VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Release Notes (5900-0591, March 2010)

VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Release Notes

Known Problems and Workarounds

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Workaround: Allow access to the local X server by using the following command:

# xhost + [hostname]

Disk Group Creation Failure with Duplicate Disk ID

VEA fails to create a disk group with a duplicate disk ID, and gives no other options.

Creating non-CDS disks

By default, VEA always creates CDS disk groups, and will therefore initialize disks with the

CDS format. In order to create non-CDS disk groups through VEA, you need to create the

following two files (or, edit the files accordingly if they already exist). This changes the default

format setting for disk creation from format=cdsdisk in the /etc/default/vxdisk file, and

the default CDS attribute setting from cds=on in the /etc/default/vxdg file.

To create non-CDS disk groups through VEA:

1. Create the file /etc/default/vxdisk, and add a line describing the desired non-CDS

disk format as:

format=simple

format=hpdisk

2. Create the file /etc/default/vxdg, and add a line describing the CDS attribute as:

cds=off

To create CDS disk groups at a later stage, you will need to change the settings back again to

format=cdsdisk and cds=on. For more information, see the VERITAS Storage Foundation

Cross-Platform Data Sharing Administrator’s Guide.

Incorrect vxpool command

The VEA GUI may incorrectly show the -p option as an argument to the vxpool list

command, although the command is not actually invoked.

Internationalization Issues

Comments in Japanese on a Snapshot Volume Are Not Saved or Displayed

Correctly

Comments that are entered in the Japanese character set in the Snapshot Options dialog of

the Create Instant Snapshot screen of the VEA GUI are not saved or displayed correctly.