Managing Serviceguard 13th Edition, February 2007

Building an HA Cluster Configuration
Creating the Storage Infrastructure and Filesystems with VERITAS Cluster Volume Manager (CVM)
Chapter 5244
Separate procedures are given below for:
• Initializing the Volume Manager
• Preparing the Cluster for Use with CVM
• Creating Disk Groups for Shared Storage
• Creating File Systems with CVM
For more information, including details about configuration of plexes
(mirrors), multipathing, and RAID, refer to the HP-UX documentation
for the VERITAS Volume Manager. See the documents for HP
Serviceguard Storage Management Suite posted at
http://docs.hp.com.
Initializing the VERITAS Volume Manager
If you are about to create disk groups for the first time, you need to
initialize the Volume Manager.
Use the following command after installing VxVM/CVM on each node:
# vxinstall
This displays a menu-driven program that steps you through the
VxVM/CVM initialization sequence.
• In CVM 3.5, you must create a disk group known as rootdg that
contains at least one disk. From the main menu, choose the “Custom”
option, and specify the disk you wish to include in rootdg.
IMPORTANT The rootdg in version 3.5 of VERITAS Volume Manager is not the
same as the HP-UX root disk if an LVM volume group is used for the
HP-UX root filesystem (/). Note also that rootdg cannot be used for
shared storage. However, rootdg can be used for other local
filesystems (e.g., /export/home), so it need not be wasted.
Note that you should create a root disk group only once on each node.
• CVM 4.1 does not require that you create the special VERITAS
rootdg disk.