Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability 7.2 Administrator's Guide - Solaris
- Section I. Introducing Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability
- Overview of Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability
- About Veritas File System
- About Storage Foundation Cluster File System (SFCFS)
- How Dynamic Multi-Pathing works
- How DMP works
- How Veritas Volume Manager works
- How Veritas Volume Manager works with the operating system
- How Veritas Volume Manager handles storage management
- Volume layouts in Veritas Volume Manager
- Online relayout
- Volume resynchronization
- Dirty region logging
- Volume snapshots
- FastResync
- How VxVM handles hardware clones or snapshots
- How Veritas File System works
- How Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability works
- About Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability architecture
- About Veritas File System features supported in cluster file systems
- About single network link and reliability
- About I/O fencing
- About preventing data corruption with I/O fencing
- About I/O fencing components
- About server-based I/O fencing
- About secure communication between the SFCFSHA cluster and CP server
- How Cluster Volume Manager works
- Overview of clustering
- Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) tolerance to storage connectivity failures
- Storage disconnectivity and CVM disk detach policies
- CVM initialization and configuration
- Dirty region logging in cluster environments
- Multiple host failover configurations
- About Flexible Storage Sharing
- Overview of Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability
- Section II. Provisioning storage
- Provisioning new storage
- Advanced allocation methods for configuring storage
- Customizing allocation behavior
- Using rules to make volume allocation more efficient
- Understanding persistent attributes
- Customizing disk classes for allocation
- Specifying allocation constraints for vxassist operations with the use clause and the require clause
- Creating volumes of a specific layout
- Customizing allocation behavior
- Creating and mounting VxFS file systems
- Creating a VxFS file system
- Mounting a VxFS file system
- tmplog mount option
- ioerror mount option
- largefiles and nolargefiles mount options
- Resizing a file system
- Monitoring free space
- Extent attributes
- Section III. Administering multi-pathing with DMP
- Administering Dynamic Multi-Pathing
- Discovering and configuring newly added disk devices
- About discovering disks and dynamically adding disk arrays
- How to administer the Device Discovery Layer
- Administering DMP using the vxdmpadm utility
- Gathering and displaying I/O statistics
- Specifying the I/O policy
- Managing DMP devices for the ZFS root pool
- Discovering and configuring newly added disk devices
- Dynamic Reconfiguration of devices
- Reconfiguring a LUN online that is under DMP control using the Dynamic Reconfiguration tool
- Manually reconfiguring a LUN online that is under DMP control
- Managing devices
- Displaying disk information
- Changing the disk device naming scheme
- Adding and removing disks
- Event monitoring
- Administering Dynamic Multi-Pathing
- Section IV. Administering Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability
- Administering Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability and its components
- Administering CFS
- About the mount, fsclustadm, and fsadm commands
- When the CFS primary node fails
- About Snapshots on SFCFSHA
- Administering VCS
- Administering CVM
- About setting cluster node preferences for master failover
- About changing the CVM master manually
- Importing disk groups as shared
- Administering Flexible Storage Sharing
- Administering ODM
- About administering I/O fencing
- About the vxfentsthdw utility
- Testing the coordinator disk group using the -c option of vxfentsthdw
- About the vxfenadm utility
- About the vxfenclearpre utility
- About the vxfenswap utility
- About administering the coordination point server
- About migrating between disk-based and server-based fencing configurations
- Migrating between fencing configurations using response files
- About the vxfentsthdw utility
- Administering SFCFSHA global clusters
- Using Clustered NFS
- Understanding how Clustered NFS works
- Configure and unconfigure Clustered NFS
- Reconciling major and minor numbers for NFS shared disks
- Administering Clustered NFS
- Samples for configuring a Clustered NFS
- Using Common Internet File System
- Deploying Oracle with Clustered NFS
- Administering sites and remote mirrors
- About sites and remote mirrors
- Fire drill - testing the configuration
- Changing the site name
- Administering the Remote Mirror configuration
- Failure and recovery scenarios
- Administering Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability and its components
- Section V. Optimizing I/O performance
- Section VI. Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager
- Using Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager
- About Oracle Disk Manager
- About Oracle Disk Manager and Oracle Managed Files
- Using Cached ODM
- Using Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager
- Section VII. Using Point-in-time copies
- Understanding point-in-time copy methods
- When to use point-in-time copies
- About Storage Foundation point-in-time copy technologies
- Volume-level snapshots
- Storage Checkpoints
- About FileSnaps
- About snapshot file systems
- Administering volume snapshots
- Traditional third-mirror break-off snapshots
- Full-sized instant snapshots
- Creating instant snapshots
- Adding an instant snap DCO and DCO volume
- Controlling instant snapshot synchronization
- Creating instant snapshots
- Cascaded snapshots
- Adding a version 0 DCO and DCO volume
- Administering Storage Checkpoints
- Storage Checkpoint administration
- Administering FileSnaps
- Administering snapshot file systems
- Understanding point-in-time copy methods
- Section VIII. Optimizing storage with Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability
- Understanding storage optimization solutions in Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability
- Migrating data from thick storage to thin storage
- Maintaining Thin Storage with Thin Reclamation
- Reclamation of storage on thin reclamation arrays
- Identifying thin and thin reclamation LUNs
- Veritas InfoScale 4k sector device support solution
- Section IX. Maximizing storage utilization
- Understanding storage tiering with SmartTier
- Creating and administering volume sets
- Multi-volume file systems
- Features implemented using multi-volume file system (MVFS) support
- Adding a volume to and removing a volume from a multi-volume file system
- Volume encapsulation
- Load balancing
- Administering SmartTier
- About SmartTier
- Placement classes
- Administering placement policies
- File placement policy rules
- Multiple criteria in file placement policy rule statements
- Using SmartTier with solid state disks
- Sub-file relocation
- Administering hot-relocation
- How hot-relocation works
- Moving relocated subdisks
- Deduplicating data on Solaris SPARC
- Compressing files
- About compressing files
- Use cases for compressing files
- Section X. Administering storage
- Managing volumes and disk groups
- Rules for determining the default disk group
- Moving volumes or disks
- Monitoring and controlling tasks
- Performing online relayout
- Adding a mirror to a volume
- Managing disk groups
- Disk group versions
- Displaying disk group information
- Importing a disk group
- Moving disk groups between systems
- Importing a disk group containing hardware cloned disks
- Handling conflicting configuration copies
- Destroying a disk group
- Backing up and restoring disk group configuration data
- Managing plexes and subdisks
- Decommissioning storage
- Rootability
- Encapsulating a disk
- Rootability
- Administering an encapsulated boot disk
- Quotas
- Using Veritas File System quotas
- File Change Log
- Managing volumes and disk groups
- Section XI. Reference
- Appendix A. Reverse path name lookup
- Appendix B. Tunable parameters
- Tuning the VxFS file system
- Methods to change Dynamic Multi-Pathing tunable parameters
- Tunable parameters for VxVM
- Methods to change Veritas Volume Manager tunable parameters
- About LLT tunable parameters
- About GAB tunable parameters
- About VXFEN tunable parameters
- Appendix C. Veritas File System disk layout
- Appendix D. Command reference
- Appendix E. Creating a starter database
Reserving minor numbers for disk groups
A device minor number uniquely identifies some characteristic of a device to the device driver that controls that device. It is often used to identify some characteristic mode of an individual device, or to identify separate devices that are all under the control of a single controller. VxVM assigns unique device minor numbers to each object (volume, plex, subdisk, disk, or disk group) that it controls.
When you move a disk group between systems, it is possible for the minor numbers that it used on its previous system to coincide with those of objects known to VxVM on the new system. To get around this potential problem, you can allocate separate ranges of minor numbers for each disk group. VxVM uses the specified range of minor numbers when it creates volume objects from the disks in the disk group. This guarantees that each volume has the same minor number across reboots or reconfigurations. Disk groups may then be moved between machines without causing device number collisions.
VxVM chooses minor device numbers for objects created from this disk group starting at the base minor number base_minor. Minor numbers can range from this value up to 131,071. Try to leave a reasonable number of unallocated minor numbers near the top of this range to allow for temporary device number remapping in the event that a device minor number collision may still occur.
VxVM reserves the range of minor numbers from 0 to 999 for use with volumes in the boot disk group. For example, the rootvol volume is always assigned minor number 0.
If you do not specify the base of the minor number range for a disk group, VxVM chooses one at random. The number chosen is at least 1000, is a multiple of 1000, and yields a usable range of 1000 device numbers. The chosen number also does not overlap within a range of 1000 of any currently imported disk groups, and it does not overlap any currently allocated volume device numbers.
Note:
The default policy ensures that a small number of disk groups can be merged successfully between a set of machines. However, where disk groups are merged automatically using failover mechanisms, select ranges that avoid overlap.
To view the base minor number for an existing disk group, use the vxprint command as shown in the following examples for the disk group, mydg:
# vxprint -l mydg | grep minors minors: >=45000 # vxprint -g mydg -m | egrep base_minor base_minor=45000
To set a base volume device minor number for a disk group that is being created, use the following command:
# vxdg init diskgroup minor=base_minor disk_access_name ...
For example, the following command creates the disk group, newdg, that includes the specified disks, and has a base minor number of 30000:
# vxdg init newdg minor=30000 c1d0t0s2 c1t1d0s2
If a disk group already exists, you can use the vxdg reminor command to change its base minor number:
# vxdg -g diskgroup reminor new_base_minor
For example, the following command changes the base minor number to 30000 for the disk group, mydg:
# vxdg -g mydg reminor 30000
If a volume is open, its old device number remains in effect until the system is rebooted or until the disk group is deported and re-imported. If you close the open volume, you can run vxdg reminor again to allow the renumbering to take effect without rebooting or re-importing.
An example of where it is necessary to change the base minor number is for a cluster-shareable disk group. The volumes in a shared disk group must have the same minor number on all the nodes. If there is a conflict between the minor numbers when a node attempts to join the cluster, the join fails. You can use the reminor operation on the nodes that are in the cluster to resolve the conflict. In a cluster where more than one node is joined, use a base minor number which does not conflict on any node.
See the vxdg(1M) manual page.