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  • 1.  SOS: unable varyonvg (0516-013 varyonvg)

    Posted Sat June 17, 2006 08:20 PM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    entironment:
    1 FAStT500
    2 p650,PC server
    3 AIX 5.1 ,windows2003

    problem:
    There is a Logical Disk for p650(aix5.1) on FAStT500,Windows 2003 prompt find new disk and "Initialize new disks" When windows2003 Start ,then I select "Initialize new disks" because of my mistake ,the Logical disk,however, is not used for windows2003 but for p650 (aix5.1). Now there are a error "0516-013 varyonvg: The volume group cannot be varied on because there are no good copies of the descriptor area" when I varyonvg on p650. All data are lost!!!!

    Everybody help me!


  • 2.  Re: SOS: unable varyonvg (0516-013 varyonvg)

    Posted Mon June 19, 2006 03:28 AM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    mhhhh....

    is there a pvid displayed in lspv ?
    lqueryvg -At -p hdiskX


  • 3.  Re: SOS: unable varyonvg (0516-013 varyonvg)

    Posted Mon June 19, 2006 09:44 AM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    1. lspv
    hdisk1 00519a4aafba13d9 rootvg
    hdisk4 00519a4ae664b214 None
    hdisk0 00519a4a4556f939 rootvg
    hdisk2 00519a4aba8962f1 emisvg2
    hdisk3 00519a4ab51523cd None
    1. lqueryvg -At -p /dev/hdisk4
    Max LVs: 256
    PP Size: 29
    Free PPs: 136
    LV count: 5
    PV count: 1
    Total VGDAs: 2
    Conc Allowed 32
    MAX PPs per 1016
    MAX PVs: 32
    Conc Autovar 0
    Varied on Co 0
    Logical: 00519a9a00004c00000000f925f4737a.1 loglv02 1
    00519a9a00004c00000000f925f4737a.2 lv00 1
    00519a9a00004c00000000f925f4737a.3 lv01 1
    00519a9a00004c00000000f925f4737a.4 lv02 1
    00519a9a00004c00000000f925f4737a.6 mldata1 1
    Physical: 00519a4ab5139c35 2 0
    Total PPs: 599
    LTG size: 128
    HOT SPARE: 0
    AUTO SYNC: 0
    VG PERMISSIO 0


  • 4.  Re: SOS: unable varyonvg (0516-013 varyonvg)

    Posted Fri June 23, 2006 08:44 AM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    I am thinking you are SOL. When Windows initializes new disk, it is corrupted from AIX point of view. I do not think there is anything you can do to recover except rebuild volume group and restore.


  • 5.  Re: SOS: unable varyonvg (0516-013 varyonvg)

    Posted Sun June 25, 2006 08:31 AM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    Your volume group is unrecoverable. Windows disk manager - which is really an OEM of VERITAS disk manager, cannot coexist with AIX LVM since they use the same sectors of the disk to record header information.

    You will need to rebuild the volume group and restore from a backup.

    Fred Sherman
    http://www.pSeriesTech.Org
    Where pSeries professionals gather


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