Summary: SVM and Veritas on the same system.

Brad Heck sent me this link which covers exactly what I was wondering. Can
you have the best of both. Since VVM is notoriously complex for rootdisk
tasks and SVM so easy...

http://unixway.com/vm/veritasvm/rootdg.html#ssrootdg



-----Original Message-----
From: tagriffin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tagriffin@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 3:33 PM
To: Jeremy.Loukinas@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: SVM and Veritas on the same system.

Install Veritas.

# ps -ef|grep vxconfig  (Confirm that vxconfigd is running.  
If not, run "/usr/sbin/vxconfigd")
# vxdctl init
# vxdg init rootdg
# vxdisk -f init c#t#d#s6 type=simple (This is the first one.  We have a
4Mg partition set aside on slice 6 of our root disks for Veritas rootdg.
We have slice 7 set aside for the metadbs for DiskSuite.)
# vxdg adddisk c#t#d#s6
# vxdctl add disk c#t#d#s6 type=simple
# vxdisk -f init c#t#d#s6 type=simple (This is the second one.  We
mirror our root disks and have slice 6 set aside on both disks for
Veritas rootdg.)
# vxdg adddisk c#t#d#s6
# vxdctl add disk c#t#d#s6 type=simple
# vxdctl enable
# rm /etc/vx/reconfig.d/state.d/install-db (if it exists)
# rm /etc/vx/.dumpadm (if it exists)

That's it.  It works very well for us.  This way, we have two and only
two disks on our system that are for the OS and all other disks can be
for data.

Teressa


-----Original Message-----
From: sunmanagers-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:sunmanagers-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Loukinas,
Jeremy
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 1:26 PM
To: 'sunmanagers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: SVM and Veritas on the same system.


Over the years I have seen a lot of debate about using Veritas and or
SVM (
formerly disksuite ) on the same system. 
 
A lot of people including myself like to use SVM on the boot disks and
VVM
on everything else. Most of the time I have had the luxury of being able
to
stick something in rootdg that I really didn't care about extra disk or
something. But as servers are getting thinner and you don't have extra
disks
laying around doing that becomes almost impossible.
 
I read a bit ago somewhere you can take a slice from a rootdisk and use
that
for rootdg and continue using SVM for your rootdisks? Is this possible?
If
so how? Is to overly complicated to mess with? 
 
 
 Jeremy S. Loukinas        
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