Manually performing hdisk reconfiguration -18, Manually performing hdisk reconfiguration – HP XP Racks User Manual

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4

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Execute the following command to restart the host.

# shutdown -Fr

5

.

Execute the following command to make sure that the status of the

hdisks recognized as HDLM-managed devices is Available.

# lsdev -Cc disk

hdisk0 Available 1S-08-00-8,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive

hdisk1 Available 1S-08-00-9,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive

hdisk2 Available 1S-08-00-10,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive

hdisk3 Available 1H-08-02 Hitachi Disk Array (Fibre)

hdisk4 Available 1H-08-02 Hitachi Disk Array (Fibre)

...

In this example, hdisk3 and hdisk4 are recognized as HDLM-managed

devices.
If the status of all hdisks is Available, proceed to step 7. If there are any

hdisks with the Defined status, proceed to step 6.

6

.

Execute the following command to change the hdisk status to Available.

# cfgmgr

After executing the command, perform step 5 again.

7

.

Check the setting for the hdisk reservation policy attribute.
Make sure that the changed default value is reflected in the value actually

used.

# lsattr -El hdisk-name | grep reserve_policy

reserve_policy no_reserve Reserve Policy TRUE

8

.

Activate the volume group used by HDLM.

# varyonvg volume-group-name

9

.

Mount the file system used by HDLM.

# mount file-system-mount-point

Manually Performing hdisk Reconfiguration

The procedure below explains how to manually reconfigure an hdisk.

Note:

In the procedure below, if you execute the dlmchpdattr utility without

performing either step 2 or 6, any changed values will not be applied, even

though the lsattr command execution results will show that the changed

values were applied. To apply the changed values, perform step 2, and then

perform step 10 for a local boot disk environment, or perform step 12 for a

boot disk environment.

To manually reconfigure an hdisk:

1

.

Log in to AIX as a user with root permissions.

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