Veritas Volume Manager 4.1 Troubleshooting Guide (HP-UX 11i v3, February 2007)

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Preface

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. It includes guidelines for

recovering from the failure of disks and other hardware upon which virtual software

objects such as subdisks, plexes and volumes are constructed in VxVM. Information is

also included on how to configure command and transaction logging, and to back up and

restore disk group configurations.

This guide assumes that you have a:

◆ Basic knowledge of the HP-UX

operating system (OS).

◆ Basic understanding of HP-UX system administration.

◆ Basic understanding of storage management in VxVM.

Note Most VERITAS Volume Manager commands require superuser or other appropriate

privileges.

How This Guide Is Organized

This guide is organized as follows:

◆ Recovery from Hardware Failure

◆ Recovery from Failure of Instant Snapshot Operations

◆ Recovery from Boot Disk Failure

◆ Logging Commands and Transactions

◆ Backing Up and Restoring Disk Group Configurations

◆ Error Messages

Refer to the Release Notes for information about the other documentation that is provided

with this product.