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Disk groups

Disks groups are the basis of VxVM storage configuration so it is critical that the integrity and resilience of your disk groups are maintained. Storage Expert provides a number of rules that enable you to check the status of disk groups and associated objects.

Checking whether a configuration database is too full (vxse_dg1)

To check whether the disk group configuration database has become too full, run rule vxse_dg1.

By default, this rule suggests a limit of 250 for the number of disks in a disk group. If one of your disk groups exceeds this figure, you should consider creating a new disk group. The number of objects that can be configured in a disk group is limited by the size of the private region which stores configuration information about every object in the disk group. Each disk in the disk group that has a private region stores a separate copy of this configuration database.

See "Creating a disk group" on page 180.

Checking disk group configuration copies and logs (vxse_dg2)

To check whether a disk group has too many or too few disk group configuration copies, and whether a disk group has too many or too few copies of the disk group log, run rule vxse_dg2.

Checking "on disk config" size (vxse_dg3)

To check whether a disk group has the correct "on disk config" size, run rule vxse_dg3.

Checking the version number of disk groups (vxse_dg4)

To check the version number of a disk group, run rule vxse_dg4.

For optimum results, your disk groups should have the latest version number that is supported by the installed version of VxVM.

See "Upgrading a disk group" on page 218.

Checking the number of configuration copies in a disk group (vxse_dg5)

To find out whether a disk group has only a single VxVM configured disk, run rule vxse_dg5.

See "Creating and administering disk groups" on page 175.

Checking for non-imported disk groups (vxse_dg6)

To check for disk groups that are visible to VxVM but not imported, run rule vxse_dg6.

See "Importing a disk group" on page 184.

Checking for initialized VM disks that are not in a disk group (vxse_disk)

To find out whether there are any initialized disks that are not a part of any disk group, run rule vxse_disk. This prints out a list of disks, indicating whether they are part of a disk group or unassociated.

See "Adding a disk to a disk group" on page 181.

Checking volume redundancy (vxse_redundancy)

To check whether a volume is redundant, run rule vxse_redundancy.

This rule displays a list of volumes together with the number of mirrors that are associated with each volume. If vxse_redundancy shows that a volume does not have an associated mirror, your data is at risk in the event of a disk failure, and you should rectify the situation by creating a mirror for the volume.

See "Adding a mirror to a volume" on page 281.

Checking states of plexes and volumes (vxse_volplex)

To check whether your disk groups contain unused objects (such as plexes and volumes), run rule vxse_volplex. In particular, this rule notifies you if any of the following conditions exist:

See "Reattaching plexes" on page 240.

See "Starting a volume" on page 280.

See the Veritas Volume Manager Troubleshooting Guide.