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Installing an Array Support Library (ASL)

14 VERITAS Volume Manager Hardware Notes

Upgrading an ASL Package

Before upgrading an ASL package (installing a new version of an already installed

package), first find out if the old package (

ASL_name) is already present; enter:

# pkginfo -l

ASL_name

1. Remove the package (ASL_name):

# pkgrm

ASL_name

2. Proceed with Adding an ASL package.

Partitioning Disks on Sun StorEdge 6120/6320 Arrays

Unless the correct installation command sequence is followed, partitioning of disks on

array might fail, and you might see error messages of the form:

Volume manager: Partitioning T40_27 as a new disk.

VxVM vxdisk Error V-5-1-2913: Device T40_27: online failed:

Device path not valid

The partitioning of T40_27 failed.

This situation can be avoided by ensuring that you install the VxVM and Sun StorEdge

6120/6320 Array Support Library packages, in the following order:

1. Install VxVM - using pkgadd or installvm

2. Install VRTSt4 (ASL pkg) - using pkgadd

3. Set up VxVM using vxinstall and vxdiskadm

ASLs Created on Previous Releases of VxVM

If you have an ASL that was developed on an older release of VxVM, and is defined as

Active/Passive (A/P) or Active/Passive with LUN group failover (A/PG), and you want

to use multiple primary paths, you should change the array path selection policy to

round-robin or balanced. For example, to change the I/O policy for Active/Passive array

types to round-robin, use the following command:

# vxdmpadm setattr arraytype A/P iopolicy=round-robin

For further information, see the “Administering Dynamic Multipathing (DMP)” chapter

in the VERITAS Volume Manager Administrator’s Guide.

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