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snirmal123

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January 30th, 2009 12:00

VxvM relayout problem with DMX-3

Hello,

I was trying to relayout a striped plex to striped one with addition of nvols using vxassit, but it gives these erros

#vxassist -g relayout layout=stripe ncol=

VxVM vxassist ERROR V-5-1-3119 Operation not valid for volume
VxVM vxassist ERROR V-5-1-4037 Relayout operation aborted. (20)

The hsot is running Solaris 9, SE 6.5 and VCS 4.1 MP2

Any idea about what could be wrong?

Thanks in advance
Sam

xe2sdc

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February 2nd, 2009 05:00

Please have a look at primus solution emc30774 and eventually post more details on the error (look for related events in "messages").

snirmal123

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February 2nd, 2009 09:00

Hello Stefano,

Thanks for your response. I referred the primus solution. It seems that the -o override option was used and also the volume was mirrored as a part of the relayout.

I am not sure why and how safe to use -o override option. I guess there is some internal check done by vxassist with the storage to ensure the operation is safe.

Is it required to mirror the volume for replayout to work from striped-striped change?

In the message file, I see theses messages but not sure if they are related to relayput operation.

vxdmp: [ID 917986 kern.notice] NOTICE: VxVM vxdmp V-5-0-112 disabled path 32/0xc658 belonging to the dmpnode 235/0x300
vxdmp: [ID 736771 kern.notice] NOTICE: VxVM vxdmp V-5-0-148 enabled path 32/0xc658 belonging to the dmpnode 235/0x300

The storage is DMX-3


Please advise.

Thanks
Sam

xe2sdc

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February 2nd, 2009 11:00

Sam unfortunatly I'm not a Vx-expert .. It's hard to guess the real problem since you are posting a lot of symptoms but I can't find the root cause ..

If you fear -o option, you can always open an informative SR and ask our experts to give you a formal answer. Or you can wait a little and wait for some more answers in this forum :-)

KD8EWE

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May 1st, 2009 08:00

This error is returned when the original disk is an EMC disk.

Remove the VRTSfas package if present and restart vxconfigd (vxconfigd -k).

Relayout operations require temporary disk space. This temporary space is allocated from the free space available in the disk group that contains the volume being relayed out, and is in the form of a mirrored (two-plex) sub-volume. The size of the temporary space mainly depends on the size and type of the volume being relayed out.

The relayout operation fails to run since there is no space available for the temporary two-plex sub-volume. Only one disk in the disk group has free space. There are two ways to resolve this problem. One is to add an extra disk to the disk group. The second option is to try and shrink the volume (and VERITAS File System file system) so that some free space will become available on disk01 and disk02. This will enable the relayout operation to create the temporary sub-volume and commence successfully.

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