V-5-1-19179 – Diskgroup import failed with an error message “import failed: License has expired or is not available for operation” Problem Description Diskgroup fails to import with a message: license has expired or is not available for operation Error Message VxVM vxdg ERROR V-5-1-19179 Disk group loc_ctm-dg: import failed: License has expired or is not …
Veritas Volume Manager is so vast and need good level of knowledge before fixing any private region related issues. Troubleshooting in Veritas Volume Manager is not that easy and needs very careful approach and may be assistance needed from Veritas Support. Especially related to issues with private region corruption or needs to be fixed with …
I am going to share about RAID Levels in VxVM in this post. Let us understand a little bit about RAID. Two veritas commands are going to be used heavily for volume management and display that is vxassist and vxprint. What is RAID in VxVM? RAID is basically a Redundant Array of Independent Disks. RAID …
I am going to share the procedure for how to change the DG name in the veritas volume manager. During the journey, I would like to share major activities performed with DG frequently by the system administrators during their work on the Veritas File System. Those will be really additional benefits while addressing directly how …
How to check disk size in VxVM In this article, we are going to discuss how to check disk size in VxVM.There are many popular free volume manager available like LVM SVM as widely used also. VxVM has been a problem solver for many highly used operating systems in the enterprise section. VXVM is a …
How to check DG size in Veritas File System In this article, we are going to share how to check DG size in Veritas File System. If you have worked on Veritas Volume Manager earlier you may be aware that DG stands for Disk Group in Veritas File System. Like LVM Logical Volume Manager in …
We are going to discuss how to migrate ldom from one server to another. We will illustrate the steps necessary to migrate from one server to another. The guest ldom ldom01 will be migrated from cdom04 to cdom03. How to migrate ldom from one server to another. We are going to see step by step …
We are going to discuss how to unencapsulate the rootdisk in vxvm on Solaris. Have you ever in need of rootdisk unencapsulation ever? the situation may be anything like vxvm is no more bootable or you have the plan to migrate from VxVM to SVM or any other situation where you need to un-encapsulate root …
Disk group has no valid configuration copies import failed In this article, we are going to discuss the disk group has no valid configuration copies import failed while trying to import the disk group in veritas. We will see how we can recover and import the disk group in the present scenario. The sample output with …
In this article, we are going to understand how to stop LLT and GAB in VCS properly and start them and verify cluster status. This may be needed as part of a troubleshooting effort while investigating issues in the cluster. So let us understand briefly what is LLT and GAB and what is their role …
In this article, we are going to discuss how to add disk to ldom. So let us start the journey. Let me share the environment details so we have a better understanding. Environment: Solaris 10/VxVM for Volume Management/Hitachi Storage/Control Domain Primary & Secondary Domain configured for availability If you are using Control Domains in your …
File System expansion and reduction and removal is a kind of routine task for system administrators. So let’s see the entire process of how to remove veritas file system and reclaim storage. SCENARIO There are many scenarios when you need to remove the existing veritas file systems to reclaim storage for cost-saving to firms. For instance, …
