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Identify Newly Added LUN. 2. Create Physical Volume (PV) 3. Create Volume Group (VG) 4. Create Logical Volume (LV) 5. Create File System 6. Mount File System 7. Entries in /etc/fstab File

The document outlines the steps to create a mount point for a new LUN that has been presented to a server, which includes identifying the LUN, creating a physical volume and volume group, logical volume, file system, and mounting the file system, and adding an entry to /etc/fstab to make the mount point permanent. Key steps are using ioscan to identify the LUN, pvcreate and vgcreate to initialize the physical volume and create a volume group, lvcreate to make the logical volume, newfs to create the file system, and mount and /etc/fstab to mount the file system and automate mounting on reboot

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Identify Newly Added LUN. 2. Create Physical Volume (PV) 3. Create Volume Group (VG) 4. Create Logical Volume (LV) 5. Create File System 6. Mount File System 7. Entries in /etc/fstab File

The document outlines the steps to create a mount point for a new LUN that has been presented to a server, which includes identifying the LUN, creating a physical volume and volume group, logical volume, file system, and mounting the file system, and adding an entry to /etc/fstab to make the mount point permanent. Key steps are using ioscan to identify the LUN, pvcreate and vgcreate to initialize the physical volume and create a volume group, lvcreate to make the logical volume, newfs to create the file system, and mount and /etc/fstab to mount the file system and automate mounting on reboot

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Creating a Mount Point after Presenting a LUN from Storage

1. Identify newly added LUN.


2. Create Physical volume(PV)
3. Create Volume Group(VG)
4. Create Logical Volume(LV)
5. Create File system
6. Mount File system
7. Entries in /etc/fstab file.
Here are the Explanations with commands to perform above plan of action:

Identify newly added LUN


Create a LUN from storage and present to the server on which you want to assign a
new mount point. To detect new LUN on the server use below command, it will show
you all disks presented to the server till now.

#ioscan –fnNC disk

Here:
f:- Generate a full listing, displaying the module's class, instance number, hardware
path, driver, software state, hardware type, and a brief description.
n:- Generate a full listing, displaying the module's class, instance number, hardware
path, driver, software state, hardware type, and a brief description.
C:- strict the output listing to those devices belonging to the specified class.
N:- Display the agile view of the system hardware.

Below command shows the difference between persistent DFS and Legacy DSF. In
next steps we are going to use persistent DSF.

#ioscan –m dsf

Persistent DSF Legacy DSF(s)


========================================
/dev/pt/pt4 /dev/rscsi/c0t0d0
/dev/rscsi/c2t0d0
/dev/rscsi/c4t0d0
/dev/rscsi/c6t0d0
/dev/rdisk/disk41 /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0
/dev/rdsk/c3t0d0
/dev/rdsk/c5t0d0
/dev/rdsk/c7t0d0
/dev/rdisk/disk42 /dev/rdsk/c1t0d1
/dev/rdsk/c3t0d1
/dev/rdsk/c5t0d1
/dev/rdsk/c7t0d1

To find which disks are not used in the LVM.


#pvdisplay –l /dev/disk/*

/dev/disk/disk41:LVM_Disk=no
/dev/disk/disk42:LVM_Disk=yes
/dev/disk/disk43:LVM_Disk=yes
/dev/disk/disk44:LVM_Disk=yes
/dev/disk/disk45:LVM_Disk=yes

From the above output we are able to find disk41 is not used in LVM. So we proceed
with disk41. And cross check with the size of disk.

#diskinfo /dev/rdisk/disk41

SCSI describe of /dev/rdisk/disk41:


vendor: HP
product id: OPEN-V
type: direct access
size: 56691712 Kbytes
bytes per sector: 512

Output suggests that it is the same size of disk for which we are looking for. So proceed
to next step.
Create Physical volume(PV)
A disk has to be initialized before LVM can use it.

#pvcreate /dev/rdisk/disk41

Physical volume "/dev/rdisk/disk41" has been successfully created.

If disk41 already initialized before then you will get below error message

# pvcreate: The Physical Volume already belongs to a Volume Group

If you are sure the disk is free you can force the initialization using the -f option:

#pvcreate –f /dev/rdisk/disk41

Create Volume Group(VG)

Select a unique minor number for the VG:

# ll /dev/*/group

crw-r--r-- 1 root sys 64 0x000000 Apr 4 2010 /dev/vg00/group


crw-r--r-- 1 root sys 64 0x010000 Oct 26 15:52 /dev/vg01/group
crw-r--r-- 1 root sys 64 0x020000 Aug 2 15:49 /dev/vg02/group

Create the VG control file (group file):

# mkdir /dev/vg03

# mknod /dev/vg03/group c 64 0x030000

Create the VG
#vgcreate -s 256 /dev/vg03 /dev/disk/disk41

Volume group "/dev/vg03" has been successfully created.


Volume Group configuration for /dev/vg03 has been saved in /etc/lvmconf/vg03.conf

s: Size of physical extend(PE) in MB.

If you have 2 or more PV to add in a VG, you can add them in one go, just adding next
to disk41 with a space.
#vgcreate –s 256 /dev/vg03 /dev/disk/disk41 /dev/disk/disk40
To display VG information

#vgdisplay -v /dev/vg03

--- Volume groups ---


VG Name /dev/vg03
VG Write Access read/write
VG Status available
Max LV 255
Cur LV 1
Open LV 1
Max PV 16
Cur PV 1
Act PV 1
Max PE per PV 1727
VGDA 2
PE Size (Mbytes) 256
Total PE 216
Alloc PE 0
Free PE 216
Total PVG 0
Total Spare PVs 0
Total Spare PVs in use 0
VG Version 1.0
VG Max Size 6908g
VG Max Extents 27632

Create Logical Volume(LV)


To create a LV from a VG (option: L- assigns Size in MB; l - Assigns size in Number of
PE, n – assigns name to LV)

# lvcreate -L 55040 –n /dev/vg03/lvol1 /dev/vg03

Logical volume "/dev/vg03/lvol1" has been successfully created with character device
"/dev/vg03/lvol1"
Logical volume "/dev/vg03/lvol1" has been successfully extended.
Volume Group configuration for /dev/vg03 has been saved in /etc/lvmconf/vg03.conf

To display LV information

# lvdisplay -v /dev/vg03/lvol1

--- Logical volumes ---


LV Name /dev/vg03/lvol1
VG Name /dev/vg03
LV Permission read/write
LV Status available/syncd
Mirror copies 0
Consistency Recovery MWC
Schedule parallel
LV Size (Mbytes) 55040
Current LE 215
Allocated PE 215
Stripes 0
Stripe Size (Kbytes) 0
Bad block on
Allocation strict
IO Timeout (Seconds) default

Create File system


You can use newfs to put a FS onto the LV:

# newfs -F vxfs /dev/vg03/rlvol1

F: - File system type either hfs or vxfs. Nowadays it is always recommended to use a
VxFS (=JFS) filesystem.

Mount File system


Mounting created File System

#mkdir /data

#mount /dev/vg03/lvol1 /data

Use the bdf command to see the mounted file systems

#bdf

Entries in /etc/fstab file


Make entries in /etc/fstab file to make mount point permanent between reboots. You can
do this with below command or open this file with vi editor and add entries at the end.
# echo “/dev/vg03/lvol1 /data vxfs defaults 0 2” >> /etc/fstab

#vi /etc/fstab

# System /etc/fstab file. Static information about the file systems


# See fstab(4) and sam(1M) for further details on configuring devices.
/dev/vg00/lvol3 / vxfs delaylog 0 1
/dev/vg00/lvol1 /stand vxfs tranflush 0 1
/dev/vg00/lvol4 /home vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol5 /opt vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol6 /tmp vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol7 /var vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol8 /usr vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vg03/lvol1 /data vxfs defaults 0 2

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