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V E R I T A S E D U C A T I O N Q U I C K R E F E R E N C E

Basic VERITAS Volume Replicator Commands

INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION Action Command Line Install VVR on both the Primary system and all Secondary systems pkgadd -d VRTSvras VRTSvrdoc

Add a license on all systems vxlicense -c

Configure a network connection between the Primary and Secondary

/etc/hostname.device /etc/hosts

Create identical kernel memory parameters on the Primary and Secondary

vi /etc/system

* start kernal memory for vvr32

set vxio:voliomem_maxpool_sz=

set vxio:vol_min_lowmem_sz=

set vxio:vol_max_rdback_sz=

set vxio:vol_max_nmpool_sz=

Start the daemons /etc/rc2.d/S94vxnm-host_infod

/etc/rc2.d/S94vxnm-vxnetd

Examine VVR memory pkgadd -d . VRTSspt

/opt/VRTSspt/VVR/vvrmemstat

CONSTRUCTING AN RVG Action Command Line

Create an RVG vxassist -g diskgroup remove log volume vxassist -g diskgroup addlog volume logtype=dcm

Create an SRL Volume vxassist -g diskgroup make srl 500m

Create a Primary RVG vradmin –g diskgroup createpri rvg volume srl

Create Secondary RVG and RLINK vradmin –g diskgroup addsec rvg sysB-priv sysA-priv prlink=to_sysA srlink=to_sysB

Set replication parameters on both the Primary and Secondary vxedit –g diskgroup set srlprot=dcm to_sysA vxedit –g diskgroup set latencyprot=off to_sysA vxedit –g diskgroup set synchronous=off to_sysA

Set spare, no hot relocation use, or set reserved space on a disk vxedit -g diskgroup set {spare|nohotuse|reserve}=on|off diskname

Resize a data volume vradmin -g diskgroup resizevol rvg volume 200m

STATUS AND VERIFICATION Action Command Line Display the number of blocks being replicated vxrlink -i 3 stats to_sysA

Determine whether asynchronous replication is current vxrlink -g diskgroup status to_sysA

List all RLINKs and replication parameters vxprint -Pl

Lists all RVGs vxprint -Vl

List volumes within an RVG vradmin printvol

List Replicated Data Set (RDS) configuration vradmin -l printrvg

REMOVING AN RVG Action Command Line Detach RLINKS on the Primary and the Secondary vxrlink -g diskgroup det to_sysA

vxrlink -g diskgroup det to_sysB

Stop an RVG on the Primary and the Secondary vxrvg -g diskgroup stop rvg

Disassociate data volumes from an RVG vxvol -g diskgroup dis volume vxvol -g diskgroup dis srl

Remove the RVG and SRL on a Primary and Secondary vxedit -g diskgroup -rf rm rvg