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9.2 New and changed information in this edition

The following additions and changes have been made for this edition:

•The following information has been updated:

—Chapter 1 About Dynamic Root Disk

—Chapter 3 Updating and maintaining software on the clone

—Chapter 5 Synchronizing the inactive clone image with the booted system

—Chapter 8 Troubleshooting DRD

—Chapter 9 Support and other resources

—Appendix A DRD commands

9.3Locating this guide

This guide is available from the following sources:

•The HP-UX Dynamic Root Disk - Manuals page at http://www.hp.com/go/drd-docs

•The September 2010 HP-UX Instant Information media (CD or DVD) that is included with both the September 2010 HP-UX Application Release (AR) media and September 2010 HP-UX Operating Environment (OE) media for both HP-UX 11i v2 and 11i v3.

IMPORTANT: Check the HP-UX Dynamic Root Disk - Manuals page (http://www.hp.com/go/ drd-docs) for the latest revision of this guide. The guide on the September 2010 HP-UX Instant Information media is an initial version and may contain outdated information.

9.4 Related information

For more information about HP Dynamic Root Disk, including the latest versions of manuals, product information, and white papers, visit http://www.hp.com/go/drd.

9.5 Typographic conventions

This document uses the following typographic conventions.

Book Title	Title of a book or other document.
Linked Title	Title that is a hyperlink to a book or other document.
http://www.hp.com	A website address that is a hyperlink to the site.
Command	Command name or qualified command phrase.
user input	Commands and other text that you type.
computer output	Text displayed by the computer.
Enter	The name of a keyboard key. Note that Return and Enter both refer
	to the same key. A sequence such as Ctrl+A indicates that you must
	hold down the key labeled Ctrl while pressing the A key.
variable	The name of an environment variable, for example PATH or errno.
value	A value that you may replace in a command or function, or information
	in a display that represents several possible values.

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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 Using DRD for limited disk availability checks Using other utilities to determine disk availabilityChoosing a target disk 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 diskSwinstall Swremove Swlist Swmodify Swverify Swjob DRD-Safe commands and PackagesUpdating and maintaining software on the clone Updating and managing patches with drd runcmd Kctune Update-ux View Kcmodule Kconfig Mkkernel Swm jobDRD-Safe patches and the drdunsafepatchlist file Updating and managing products with drd runcmd Patches with special installation instructionsSpecial considerations for firmware patches 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 synchronizationDetermining the list of files in the booted volume group Drd sync commandTrimming the list of files to be synchronized 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 overview Rehosting and unrehosting systemsRehosting examples 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 HPLocating this guide New and changed information in this editionRelated information Typographic conventions Find1 Page DRD command syntax DRD commandsDrd activate command 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