Contents 13

Chapter 12

Administering hot-relocation

 

 

How hot-relocation works ................................................................................

380

 

Partial disk failure mail messages ...........................................................

383

 

Complete disk failure mail messages ......................................................

384

 

How space is chosen for relocation .........................................................

384

 

Configuring a system for hot-relocation ........................................................

385

 

Displaying spare disk information ..................................................................

386

 

Marking a disk as a hot-relocation spare .......................................................

387

 

Removing a disk from use as a hot-relocation spare ....................................

388

 

Excluding a disk from hot-relocation use ......................................................

388

 

Making a disk available for hot-relocation use .............................................

389

 

Configuring hot-relocation to use only spare disks .....................................

390

 

Moving and unrelocating subdisks .................................................................

390

 

Moving and unrelocating subdisks using vxdiskadm ..........................

391

 

Moving and unrelocating subdisks using vxassist ...............................

392

 

Moving and unrelocating subdisks using vxunreloc ............................

392

 

Restarting vxunreloc after errors ...........................................................

394

 

Modifying the behavior of hot-relocation ......................................................

395

Chapter 13

Administering cluster functionality

 

 

Overview of cluster volume management .....................................................

398

 

Private and shared disk groups ...............................................................

401

 

Activation modes of shared disk groups ................................................

402

 

Connectivity policy of shared disk groups .............................................

404

 

Effect of disk connectivity on cluster reconfiguration ........................

409

 

Limitations of shared disk groups ...........................................................

409

 

Cluster initialization and configuration .........................................................

410

 

Cluster reconfiguration .............................................................................

410

 

Volume reconfiguration ............................................................................

413

 

Node shutdown ...........................................................................................

416

 

Node abort ...................................................................................................

417

 

Cluster shutdown .......................................................................................

417

 

Multiple host failover configurations .............................................................

417

 

Import lock ..................................................................................................

418

 

Failover ........................................................................................................

418

 

Corruption of disk group configuration .................................................

419

 

Administering VxVM in cluster environments .............................................

420

 

Requesting node status and discovering the master node ..................

420

 

Determining if a disk is shareable ...........................................................

421

 

Listing shared disk groups .......................................................................

421

 

Creating a shared disk group ...................................................................

422

 

Importing disk groups as shared .............................................................

423