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vg00 mirroring
This is a small cookbook about mirroring the vg00 I’ve compiled throughout the years, well it’s really more like a list with the commands but I believe it can be of usefulness for some of the newbies...
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Linux LVM commands in HP-UX
Some of the features I always liked about the Linux LVM2 implementation are the lvs, vgs and pvs command. with this simple commands a short list of the LVs, VGs and PVs active on the system can be...
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Coming back to the IVM world
Yes I have to admit it, it’s been a while since the last time I created an Integrity Virtual Machine. In my last job didn’t have HPVM and here the VMs were already running when I arrived. So a few...
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HPVM clones first boot tasks
Welcome again to “HPVM World!” my dear readers :-D Have to say that even with the initial disappointment about hpvmclone, cloning IVMs was a very funny task but I believe that the after cloning tasks...
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New HP-UX release, new HPVM, new features… same odd naming convention
Last month HP released the last update of HP-UX 11iv3, the Update 6 or the March 2010 Update or 11.36… I decided some time ago to do not try to understand why we have a so stupid naming scheme for...
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Fixing my own stupidity and a bunch of DRD errors
I was playing this afternoon with DRD in an 11.23 machine and just after launching the clone process I decided to stop it with Ctrl-C since I wasn’t logging the session and I wanted to do it. The...
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Mirror operations with VxVM and LVM
In today post I will show how to create and brake a mirrored volume in Veritas Volume Manager and Logical Volume Manager. ## LVM ## Creating a mirror of a volume and later split it in LVM is quite easy...
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Patching a server using Dynamic Root Disk
Dynamic Root Diks, or DRD for short, is a nice and handy tool that IMHO every HP-UX Sysadmin must know. In an HPVM related post I showed how to use DRD to clone a virtual machine but today I will...
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Howto set-up a VxVM boot disk from a LVM boot disk
Creating a Veritas Volume Manager boot disk using the LVM boot disks as its source probably looks to many as a very complicated process, nothing so far from the reality. In fact the whole conversion...
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LVM and file system basics in HP-UX & Linux
Now that my daily work is more focused on Linux I found myself performing the same basic administration tasks in Linux that I’m used to do in HP-UX. Because of that I thought that a post explaining how...
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