Configuring an RPV server

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By configuring RPV servers, you make physical volumes available to remote RPV clients.You can configure and manage RPV servers for several physical volumes in the same operation.

About this task

To configure an RPV server:

Procedure

  1. Enter smit rpvserver
  2. In SMIT, select Add Remote Physical Volume Servers and press Enter.

    A picklist of all configured and available physical disks appears. These are the disks that are not assigned to a volume group. For example:

    Table 1. Available physical disks
    Physical Volume Physical Volume Identifier
    hdisk3 00010006859ece05
    hdisk4 0001000181810cff
    hdisk5 0001000685a10b38
    hdisk6 0001000685a23307
    hdisk7 0001000685a35768
  3. Select one or more physical disks for which you want to configure an RPV server and press Enter.
  4. Enter field values as follows:
    Table 2. RPV fields
    Field Value
    Physical Volume Identifiers The list of selected PVIDs displays here. An RPV server device is created for each physical volume.
    Remote Physical Volume Client Internet Address This is a service IP address from which a connection to the RPV client is allowed. Type in one or more addresses in this field, or press F4 to select from the list of known IP addresses defined on the remote node (that is, on the node on which the RPV client is configured).
    Configure Automatically at System Restart? No is the default. For GLVM for PowerHA® SystemMirror® Enterprise Edition, set this field to No.
    • If you select No, the system does not automatically configure the RPV server at system restart.
    • If you select Yes, the system automatically brings online the RPV server on the node at system restart. This puts the RPV server into the available state at system restart.
    Start New Devices Immediately? Yes is the default.
    • If you select Yes, the newly created RPV server devices are configured into the available state immediately.
    • If you select No, the RPV server devices remain in the defined state.
  5. Press Enter. The system configures an RPV server and displays the RPV server name and its current state: defined or available. Run the lspv command to view the RPVs that you have configured.

Results

Note: You can change the state of the RPV server later, using the Configure Defined Remote Physical Volume Servers panel in SMIT.