


Shrinkby option: This will shrink your file system by reducing new size from existing file system. This WILL NOT ADD new size to the existing one. Growto option: This will grow your file system as per the new size. Growby option: This is will grow your file system by adding new size to the existing file system. # How will you grow/shrink the volume/file system ? What is the meaning of growby and growto options ? What is the meaning on shrinkto and shrinkby options ?ĪNS: vxassist command is used to do all volume administration, following is the description and syntax. # How will you add new disk to the existing disk group ?ĪNS: Run vxdiskadm command, which will open menu driven program to do various disk operations, select add disks option or you can use another command vxdiskadd. Shared DG: The DG which is sharable and visible to the other cluster nodes. # What is the basic difference between private disk group and shared disk group ?ĪNS: Private DG: The DG which is only visible for the host on which you have created it, if the host is a part of cluster, the private DG will not be visible to the other cluster nodes. # Which are the different layouts for volumes in VxVM ?ĪNS: mirror, stripe, concat (default one), raid5, stripe-mirror, mirror-stripe. # How will you create private and shared disk group using VxVM ? # Name the mandatory disk group in VxVM 3.5 ? How will you configure VxVM in 3.5 ?ĪNS: rootdg is the mandatory disk group in VxVM 3.5, vxinstall is the command to configure VxVM, It will create the disk groups, initializes the disks and adds them to the group. Compare and contrast VCS and Sun Cluster.ģ0.how will you start VCS service? What are the configuration files in VCS?ģ2. Which cluster is better VCS or Sun cluster?Ģ9. Whats the difference between SVM and VxVM? What would you recommend to your clients? why?Ģ7.What are the various clusters you have worked on?Ģ8. How will you recover? what are the steps to follow?Ģ4.what is the difference between detached and disassociate state of plexes?Ģ6.
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How to replace a failed disk in Veritas?Ģ3. What is the difference between failing and failed disks?Ģ2. what are the various layouts that are available in VxVM?ġ8.What is a layered volume? how to create it using vxmake?ġ9.How to quickly mirror a volume, if the volume is empty?Ģ1. vxdisk -o alldgs list o/p shows some disk groups in braces… What does that signify?ġ7. What is the difference between Vxdmp and EMC powerpath?ġ6. How to identify multiple paths for a disk.ġ5. How can you unencapsulate a boot disk in VxVM?ġ4. How would you convert a volume from gen to fsgen? why should you do that?ġ3. How to replace a corrupt private region? in vxvm 3.5 and greater versions…ġ2. what would you do if the private region of a particular disk group is full? What are the design considerations for the size of private region in Vxvm disk group?ġ1. What is the difference between private and public regions in Veritas Volume manager?ġ0. How to create a shared disk group in VxVM?ĩ. Actually you find disk and metavolumes are ok and I/O is happening to the filesystems… how will you remove the metareplace message that comes out of metastat.Ĩ. metastat -p shows a metavolume needs replacement.

You have a boot disk under svm, the machine fails to boot and remains in ok prompt? what could be the possible reason?ħ. what are the common errors you find in Solaris Volume manager?Ħ. what is the significance of 51% state database replicas in SVM?ĥ. what you would do if you want to replace a slice using metareplace option?Ĥ. How do you remove meta only for the root slice? remaining slices should run under meta?ģ.

How do you replace a failed boot disk under meta in solaris? Step by step explanation?Ģ.
