Managing HP Serviceguard for Linux, Seventh Edition, July 2007

Building an HA Cluster Configuration
Creating the Logical Volume Infrastructure
Chapter 5168
Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!
3. Repeat this process for each device file that you will use for shared
storage.
fdisk /dev/sdd
fdisk /dev/sdf
fdisk /dev/sdg
4. If you will be creating volume groups for internal storage, make sure
to create those partitions as well, and create those volume groups
before you define the shared storage.
fdisk /dev/sddb
NOTE fdisk may not be available for SUSE on all platforms. In this case, using
YAST2 to set up the partitions is acceptable.
Enabling VG Activation Protection
Follow these steps to enable activation protection for volume groups on
Red Hat and SUSE systems:
NOTE Perform these steps on each node.
Step 1. Edit /etc/lvm/lvm.conf and add the following line:
tags { hosttags = 1 }
Step 2. Create the file /etc/lvm/lvm_$(uname -n).conf
Step 3. Add the following line to the file you created in step 2:
activation { volume_list=[“@node”] }
where node is the value of uname -n.
Step 4. Run vgscan:
vgscan