Figure 24 Disk selection – add/remove disks dialog box

The More Info screen is made available on the Disk Selection – Add/Remove Disks dialog box too, to validate selections and help make the change to the agile naming model.

Support for >2 TB boot disk

Starting with the HP-UX 11i v3 OE Update March 2013 release, the maximum size of the boot disk has been increased from 2 TB to 16 TB on HP Integrity systems. (HP 9000 systems have supported the boot disk or root volume group up to the 2 TB maximum size since the initial HP-UX 11i v3 OE February 2007 release.)

The >2 TB boot disk support is available with Logical Volume Manager (LVM) layout and currently not available on VxVM and Whole Disk layouts. To configure >2 TB disk as boot disk, you have to navigate to Basic tab -> Filesystem -> select Logical Volume Manager (LVM) with VxFS from the itool interface.

Update the Ignite-UX software on the Ignite-UX servers with the Ignite-UX bits.

NOTE: The Ignite-UX software is delivered with the HP-UX 11i v3 OE Update March 2013 release or higher for configuring the boot disk >2 TB in size.

NOTE: Support for >2 TB boot disk support is available with HP-UX 11i v3 OE Update March 2013 release or higher to HP Integrity systems, and this feature is not available and supported on the HP-UX versions earlier than OE Update March 2013 release.

During the cold installation, the default LVM Volume Group Version set by Ignite-UX is 1.0. This limits the size of the boot size to 2 TB, and the remaining space on the disk will be unused. To utilize the full disk capacity beyond 2 TB (and up to 16 TB max) for boot disk with LVM, you have to update the LVM’s Volume Group Version to 2.2 or later versions. You can do this by navigating to Filesystem tab > Advanced Tasks > Group parameters tab > LVM Version in the Ignite-UX itool user interface. For more information, see LVM Volume Group Version 2.2 at: http://www.hp.com/ go/hpux-core-docs

The VxFS File System size chosen for configuring any volume is limited to 2 TB during the installation and any size configured beyond 2 TB will be capped to a maximum of 2 TB. You can manually extend the size of the VxFS File System to >2 TB, post installation, if Online JFS License product is installed on the system.

Practical considerations

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