if storage contain 500 disks in this one disk is failed,we
placed new disk in failed disk place,how can we find out
exact path of the newly installed disk when we execute
format command?
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Answer / madhu
cfgadm -al shows the whthere the newly added disk is
configured or not.if its configured we can run the devfsadm
or vxdisk scandisk command will scan the disk.
We can find the exact path of disk using vxdmpadm or vxdisk
list cmd.
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iostat -En for solaris it will show all disk include failed
disk... after find out failed disk..
this is SVM
(1) metadb -i all disk ... after findout failed disk..
(2) metadb -d remove disk
(3) metadb -i verify the disk whether disk removed..
(4) phycsically insert new disk
(5) devfsadm to run... it will bring disk into OS level after
(6) cfgadm to run it will bring disk under SVM
(7) metadb -a -c ctds create state data base
(8) metadb -e <olddiskname> <newdisklname>
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Answer / mathai
disk from storage not directly visible in the OS. only
maping volumes from storage to host. so it is not possible
to findout for newly installed HDD
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Answer / soumendra
by #devfsadm also we can search the newly attached device.
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Answer / reddy
# echo | format
Searching for disks...done
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c0t0d0
1. c0t1d0
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