Solaris 10 update 7 - Replacing a mirrored SVM disk on a Sun x4500

Tue 06 October 2009 Tags:

• s10u7 SVM software RAID

First I deleted the SVM submirrors and cleared them from the meta db replicas.

metadetach -f d30 d31 metadetach -f d20 d21 metadetach -f d10 d11 metaclear d31 metaclear d21 metaclear d11

checked out the current replica db, then removed the db for the disk we removed and verified.
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Adding Software RAID-1 Swap in Solaris 10

Tue 12 May 2009 Tags:

• raid1
• SDS
• software raid
• Solaris

This morning I was tasked with adding an additional 32GB of swap space to a cluster of ten Sun X4540(thor) systems at work. Doing this by hand can take a while to be absolutely sure not to break anything accidentally.
I triple checked the slice mapping on all ten …

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