Originally posted by: mnn

Does anybody doing cloning with 2 disks on same server using symclone.After I keep the clone in split state and reboot the server ,disks comes up with same pvid's.
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Originally posted by: shargus

So, you made an identical copy of your disks and your problem is, you made an identical copy of your disks.

When we make clone copies of volume groups, what we have to do is present the clone copy disks to a different server, run recreatevg to put a new vgid and new pvids on the clone disks, exportvg, rmdev, then present the disks to the first server and do an importvg with a new vg name.

The fact that your clone disks has the same vgid and pvids as the original disks (that are still active) is confusing AIX's LVM.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Use the Google Luke:
http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/FLASH10551

Way easier to do it on the same system instead of remasking the LUNs to a different host. As it says, its well documented. recreatevg is your friend.
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Originally posted by: shargus

Every time I've tried that method, recreatevg errors out with "hdiskX is already part of a volume group" or something similar.
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