7.9 VxVM Disk Group.
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It is managed VxVM (Veritas Volume Manager) disk group resource.
If you want to monitor the state of a disk group by adding the VxVM disk group resource,
you must make sure that a disk group is created by Veritas Volume Manager.
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Adding
Add the VxVM disk group resource to a group.
Before you add the VxVM disk group resource, you must make sure that you have used Veritas Volume Manager in advance to create a dynamic disk group.
Also, you must assigned a driver letter or a mount path on both nodes.
However, you cannot add a Dynamic Secondary Disk Group that uses a local disk as resource.
- When add a resource from a group name, select a group → right click → "Add Resource". Or select "Edit(E)" from the main menu bar → select "Add Resource". Or select "Add Resource" icon from the tool bar
- Select "VxVM DiskGroup" from Resource Type lists and click the "Next" button.
- Enter the resource name and select disk group name.
[Figure] Adding VxVM Disk Group Resource - As the "Additional settings", you can select the "cluster disk group" or the "dynamic disk group", and click the "OK" button. The default is the cluster disk group.
- Click the "Finish" button to add the basic application resource.
Deleting
Select the "Resource" -> Right click -> Delete the resource.
State
The following table explains the state of VxVm disk group resource.
Agent of VxVM Disk Group: Manages a shared disk registered on MCCS.
State | Agent command | Description | Note |
Online | Offline | It deports the VxVM disk group. | |
Monitoring | Checks whether the VxVM disk group has been imported. | ||
Config data renewal | Read the configuration information of the VxVM disk group again. | ||
Offline | Online | It imports the VxVM disk group. | |
Monitoring | Check swhether the VxVM disk group has been imported. | ||
Config data renewal | Read the configuration information of the VxVM disk group again. | ||
Fault The disk group of VxVM is deported due to an abnormal case. | Online | It imports the VxVM disk group. | |
Offline | It deports the VxVM disk group. | ||
Config data renewal | Read the configuration information of the VxVM disk group again. |
Attribute
Show the specified attribute of VxVM disk group resource.
Attribute | Description | Type | Default | Edit | Note |
ClusterDG | Import to a cluster disk group(SCSI-3 PR function supported?) | BOOLEAN | FALSE | O | |
DGName | Name of disk group. | Combo | "" | X | |
MountPaths | The mounting path set for the volumes in the disk group. | STRING | "" | X | |
VMPATH | Veritas volume manager installation path. | STRING | "" | X |
Specified attribute values are normally entered when add the resource, This value can be edited or viewed through 'Specified Attribute' table in the Resource Attributes tab on the detailed information panel.
MCCS has function to limit input values against user's input field, and it provides function detects automatically data which is input wrong by user's mistake.