HP Dynamic Root Disk (DRD) manual Document Part Number DRD Version Supported Operating Systems

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Revision History

Document Part Number	DRD Version	Supported Operating Systems	Publication Date
5900-2100	A.3.10.*	HP-UX 11i v2	January 2012
		HP-UX 11i v3

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Contents Dynamic Root Disk A.3.10.* Administrators Guide Document Part Number DRD Version Supported Operating Systems Table of Contents Rehosting and unrehosting systems Troubleshooting DRD Support and other resourcesDRD commands Glossary IndexList of Figures List of Examples Conceptual overview Commands overviewAbout Dynamic Root Disk TerminologyDownloading and installing Dynamic Root Disk Locating disks Cloning the active system imageActive system image Locating disks on HP-UX 11i v2 systemsLocating disks on HP-UX 11i v3 Integrity systems # /usr/sbin/ioscan -fnkC disk# /usr/sbin/ioscan -m dsf Choosing a target disk Using other utilities to determine disk availabilityUsing DRD for limited disk availability checks Using drd clone to analyze disk size Creating the cloneCloning the active system image Example 2-7 The drd clone command output Success ErrorExample 2-8 The drd clone command output for SAN disk Adding or removing a diskUpdating and maintaining software on the clone DRD-Safe commands and PackagesSwinstall Swremove Swlist Swmodify Swverify Swjob DRD-Safe patches and the drdunsafepatchlist file Kctune Update-ux View Kcmodule Kconfig Mkkernel Swm jobUpdating and managing patches with drd runcmd Special considerations for firmware patches Patches with special installation instructionsUpdating and managing products with drd runcmd Viewing logs Accessing the inactive system image Mounting the inactive system imagePerforming administrative tasks on the inactive system image Enter the patches into a file such as Compare vxconfigbackup with the clone copy Unmounting the inactive system imageUnmounting the inactive system image Page Overview Quick start-basic synchronizationTrimming the list of files to be synchronized Drd sync commandDetermining the list of files in the booted volume group Files that have changed on the clone Copying the files to the inactive clone image Drd sync system shutdown script Page Activating the inactive system image Preparing the inactive system image to activate later# /opt/drd/bin/drd activate # /usr/bin/more /stand/bootconf l /dev/dsk/c2t0d0s2 Undoing activation of the inactive system imageActivating the inactive system image Undoing activation of the inactive system image Page Rehosting examples Rehosting and unrehosting systemsRehosting overview Rehosting a mirrored image Example 7-1 Provisioning a new systemUnrehosting overview # rm /var/opt/drd/registry/registry.xmlPage Troubleshooting DRD Page Support and other resources Contacting HPRelated information Typographic conventions New and changed information in this editionLocating this guide Find1 Page Drd activate command DRD commandsDRD command syntax Logfile=/var/opt/drd/drd.log HAalternatebootdisk=blockdevicespecialfileIgnoreunmountedfs=truefalse Logverbosity=4Verbosity=3 Default Drd clone commandReboot=truefalse Copyautofile optionTtargetdevicefile Copyautofile=truefalseblockdevicespecialfileEnforcedsa=truefalse Drd deactivate command Drd mount command Example A-1 File system mount points Drd rehost command Devicespecialfile -v-xextended option=value -x-?-Xoptionfile Extended options Drd runcmd command Extended options Drd status command Alternatebootdisk=blockdevicespecialfile Drd sync command Usr/sbin/swlist -l file, orDrd umount command Excludelist=Alternatebootdisk=blockdevicespecialfile Drd unrehost command Fsysteminformationfile Mirrordisk=blockdevicespecialfile Page Booted system GlossarySystem image Index Idisk partition, 10, 11 inactive system file system