Depending on your setup, theres a legal way of running veritas volume manager on solaris if you dont mind a powerconsuming, noisy, and heavy hardware dongle dubbing as a fcal disc array. How to install veritas volume manager software and. The specific processor i am interested in emulating is a t4. I have to upgrade solaris from 7 to 8 on a server which has veritas volume manager.
Dec 10, 2006 transitives quicktransit for solarissparctolinuxx8664 solution enables applications that have been compiled for the solaris on sparc to run on certified 64bit hp proliant platforms running linux without requiring any source code or binary changes, hp reported. Run the following commands to set up ips repository for veritas sparc packages. Oracle solaris cluster software supports the following methods to configure the root disk group. Veritas solutions for windows clustering veritas cluster server 2. Emc host connectivity guide for oracle solaris dell technologies. Volume manager on solaris, patch detail sort veritas. Veritas volume manager administrators guide solaris. However on the symantec site i see veritas foundation basic, server, etc but did not see veritas volume manager. Physical objects are direct mappings to physical disks 2. To enable mpxio support for dell emc storage devices on a sparcx86 server running. The key word in that definition is logical and the reference to a volume requires a considerable definition in itself. So i would like to know if i upgrade to solaris 10 0606. The vxdisk px list cli does not support some basic vxvm attributes, nor does it allow a user to specify multiple attributes in a specific sequence.
To encapsulate the root disk you need two free disk slices as well as free. Installing and configuring veritas volume manager sparc. How to install veritas volume manager software sun. Learn how to integrate, operate, veritas storage foundation in a solaris environment. Replacing a failed disk under veritas volume manager vxvm using vxdiskadm. Solaris 10 veritas volume manager solutions experts exchange. The root disk of the node you install has two free unassigned partitions. For this and all the future tutorials i will be using a test box created in vmware workstation.
Jun 04, 2011 veritas volume manager is a storage management application by symantec, which allows you to manage physical disks as logical devices called volumes. Vxvm veritas volume manager training 10 of 12in this post, we are going to see traditional mirror breakoff snapshot. Solaris upgrade with veritas volume manager oracle. The a5000 disc enclosure series named photon had a vxvm license attached to it. Operations manager filter, view and download vom addons.
Basic familiarity with veritas volume manager vxvm and storage management. Insert the vxvm cdrom in the cdrom drive on the node. I like this post, same like this do u have any book or videos please send me the. New system administrator resume format in word free download. Apr 16, 20 this post describe about installation of vxvm on solaris node and initialization issues with vxvm after the package installation. Documentation home sun cluster software installation guide for solaris os chapter 4 sparc. Do you know where i can download veritas volume manager for solaris. Perform this procedure to install veritas volume manager vxvm software on each node that you want to install with vxvm. Technical support symantec technical support maintains support centers globally. X86 oracle solaris operating system15 oracle solaris cluster software8 maximum number of nodes volume manager software6,9 multipath driver9 host adapters san switches 4 oracle solaris svm veritas vxvm 4. Have available your vxvm installation documentation.
The steps are basically identical for the other releases. Vm solaris 10 or physical machine with solaris 10,vxvm 5. Since veritas has been bought by symantec, i have been trying to figure out their naming convention for the veritas products. Note to create the root disk group by encapsulating the root disk, do not use this procedure. It is wellsuited to hosts with a small dec 18, 2008 solaris 10 commad line guide configure tape and storage disk mirroring using solaris volume manager 5 responses to solaris 10 commad line guide adding new disk. These packages are available from the oracle software downloads page. Is there any free version of veritas volume manager available, if yes please. The code is modified to free vxvm allocated memory after split ios competed. Enter a valid license key matching the functionality in use on the systems enable keyless licensing and manage the systems with a. All sparc trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or. Veritas storage foundation release notes solaris 5. I have solaris 10 installed on a sparc wanted to test veritas volume manager to manage the disks. Veritas volume manager vxvm software is widely used for logical volume management on systems with large amounts of data.
This can be used for practicing various volume manager commands for budding system administrators download size is 840mb splitted across three files. Veritas volume manager vxvm might report false serial split. How to install veritas volume manager software and encapsulate the root disk. Veritas volume manager on solaris 10x86 oracle community. There are two logical volume management packages commonly deployed in solaris implementations. Oracle solaris operating system oracle solaris 10 106 or later oracle solaris cluster software 3. Done veritas volume manager install completed successfully veritas volume manager 6. To use ai to install the solaris 11 operating system and veritas infoscale products. Unlike other packages installation,we have installer available in storage foundation bundle to minimize the complex. Jan 24, 2003 comparison of solaris volume manager software and veritas volume manager. At the time of this writing, solaris 8 is the most commonly deployed version of solaris, so well use that as the basis for this example. How to install veritas volume manager software and encapsulate the root disk to install vxvm software and encapsulate the root disk in one operation. Hello friends, i need to test some of the solaris 10 concepts and veritas volume manager. How to install veritas volume manager software only.
Obtain any veritas volume manager vxvm license keys that you need to install. You should check the supported operating system matrix for storage foundation to see what they support. Hi all, i have created a vmware appliance with solaris 10 and veritas voulme manager 5. To perform this snapshot,we need free space equal to volume. Veritas volume replicator planning and tuning guide solaris 5. Disksuite newly referred to as solaris volume manager is available for free with the solaris operating system.
This post describe about installation of vxvm on solaris node and. Veritas storage foundation release notes solaris oracle. Option 5 under vxdiskadm menu can be used to replace a failed diks with a new one. Beginners vxvm for solaris installation of vxvm unixrock.
Vxvm uses two types of objects to perform the storage management 1. To enable the vxvm cluster feature, you must install vxvm on all. Veritas cluster server release notes thesoftwaredescribedinthisbookisfurnishedunderalicenseagreementandmaybeused only in accordance with the terms of the agreement. Veritas volume replicator planning and tuning guide. Being poor, i dont have a spare sparc server lying around on which i can install solaris 11, so i will need to emulate one on x86, probably using qemu, but if there are other tools i can use im open to suggestions. Svm software provides mechanisms to configure physical slices of harddrive into logical volumes.
Let us see how you can install vxvm in a solaris 10 virtual machine. The solaris volume manager svm is a free component of solaris 9 and solaris 10. The veritas volume manager vvm or vxvm is a proprietary logical volume manager from veritas contents. Here is step by step guide for vxvm installation with putty output. Until the introduction of soft partitioning in the solaris 9 operating environment, the logical volumes. Ok, i already found the necessary information to make this upgrade. Installing and configuring vxvm software oracle solaris cluster. So no need to use pkgadd commands unless until there is an issue with the installer. Beginners lesson veritas volume manager for solaris. I can then use the emulated sparc to run solaris 11 i hope.
Volume manager on solaris, patch detail sort home veritas. Technical supports primary role is to respond to specific queries about product features. Comparison of solaris volume manager software and veritas. Veritas volume manager administrators guide thesoftwaredescribedinthisbookisfurnishedunderalicenseagreementandmaybeused only in accordance with the terms of the. If the customer had moved the dump device to c0t1d0s1 before executing any veritas options or commands they would not have had this. Technicalsupport symantectechnicalsupportmaintainssupportcentersglobally. This training provides instruction on operational management procedures for veritas volume manager vxvm and you will learn how to install and configure veritas volume manager and how to manage disks, disk groups, and volumes by using from the command line. The vxvm free disk pool contains disks that have been initialized but that have not yet been assigned to a disk group. Become superuser on a cluster node that you intend to install with vxvm. The command vxdctl enable should be run, to rescan the host for any newlyadded disks. How can i set up a vm of solaris 11 sparc on windows x86.
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