SUMMARY: procedure for removing SAN disks

Purpose of this was to put a procedure together to remove SAN drives
config'd with veritas.

Have 20 drives in 2 vxdg's, current state is deported.

Steps to remove drives:
# vxdg import -fC import <diskgroup>
# vxdg destroy <diskgroup>
# /usr/lib/vxvm/bin/vxdiskunsetup <disk_access_name>
Have storage mgt unmask & remove these specific LUNs assigned to this
server.
Once I hear back that they've been removed, I'll run the following:
# vxdctl enable

I'll be testing this within next few days & will report if any changes.


Joe Beck Ciber Inc. - a consultant to SEI  One Freedom Valley Drive/ 100
Cider Mill Road| Oaks, PA 19456 | p: 610.676.2258 | jbeck@seic.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Darren Dunham [mailto:ddunham@taos.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:34 AM
To: Beck, Joseph
Subject: Re: removing disks

>
> No reason to worry about path_to_inst, I was just throwing it out
there
> for precautionary measures.
> We're using DMP. So should the steps be:
> # vxdg import -fC import <diskgroup>
> # vxdg destroy <diskgroup>
> # /usr/lib/vxvm/bin/vxdiskunsetup <disk_access_name>
> # vxdmpadm disable <disk_access_name>
>
> Or should 3 & 4 be inverted or am I off here?

The first two will stop VxVM from reading the disk every few seconds,
and will mark the disk as not containing VxVM data (although data will
not actually be erased).

The third will modify the label/partition table to be similar to a blank
disk without VxVM regions.

The last will stop VxDMP from accessing the disk.  That's probably not
necessary.

None of them will remove the disk from the OS.  It will still appear in
'format' and other lists of online storage.

Depending on what you're trying to accomplish, those steps may be
unnecessary or insufficient.  You might also 'offline' the disks from
within VxVM, but I usually don't bother unless there's a problem.

--
Darren Dunham                                           ddunham@taos.com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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