Adding disks to a disk pack with Veritas Volume Manager

[1] Notified QTV members that pushing contents would not be available.

[2] Worked on stge.qtv.apple.com first

  1. Diabled auto-update cron jobs.

  2. Added disks to stage.qtv.
    1. > touch /reconfigure
    2. > shutdown -g0 -i0 -y (to shutdown the server)
    3. Checked stage.qtv is powered off.
    4. Installed 3 disks to a disk pack.
    5. Powered On.


  3. Configured Veritas Volume Manager.
    1. > format (to find exact disk numbers).

          <eg>	
          4. c1t4d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248>
                /pci@1f,0/pci@1/pci@1/SUNW,isptwo@4/sd@4,0
          5. c1t5d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248>
                /pci@1f,0/pci@1/pci@1/SUNW,isptwo@4/sd@5,0
          6. c1t6d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248>
          
    2. > vxdiskadd c1t4d0 c1t5d0 c1t6d0
    3. > vxprint -ht
      Observe these 2 lines
          v  data         fsgen        ENABLED  ACTIVE   100663296 SELECT   -
          pl data-01      data         ENABLED  ACTIVE   100663296 CONCAT   -   RW
      	
    4. > vxassist -g rootdg growby data 100663296
    5. vxprint -ht
      Observe these 2 lines
          v  data         fsgen        ENABLED  ACTIVE   201326592 SELECT   -
          pl data-01      data         ENABLED  ACTIVE   201326592 CONCAT   -   RW
      	
    6. > /usr/lib/fs/ufs/mkfs -F ufs -M /qttv /dev/vx/rdsk/rootdg/data 201326592
      This will expand ufs file system on volume.
    7. > df -k (to check again)


  4. Enabled auto-update cron jobs.

[3] Worked on stream1.qtv.apple.com.

  1. Made stream1.qtv out of service from local director.
  2. Added disks and configured Veritas ... similar to the above steps.
  3. Made stream1.qtv back in service on local director.

[4] Worked on stream2.qtv.apple.com.


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