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The dlmsetboot Utility for Assisting Configuration of an

HDLM Boot Disk Environment

This utility automates part of the tasks for configuring a boot disk

environment in Solaris 9 and Solaris 10. Note that this utility cannot be used

in an environment in which cluster software and a volume manager are used.

Format

/opt/DynamicLinkManager/bin/dlmsetboot -d post-migration-boot-disk-

device-name

Parameters

-d post-migration-boot-disk-device-name

Specifies the HDLM device name of the post-migration boot disk.

Notes

You cannot concurrently execute more than one dlmsetboot utility on the

same host. In addition, you cannot execute this utility with another HDLM

utility at the same time.

Before executing the dlmsetboot utility, make sure that the dlmsetboot

utility or other HDLM utilities are not being executed by other users.

This utility can be executed when all of the following conditions are

satisfied:

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The utility is executed by a user who has root permissions.

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The boot disk in the post-migration environment is an HDLM device.

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The boot disk in the pre-migration environment has already created a

UFS file system.

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The boot disk in the pre-migration environment is different from the

one in the post-migration environment.

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The partition size of the boot disk in the post-migration environment

is equal to or larger than the partition size of the boot disk in the pre-

migration environment.

The dlmsetboot utility fails if an error occurs on all the paths to the

migration destination device. Therefore, before using the dlmsetboot

utility, make sure that no path error has occurred.

The dlmsetconf Utility for Creating the HDLM Driver

Configuration Definition File

This dlmsetconf utility obtains device information retained by Solaris, and

defines the storage system's sd or ssd device entries in the HDLM driver

Utility Reference

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