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  • 1.  Symclone

    Posted Sat March 26, 2011 10:26 AM

    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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  • 2.  Re: Symclone

    Posted Mon March 28, 2011 04:57 PM

    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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  • 3.  Re: Symclone

    Posted Mon March 28, 2011 05:04 PM

    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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  • 4.  Re: Symclone

    Posted Mon March 28, 2011 06:21 PM

    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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