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 /etc/hostname.device

Secondary /etc/hosts
vi /etc/system
* start kernal memory for vvr32
Create identical kernel memory parameters on the Primary and set vxio:voliomem_maxpool_sz=
Secondary set vxio:vol_min_lowmem_sz=
set vxio:vol_max_rdback_sz=
set vxio:vol_max_nmpool_sz=
/etc/rc2.d/S94vxnm-host_infod
Start the daemons
/etc/rc2.d/S94vxnm-vxnetd
pkgadd -d . VRTSspt
Examine VVR memory
/opt/VRTSspt/VVR/vvrmemstat

CONSTRUCTING AN RVG
Action Command Line
vxassist -g diskgroup remove log volume
Create an RVG
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
vxedit –g diskgroup set srlprot=dcm to_sysA
Set replication parameters on both the Primary and Secondary 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
vxrlink -i 3 stats to_sysA
Display the number of blocks being replicated

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

vxprint -Pl
List all RLINKs and replication parameters

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

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