Monthly Archives: January 2016

In the event that the paths to a given device suffer a (transient) failure with the SAN (array), the VxVM device will be reported as “failed was” by vxdisk list. Solaris example Unless the device is accessible via the OS … Continue reading →

Issue How to recover VERITAS Volume Manager configuration information while disk group import failed as Duplicate record in configuration Error # vxdg -C import oradgVxVM vxdg ERROR V-5-1-587 Disk group oradg: import failed: No valid disk found containing disk group … Continue reading →

NOTE these notes where taken after a call with Symantec please don’t run this without speaking to Veritas first. PROBLEM: You are getting the following error when importing a disk group # vxdg -C import kchdg VxVM vxdg ERROR V-5-1-587 … Continue reading →

CFS allows the same file system to be simultaneously mounted on multiple nodes in the cluster. The CFS is designed with master/slave architecture. Though any node can initiate an operation to create, delete, or resize data, the master node carries … Continue reading →

# /usr/sbin/luxadm -e port Found path to 4 HBA ports /devices/pci@1e,600000/SUNW,qlc@3/fp@0,0:devctl              CONNECTED/devices/pci@1e,600000/SUNW,qlc@3,1/fp@0,0:devctl            NOT CONNECTED/devices/pci@1e,600000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0:devctl              CONNECTED/devices/pci@1e,600000/SUNW,qlc@4,1/fp@0,0:devctl            NOT CONNECTED Your SAN administrator will ask for the WWNs for Zoning. Here are some steps I use to get that information: # prtconf -vp … Continue reading →

Problem What to do when “vxdisk list” shows status of  diskgroup as‘online dgdisabled’. Solution DEVICE       TYPE      DISK         GROUP        STATUSc0t0d0s2      sliced     disk03       … Continue reading →

When a system encounters a problem with a volume or a plex, or if Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) has any reason to believe that the data is not synchronized, VxVM changes the kernel state, KSTATE and state, STATE, of the … Continue reading →

Quick Recap about ZFS Pools Simple and Striped Pool (Equivalent to Raid-0  and Data is Non redundant) Mirrored Pool (Equivalent to Raid-1) Raidz pool (Equivalent to Single Parity Raid 5 – Can with stand up to single disk failure) Raidz-2 … Continue reading →

With version 11.1 Oracle added OpenSCAP to its Solaris IPS repository.OpenSCAP is using NIST standards to verify the compliance of a system. Weather it is about installed packages or certain system configurations. This sounds really great but it is not … Continue reading →

One reoccuring question from customers is “How large should I size the dump device? “.   Since Solaris 11.2 there is a really comfortable way to get a number. You can use dumpadm to get an estimate of dump device size:   … Continue reading →