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Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Information Library |
1. Getting Started With Solaris Volume Manager
2. Storage Management Concepts
3. Solaris Volume Manager Overview
4. Solaris Volume Manager for Sun Cluster (Overview)
5. Configuring and Using Solaris Volume Manager (Scenario)
8. RAID-0 (Stripe and Concatenation) Volumes (Overview)
9. RAID-0 (Stripe and Concatenation) Volumes (Tasks)
10. RAID-1 (Mirror) Volumes (Overview)
11. RAID-1 (Mirror) Volumes (Tasks)
12. Soft Partitions (Overview)
16. Hot Spare Pools (Overview)
20. Maintaining Solaris Volume Manager (Tasks)
21. Best Practices for Solaris Volume Manager
22. Top-Down Volume Creation (Overview)
23. Top-Down Volume Creation (Tasks)
24. Monitoring and Error Reporting (Tasks)
25. Troubleshooting Solaris Volume Manager (Tasks)
Troubleshooting Solaris Volume Manager (Task Map)
Overview of Troubleshooting the System
Prerequisites for Troubleshooting the System
General Guidelines for Troubleshooting Solaris Volume Manager
General Troubleshooting Approach
Recovering From Disk Movement Problems
Disk Movement and Device ID Overview
Resolving Unnamed Devices Error Message
Background Information for Boot Problems
How to Recover From Improper /etc/vfstab Entries
Recovering the root (/) RAID-1 (Mirror) Volume
How to Recover From a Boot Device Failure
Recovering From State Database Replica Failures
How to Recover From Insufficient State Database Replicas
Recovering From Soft Partition Problems
How to Recover Configuration Data for a Soft Partition
Recovering Storage From a Different System
How to Recover Storage From a Local Disk Set
Recovering Storage From a Known Disk Set
How to Print a Report on Disk Sets Available for Import
How to Import a Disk Set From One System to Another System
Recovering From Disk Set Problems
What to Do When You Cannot Take Ownership of A Disk Set
Performing Mounted Filesystem Backups Using the ufsdump Command
How to Perform a Backup of a Mounted Filesystem Located on a RAID-1 Volume
How to Recover a System Using a Solaris Volume Manager Configuration
A. Important Solaris Volume Manager Files
B. Solaris Volume Manager Quick Reference
Beginning with the Solaris 10 release, device ID output is displayed in a new format. Solaris Volume Manager may display the device ID output in a new or old format depending on when the device id information was added to the state database replica.
Previously, the device ID was displayed as a hexadecimal value. The new format displays the device ID as an ASCII string. In many cases, the change is negligible, as in the following example:
id1,ssd@w600c0ff00000000007ecd255a9336d00
id1,ssd@n600c0ff00000000007ecd255a9336d00
In other cases, the change is more noticeable, as in the following example:
id1,sd@w4849544143484920444b3332454a2d33364e4320202020203433334239383939
id1,ssd@n600c0ff00000000007ecd255a9336d00
When you upgrade to the Solaris 10 release, the format of the device IDs that are associated with existing disk sets that were created in a previous Solaris release are not updated in the Solaris Volume Manager configuration. If you need to revert back to a previous Solaris release, configuration changes made to disk sets after the upgrade might not available to that release. These configuration changes include:
Adding a new disk to a disk set that existed before the upgrade
Creating a new disk set
Creating state database replicas
These configuration changes can affect all disk sets that you are able to create in Solaris Volume Manager, including the local set. For example, if you implement any of these changes to a disk set created in the Solaris 10 release, you cannot import the disk set to a previous Solaris release. As another example, you might upgrade one side of a mirrored root to the Solaris 10 release and then make configuration changes to the local set. These changes would not be recognized if you then incorporated the submirror back into the previous Solaris release.
The Solaris 10 OS configuration always displays the new format of the device ID, even in the case of an upgrade. You can display this information using the prtconf -v command. Conversely, Solaris Volume Manager displays either the old or the new format. Which format is displayed in Solaris Volume Manager depends on which version of the Solaris OS you were running when you began using the disk. To determine if Solaris Volume Manager is displaying a different, but equivalent, form of the device ID from that of the Solaris OS configuration, compare the output from the metastat command with the output from the prtconf -v command.
In the following example, the metastat command output displays a different, but equivalent, form of the device ID for c1t6d0 from the prtconf -v command output for the same disk.
# metastat d127: Concat/Stripe Size: 17629184 blocks (8.4 GB) Stripe 0: Device Start Block Dbase Reloc c1t6d0s2 32768 Yes Yes Device Relocation Information: Device Reloc Device ID c1t6d0 Yes id1,sd@w4849544143484920444b3332454a2d3336 4e4320202020203433334239383939
# prtconf -v .(output truncated) . . sd, instance #6 System properties: name='lun' type=int items=1 value=00000000 name='target' type=int items=1 value=00000006 name='class' type=string items=1 value='scsi' Driver properties: name='pm-components' type=string items=3 dev=none value='NAME=spindle-motor' + '0=off' + '1=on' name='pm-hardware-state' type=string items=1 dev=none value='needs-suspend-resume' name='ddi-failfast-supported' type=boolean dev=none name='ddi-kernel-ioctl' type=boolean dev=none Hardware properties: name='devid' type=string items=1 value='id1,@THITACHI_DK32EJ-36NC_____433B9899' . . . (output truncated)
The line containing “instance #6” in the output from the prtconf -v command correlates to the disk c1t6d0 in the output from the metastat command. The device id, id1,@THITACHI_DK32EJ-36NC_____433B9899, in the output from the prtconf -v command correlates to the device id, id1,sd@w4849544143484920444b3332454a2d33364e4320202020203433334239383939, in the output from the metastat command. This difference in output indicates that Solaris Volume Manager is displaying the hexadecimal form of the device ID in the output from the metastat command, while the Solaris 10 OS configuration is displaying an ASCII string in the output from the prtconf command.