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List:       veritas-vx
Subject:    Re: [Veritas-vx] Remove disk
From:       Manoj Alex <askmpa () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-07-30 5:30:37
Message-ID: 4ce999b6050729223027d85e52 () mail ! gmail ! com
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Good morning,

 Thanks to all.

Regards.
Manoj

On 7/27/05, Doug Hughes <doug@eng.auburn.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Manoj Alex wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > We have 2 disks installed in a V120.
> > Disk1 is mirrored to Disk2
> >
> > We have ordered an other V120.  To save us having to do a fresh
> > install on the new V120, we want to remove the mirror from the other
> > server and use this as the primary boot disk on the new server.  We
> > then want to add a new disk to the old server and mirror back the
> > data.
> >
> > Any ideas how we can remove the disk from the old server and setup in
> > the new server?
> >
> > Regards.
> > Alex
> >
> 
> method 1:
> pull the disk (yes, pull it while it's running live) from the old
> server and stick it in the new and boot -s and fsck and cleanup.
> Then on the old do vxdiskadm and 'remove disk'. You will also need
> to run vxlicense (or equivalent) to install a new license on the
> new server before it will work 100% correctly.
> 
> method 2:
> use vxdiskadm to remove the disk. mount the / filesystem on the removed
> disk, cp /etc/system.prevm /etc/system
>      cp /etc/vfstab.prevm /etc/vfstab
>      vxinstall
> (have license key ready)
> then go through reboots and stuff.
> 
> 
> 
>

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