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How to clone vg00 using Dynamic Root Disk

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Wiki-UX / Dynamic Root Disk / How to clone vg00 using Dynamic Root Disk

Abstract
This article explains how to use Dynamic Root Disk (DRD) to clone an HP-UX Operating Environment LVM
system boot drive to an inactive disk. Once the volume group and boot configuration are duplicated into the target
device, some of the following actions can be done:

1. It performs system maintenance on the clone while the HP-UX 11i system is online
2. It reboots quickly during off-hours after the desired changes have been made, significantly reducing system
downtime
3. It utilizes the clone for system recovery, if needed
4. It rehosts the clone in another system for testing or provisioning purposes in the following devices:
 ♦ Integrity Virtual Machines (Integrity VMs) running either HP-UX 11i v3 LVM or HP-
UX 11i v2 LVM
♦ Integrity server blades running HP-UX 11i v3 LVM

5. It performs an OE Update on the clone from an older version of HP-UX 11i v3 to HP-UX 11i v3 update 4 or
later

Another normal application of this procedure is to migrate the system bootable drive to larger hard drives avoiding
LVM 1.0 Physical Volume restrictions imposed at /dev/vg00 creation time.

Contents
1 Abstract
2 Procedure
3 Clone a single disk /dev/vg00
4 Boot from the alternate disk
5 Test the current boot enviroment
6 Return to the previous boot enviroment
7 References
8 Authors
9 Editor

Procedure
For this example, an HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31) system is used, /dev/vg00 is made of physical volume
/dev/disk/disk12 that employs LVM mirroring to /dev/disk/disk7 (utilizing agile view nomenclature). The
available disk is /dev/disk/disk10 the same size as the /dev/vg00 disks.

# strings /etc/lvmtab
/dev/vg00
/dev/disk/disk12

# ioscan -N -fnC disk

Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
===================================================================
disk 7 64000/0xfa00/0x0 esdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP 36.4GST336754LC
/dev/disk/disk7 /dev/rdisk/disk7
disk 10 64000/0xfa00/0x3 esdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP 36.4GST336753LC
/dev/disk/disk10 /dev/rdisk/disk10
disk 12 64000/0xfa00/0x5 esdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP 36.4GST336754LC
/dev/disk/disk12 /dev/rdisk/disk12

# setboot
Primary bootpath : 0/1/1/0.0x1.0x0 (/dev/rdisk/disk12)

Autoboot is ON (enabled)
Autosearch is ON (enabled)

Clone a single disk /dev/vg00

# /opt/drd/bin/drd clone -v -x overwrite=true -t /dev/disk/disk10

======= 12/10/07 14:06:17 CST BEGIN Clone System Image (user=root)

(jobid=delta)
 * Reading Current System Information
* Selecting System Image To Clone
* Selecting Target Disk
* The disk "/dev/disk/disk10" contains data which will be overwritten.
* Selecting Volume Manager For New System Image
* Analyzing For System Image Cloning
* Creating New File Systems
* Copying File Systems To New System Image
* Making New System Image Bootable
* Unmounting New System Image Clone
* System image: "sysimage_001" on disk "/dev/disk/disk10"

======= 12/10/07 15:16:51 CST END Clone System Image succeeded. (user=root)
(jobid=delta)

Boot from the alternate disk

# /opt/drd/bin/drd activate -x reboot=true

======= 12/11/07 09:18:13 CST BEGIN Activate Inactive System Image

(user=root) (jobid=delta)

* Checking for Valid Inactive System Image

* Reading Current System Information
* Locating Inactive System Image
* Determining Bootpath Status
* Primary bootpath : 0/1/1/0.0x1.0x0 (/dev/rdisk/disk12) before
activate.
* Primary bootpath : 0/1/1/1.0xd.0x0 after activate.
* Alternate bootpath : 0/1/1/1.0x0.0x0 (/dev/rdisk/disk7) before
activate.
* Alternate bootpath : 0/1/1/1.0x0.0x0 (/dev/rdisk/disk7) after
activate.
* Activating Inactive System Image
* Rebooting System

Test the current boot enviroment

# strings /etc/lvmtab
/dev/vg00
/dev/disk/disk10

# echo boot_string/S|adb /stand/vmunix /dev/mem

boot_string:
boot_string:
disk(0/1/1/1.13.0.0.0.0.0;0)/stand/vmunix

# setboot
Primary bootpath : 0/1/1/1.0xd.0x0 (/dev/rdisk/disk10)
Alternate bootpath : 0/1/1/1.0x0.0x0 (/dev/rdisk/disk7)

Autoboot is ON (enabled)
Autosearch is ON (enabled)

# ioscan -m hwpath
Lun H/W Path Lunpath H/W Path Legacy H/W Path
====================================================================
64000/0xfa00/0x0
0/1/1/1.0x0.0x0 0/1/1/1.0.0
64000/0xfa00/0x1
0/1/1/1.0x9.0x0 0/1/1/1.9.0
64000/0xfa00/0x2
0/1/1/1.0xb.0x0 0/1/1/1.11.0
64000/0xfa00/0x3
0/1/1/1.0xd.0x0 0/1/1/1.13.0
64000/0xfa00/0x4
0/1/1/1.0xf.0x0 0/1/1/1.15.0
64000/0xfa00/0x5
0/1/1/0.0x1.0x0 0/1/1/0.1.0
64000/0xfa00/0x6
0/0/3/0.0.0x0.0x0 0/0/3/0.0.0.0

# ioscan -N -fnkC disk

Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
===================================================================
disk 7 64000/0xfa00/0x0 esdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP 36.4GST336754LC
/dev/disk/disk7 /dev/rdisk/disk7
disk 8 64000/0xfa00/0x1 esdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP 36.4GST336753LC
/dev/disk/disk8 /dev/rdisk/disk8
disk 9 64000/0xfa00/0x2 esdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP 36.4GST336753LC
/dev/disk/disk9 /dev/rdisk/disk9
disk 10 64000/0xfa00/0x3 esdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP 36.4GST336753LC
/dev/disk/disk10 /dev/rdisk/disk10
disk 11 64000/0xfa00/0x4 esdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP 36.4GST336753LC
/dev/disk/disk11 /dev/rdisk/disk11
disk 12 64000/0xfa00/0x5 esdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP 36.4GST336754LC
/dev/disk/disk12 /dev/rdisk/disk12

NOTE: The strings commands show that the volume group /dev/vg00 is pointing to /dev/disk/disk10.

NOTE: The setboot command shows that the NVRAM changes the primary boot path to 0/1/1/1.13 that
corresponds to Lun Hardware Path 64000/0xfa00/0x3 the correct path for /dev/disk/disk10.

Return to the previous boot enviroment

# /opt/drd/bin/drd activate -x reboot=true

======= 12/11/07 10:03:06 CST BEGIN Activate Inactive System Image

(user=root) (jobid=delta)

* Checking for Valid Inactive System Image

* Reading Current System Information
* Locating Inactive System Image
* Determining Bootpath Status
* Primary bootpath : 0/1/1/1.0xd.0x0 (/dev/rdisk/disk10) before
activate.
* Primary bootpath : 0/1/1/0.0x1.0x0 after activate.
* Alternate bootpath : 0/1/1/1.0x0.0x0 (/dev/rdisk/disk7) before
activate.
* Alternate bootpath : 0/1/1/1.0x0.0x0 (/dev/rdisk/disk7) after
activate.
* Activating Inactive System Image
* Rebooting System

NOTE: Do not use /opt/drd/bin/drd deactivate -x reboot=true to return to the boot configuration. The default
behavior of the deactivate command option is to set the current booted image as the default boot image.

References
Dynamic Root Disk (DRD) (http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/w1/en/os/hpux11i-system-management-
dynamic-root-disk.html) - For system admininstrators: cloning for fast, safe maintenance
Dynamic Root Disk and MirrorDisk/UX (http://docs.hp.com/en/5992-1910/5992-1910.pdf)
 Using Dynamic Root Disk to Clone Integrity Virtual Machines (http://docs.hp.com/en/5992-4803/5992-480
3.pdf)
Dynamic Root Disk Administrator's Guide: HP-UX 11i v2, HP-UX 11i v3 (http://docs.hp.com/en/5992-659
0/5992-6590.pdf)

Authors
Alejandro Marin Badilla

Editor
Jessica Fallas

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