VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Troubleshooting Guide (September 2004)

Preface

Introduction

The VERITAS Volume Manager Troubleshooting Guide provides information about

how to recover from hardware failure, and how to understand and deal with Veritas

Volume Manager (VxVM) error messages during normal operation.

For detailed information about VERITAS Volume Manager and how to use it, refer to the

VERITAS Volume Manager Administrator’s Guide. Details on how to use the VERITAS

Enterprise Administrator graphical user interface can be found in the VERITAS

Volume Manager (UNIX) User’s Guide. For a description of VERITAS Volume

Replicator error messages, see the VERITAS Volume Replicator Administrator’s

Guide.

Audience and Scope

This guide is intended for system administrators responsible for installing, conﬁguring,

and maintaining systems under the control of VERITAS Volume Manager.

This guide assumes that the user has a:

• working knowledge of the UNIX operating system

• basic understanding of UNIX system administration

• basic understanding of volume management

The purpose of this guide is to help the system administrator recover from the failure of

disks and other hardware upon which virtual software objects such as subdisks, plexes

and volumes are constructed in Veritas Volume Manager. Guidelines are also included

on how to understand and react to the various VxVM error messages that you may see.

Organization

This guide is organized as follows:

• Chapter 1, Recovery from Hardware Failure,

• Chapter 2, Recovery from Boot Disk Failure,

• Chapter 3, Error Messages,