Thanks to: Myke Fisher John O'Reilly Darren Dunham and Mike Salehi Basically I followed my plan (outlined below) and it all worked well -- I've always been impressed with Veritas, but this was just obsurdly simple, and worked well. I'm really impressed that Veritas managed to put the mirror disk into a devalias in the OBP, I never even had to learn the full device name of the disk... Once again, the sunmanagers group comes through.... later all!! <topher's original message> scenario: Solaris 8 root disk is mirrored via Veritas Volume Manager 3.1.1(/ /usr /var all mirrored) root disk and mirror exist in a SUN StorEDGE MultiPack (so no hot swapping) mirror disk is named rootdisk2 devalias is defined in OBP for vx-rootdisk2 primary root disk has failed -- currently running on the mirror plan: shut down the system to OBM -- run 'boot vx-rootdisk2' to boot off of mirror remove the associate between the failing device and it's disk using "Remove a disk for replacement" function of vxdiskadm shut down the system (again) and replace the failed disk boot vx-rootdisk2 again use vxdiskadm "Replace a failed or removed disk" menu item to rebuild the primary disk question: does the plan look good? Has anyone done this before with fewer reboots? Should I move the 'mirrored' disk to the primary slot to boot, then just re-mirror it? Any 'gotchas', 'thoughts', or 'considers' would be appreciated. Please don't assume anything -- if it's not listed, I'm not planning to be doing it. If it's not listed, I likely haven't done it in the past.... _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Sun Jul 28 22:18:17 2002
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