replace boot disk
Create a partition description file (Need to update the EFI and HPSP size below according…
hpvm
LVM
clean up procedure after ignite replication of hpvm host
This errror is created by Ignite replication of an hpvm system. The following checks device…
Systems Administration
EMC based system I/O layout tool
This tool is called syslayout.sh It works on superdome and rp8420 systems. It requires the…
LVM
Systems Administration
HP-UX Integrity Software mirror procedure
This was written by a former colleague. It is better than anything else I have…
Capacity Planning
Patching & Updates
Performance
Systems Administration
Case Study: Capacity & Migration planning for a small organization
This is our first case study. The events leading up to it occur between 1998…
LVM
Systems Administration
Creating Logical Volumes and Filesystems
Quick and Dirty Example here. In our last example, we created a volume group vg03.…
