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  • 1.  VIOS IVM - problems with virtual disk while creating new partition.

    Posted Thu January 22, 2009 03:34 PM

    Originally posted by: rb7


    I have P6 on which I installed VIOS 1.5.2.0. I can login to IVM.
    $ lspv
    NAME PVID VG STATUS
    hdisk0 00052172226914f6 rootvg active
    hdisk1 00052172ff6a2bf3 vol1 active
    hdisk2 00052172e414b900 None
    hdisk3 00052172f4e72bea rootvg active
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  • 2.  Re: VIOS IVM - problems with virtual disk while creating new partition.

    Posted Thu January 22, 2009 03:50 PM

    Originally posted by: rb7


    Sorry for the eariler post, clicked "Post Message" too quickly.

    So here is the complete problem:

    I created new storage pool in View/Modify Virtual Storage called vol1(136GB). Then
    I created Virtual Disk (named disk1; lvm based;50GB) from that Storage Pool (vol1). Now when I try to assign
    this Virtual Disk while creating a new partition then I get the following error


    Problems occurred while processing the data. A summary of all problems for this page are listed below. Additional details for each problem may be located next to the field causing the problem.
    The partition was successfuly created, however resource disk1 was not assigned to the partition. The following errors were received:
    But there are no errors. The partition is created but no disks are assigned to it.

    I tried recreating Storage pools, virtual disk etc but no luck. I even tried formatting the whole physical vol hdisk1 using diag but that did not work either. I also tried hdisk2 and it had the same problem. Its a brand new box so I don't think that the disks are bad. I have many other p5 working with similar configs just fine.

    Any ideas what is going wrong here?

    Thanks,
    /R.
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  • 3.  Re: VIOS IVM - problems with virtual disk while creating new partition.

    Posted Thu January 22, 2009 05:50 PM

    Originally posted by: bassemir


    Not sure what is happening here. What do you see if you telnet to the ivm partition and run:

    oem_setup_env
    lsvg -l vol1

    I would expect to see disk1 listed as a logical volume on volume group vol1. Do you see anything strange?

    Does th ivm partition indicate any errors? use the errpt command

    Rich
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  • 4.  Re: VIOS IVM - problems with virtual disk while creating new partition.

    Posted Fri January 23, 2009 04:40 PM

    Originally posted by: rb7


    Rich,
    Thanks for your reply. I reinstalled the box again. So lspv would now show you
    1. lspv
    hdisk0 00052172226914f6 vol1 active
    hdisk1 00052172ff6a2bf3 rootvg active
    hdisk2 00052172e414b900 rootvg active
    hdisk3 00052172f4e72bea None
    Here is the output that you requested

    1. lsvg -l vol1
    vol1:
    LV NAME TYPE LPs PPs PVs LV STATE MOUNT POINT
    disk1 jfs 360 360 1 closed/syncd N/A

    Only thing that I see is LV state is closed/syncd. In my other boxes I have LV state as open/syncd. I even created a file system mounted it on the LV (disk 1) and the state was changed to open/syncd. But it did not help either as I has not able to associate this vdisk to the virtual partition.

    Don't see anything in errpt's output.

    Regards,
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  • 5.  Re: VIOS IVM - problems with virtual disk while creating new partition.

    Posted Fri January 23, 2009 05:42 PM

    Originally posted by: bassemir


    This is strange. If you are willing to try some more things this is what I would try next (maybe you have done this already).

    Are you able to assign hdisk0 to your client partition? That might tell us something.

    I wonder if the logical volume has to be jfs2 (wild a.. guess)

    When the error message is presented is it a pop up or within the ivm presented web page. Is it possible that your web browser is blocking a popup with the error message?

    Under "Service Management" on your IVM page there is a "Monitor Tasks" link. If you follow that link can we get any more details on the error (we might see something under the "Modify partition" task.

    Sorry all I have is suggestions at this point.

    Rich
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  • 6.  Re: VIOS IVM - problems with virtual disk while creating new partition.

    Posted Wed January 28, 2009 05:38 PM

    Originally posted by: rb7


    Guys,

    Thanks a lot for your input. But I was able to solve the problem. I was searching in other threads and found the following one

    http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=14208603

    Here someone pointed out that I should update my ios version (1.5.2.0) to latest fix pack (1.5.2.1-FP-11.1). So I downloaded the new version from the link (see below) and installed it.

    https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/vios/vios15/download/home.html

    And everything worked fine after that.

    Regards,

    /R.
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