Veritas Volume Manager 5.0.1 Troubleshooting Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009

Recovering from hardware

failure

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About recovery from hardware failure

■ Listing unstartable volumes

■ Displaying volume and plex states

■ The plex state cycle

■ Recovering an unstartable mirrored volume

■ Recovering an unstartable volume with a disabled plex in the RECOVER state

■ Forcibly restarting a disabled volume

■ Clearing the failing flag on a disk

■ Reattaching failed disks

■ Failures on RAID-5 volumes

■ Recovering from an incomplete disk group move

■ Recovery from failure of a DCO volume

About recovery from hardware failure

Symantec’s Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) protects systems from disk and

other hardware failures and helps you to recover from such events. Recovery

procedures help you prevent loss of data or system access due to disk and other

hardware failures.

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