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AIX rootvg failure monitoring
AIX has a new “critical volume group” capability which will monitor for the loss or failure of a volume group. You can apply this to any volume group, including rootvg. If applied to rootvg, then you can monitor for the loss of the root volume group. This feature may be useful if your AIX LPAR experiences a loss of SAN connectivity e.g. total loss of access to SAN storage and/or all SAN switches. Typically, when this happens, AIX will continue to run, in memory for a period of time and will not immediately crash. Often you... [More]
Tags: failure gibson aix chris monitoring vg group volume critical cgaix chvg rootvg |
Working with AIX scalable volume groups.
Scalable volume groups first appeared in AIX 5.3. They allow
a maximum of 1024 physical volumes and 4096 logical volumes per volume group.
This is pretty cool for large systems. In the ‘old days’ we could end up in
situations where we’d reached the maximum PV count (32 or 128) for a VG and
have to create a new VG to work around the issue. I use scalable VGs for all my new large AIX system builds. The following command will create a scalable VG (named svg ) on hdisk4. You’ll notice that MAX
PVs is set to 1024 and MAX LVs is set to 256.... [More]
Tags: gibson vg aix manager lvm pv chris chvg hdisk max physical scalable lv groups mkvg group logical volume |
Working with AIX scalable volume groups - Part 2 - converting to scalable.
Following on
from my previous post, on working with scalable VGs. https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/cgaix/entry/working_with_aix_scalable_volume_groups1?lang=en You may find
yourself in a situation where you’d like to convert a VG to scalable. For example,
you might start off with a normal VG i.e. one that can support a maximum of 256
LVs and 32 PVs. # mkvg -s
512M -y myvg hdisk5 myvg # lsvg myvg VOLUME
GROUP: myvg VG IDENTIFIER: 00f6027300004c0000000133aa24d1f6 VG
STATE:... [More]
Tags: aix lvm chvg pv gibson convert -g mkvg manager hdisk scalable chris conversion group groups volume max vg physical lv logical |
