Veritas Volume Manager 5.0.1 Administrator's Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009

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Tag all the disks in the disk group with the appropriate site name:
# vxdisk [-g diskgroup] settag site=sitename disk1 disk2
Or, to tag all the disks in a specified enclosure, use the following command:
# vxdisk [-g diskgroup] settag site=sitename
encl:encl_name
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Use the vxdg move command to move any unsupported RAID-5 volumes to
another disk group. Alternatively, use the vxassist convert commands to
convert the volumes to a supported layout such as mirror or mirror-stripe.
You can use the site and mirror=site storage allocation attribute to ensure
that the plexes are created on the correct storage.
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Use the vxevac command to ensue that the volumes have equal number of
plexes at each site. You can use the site and mirror=site storage allocation
attribute to ensure that the plexes are created on the correct storage.
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Register a site record for each site with the disk group:
# vxdg -g diskgroup addsite sitename
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Turn on site consistency for the disk group:
# vxdg -g diskgroup set siteconsistent=on
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Turn on site consistency for each existing volume in the disk group:
# vxvol [-g diskgroup] set siteconsistent=on volume ...
Fire drill — testing the configuration
Warning: To avoid potential loss of service or data, it is recommended that you do
not use these procedures on a live system.
After validating the consistency of the volumes and disk groups at your sites, you
should validate the procedures that you will use in the event of the various possible
types of failure. A fire drill lets you test that a site can be brought up cleanly during
recovery from a disaster scenario such as site failure.
Administering sites and remote mirrors
Fire drill — testing the configuration
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