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>…
LVM
Systems Administration
LVM
Systems Administration
VxVM Veritas Volume Manager
How to not blow up a vxvm boot HP-UX system when breaking the mirror
This is an improvement to fixing the problems if you do blow things up. Click…
hardware
LVM
Scripting
Systems Administration
Online JFS filesystem expansion without umount
This requires add in software from Veritas/Symmantec that can be expensive on HP-UX. Lets say…
LVM
Systems Administration
VxVM Veritas Volume Manager
Taking apart a blown up vxvm boot system
Scenario: vxvm boot system shut down decommissioned. It was left off for over a year.…
LVM
Systems Administration
VxVM Veritas Volume Manager
Force umount when a file system won’t umount
Lets say we have a file system mounted as /stuck umount /stuck Mount Point busy.…
LVM
Scripting
Systems Administration
awk trick of the day(month?) parsing bdf output. awk with if else logic
Ever try and do system reporting based on bdf? Annoying as all heck that sometimes…
LVM
Systems Administration
VxVM Veritas Volume Manager
Enabling a falsely disabled OnlineJFS license
Older versions of HP-UX 11.11,11.23 and 11.31 do suffer from the OnlineJFS license disabling itself.…
LVM
Patching & Updates
Systems Administration
VxVM Veritas Volume Manager
Migrate VXVM booted system to LVM
From the HP-UX Veritas Administration guide, buried on page 106 This example shows how to…
LVM
Scripting
Systems Administration
setboot hardware path to legacy hardware path. A converter.
HP-UX 11.23 setboot provides output only including the hardware path (ioscan -H). When calculating DRD…
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…
