/usr/sbin/vxedit– Unix Arena’s Manual page
Product – Veritas Volume Manager-vxvm (Storage Foundation)
/usr/sbin/vxedit – create, remove, and modify VERITAS Volume Manager Records
- The vxedit utility sets and changes attributes for VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) configuration records that do not depend upon volume usage types.
- Each invocation can be applied to only one disk group at a time.
Tasks |
Switches |
| Rename disk name in disk group | vxedit [-g diskgroup] rename oldname newname |
| Remove VxVM virtual objects | vxedit [-g diskgroup] [-rf] rm name… |
| Set or Change attributes of VxVM virtual objects | vxedit [-e pattern] [-g diskgroup] set attribute=value… [name…] |
vxdg command line Examples:
Renaming disk media name:
DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS c3t1d0s2 auto:cdsdisk oradisk01 oradg online c3t2d0s2 auto:cdsdisk disk2 oradg online # vxedit -g oradg rename disk2 oradisk02 DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS c3t1d0s2 auto:cdsdisk oradisk01 oradg online c3t2d0s2 auto:cdsdisk oradisk02 oradg online
Renaming Sub-disks
TY NAME ASSOC KSTATE LENGTH PLOFFS STATE TUTIL0 PUTIL0 sd disk02-01 - ENABLED 204800 - - - - sd oradisk01-01 - ENABLED 204800 - - - - # vxedit -g oradg rename disk02-01 oradisk02-01 TY NAME ASSOC KSTATE LENGTH PLOFFS STATE TUTIL0 PUTIL0 sd oradisk01-01 - ENABLED 204800 - - - - sd oradisk02-01 - ENABLED 204800 - - - -
Re-naming Plex
TY NAME ASSOC KSTATE LENGTH PLOFFS STATE TUTIL0 PUTIL0 pl plex-01 - DISABLED 204800 - - - - pl plex-02 - DISABLED 204800 - - - - # vxedit -g oradg rename plex-01 oravol-01 NAME ASSOC KSTATE LENGTH PLOFFS STATE TUTIL0 PUTIL0 pl oravol-01 - DISABLED 204800 - - - - pl plex-02 - DISABLED 204800 - - - -
Re-naming Volume
TY NAME ASSOC KSTATE LENGTH PLOFFS STATE TUTIL0 PUTIL0 v oravol gen DISABLED 0 - EMPTY - - # vxedit -g oradg rename oravol testvol TY NAME ASSOC KSTATE LENGTH PLOFFS STATE TUTIL0 PUTIL0 v testvol gen DISABLED 0 - EMPTY - -
Removing VxVM virtual objects
v testvol - DISABLED EMPTY 0 ROUND - gen pl oravol-01 testvol DISABLED EMPTY 204800 CONCAT - RW sd oradisk01-01 oravol-01 oradisk01 0 204800 0 c3t1d0 ENA
Volume
# vxedit -g oradg rm testvol
[box type=”note” ]Note: Make sure you have detached plexes associated with volume.[/box]
Plex
# vxedit -g oradg rm oravol-01
[box type=”note” ]Note: Make sure you have detached sub disks associated with plex.[/box]
Sub-Disks
# vxedit -g oradg rm oradisk01-01
Removing volume and its all associated objects
v oravol - ENABLED ACTIVE 204800 SELECT - fsgen pl oravol-01 oravol ENABLED ACTIVE 204800 CONCAT - RW sd oradisk01-01 oravol-01 oradisk01 0 204800 0 c3t1d0 ENA pl oravol-02 oravol ENABLED ACTIVE 204800 CONCAT - RW sd oradisk02-01 oravol-02 oradisk02 0 204800 0 c3t2d0 ENA # vxedit -g oradg -rf rm oravol
[box type=”warning” ]The option ‘-rf’ removes recursively & forcefully, so use it with caution.[/box]
Setting or Changing Attributes of virtual objects
Disks used here,
DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS c3t1d0s2 auto:cdsdisk oradisk01 oradg online c3t2d0s2 auto:cdsdisk oradisk02 oradg online failing c3t3d0s2 auto:cdsdisk oradisk03 oradg online c3t4d0s2 auto:cdsdisk oradisk04 oradg online
Set aside/does not set aside a disk from use in a disk group
# vxedit -g oradg set reserve=on oradisk01
Does not/does allow free space on a disk to be used for hot-relocation
# vxedit -g oradg set nohotuse=on oradisk03
Add/remove a disk from the pool of hot-relocation spares
# vxedit -g oradg set spare=on oradisk04
Set or clear ‘failing’ flag on specified disks
# vxedit -g oradg set failing=off oradisk02
After Setting or Changing attributes,
DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS c3t1d0s2 auto:cdsdisk oradisk01 oradg online reserved c3t2d0s2 auto:cdsdisk oradisk02 oradg online c3t3d0s2 auto:cdsdisk oradisk03 oradg online nohotuse c3t4d0s2 auto:cdsdisk oradisk04 oradg online spare