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VxVM Recovery Cheatsheet for Solaris

May 15, 2008 – 6:22 pm
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This is a quick-and-dirty guide to recovering VxVM volumes and filesystems on a Solaris server. These instructions are not intended to be an in-depth troubleshooting guide for the Veritas Volume Manager. This is just something …

Veritas Cluster Troubleshooting

February 27, 2008 – 1:26 am
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Veritas cluster server is a high availability server. This means that processes switch between servers when a server fails. All database processes are run through this server – and as such, this needs to run smoothly. Note that the oracle process should only actually be running on the server which is active.

Veritas HSM Maintenance

February 12, 2008 – 11:22 am
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When resizing a VXFS filesystem on a server that has HSM running, it is necessary to place HSM in maintenance mode for that particular filesystem. Failing to do so may cause the VFS resize operation …

Recovering from Veritas VEA GUI errors

October 31, 2006 – 11:18 am
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Veritas Volume Manager GUI is more functional and intuitive that that of any other volume management application. However, once in a while the VEA GUI becomes corrupted and displays incorrect information. One of the symptoms …

Monitoring Veritas VM problems on Solaris

April 20, 2006 – 4:41 pm
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Several Veritas VM and system logs can be used to monitor and diagnose problems with the Volume Manager. An automated script can be used to grab the last few lines from these logs whenever a …

Veritas Enterprise Administrator GUI

December 9, 2005 – 11:27 am
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The following is an overview of the GUI for Veritas Enterprise Administrator 3.2

Script to modify Veritas HA Cluster Resource Configuration

December 7, 2005 – 11:10 am
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The following interactive Korn shell script can be used to make common changes to the configuration of Veritas HA Cluster resources. The script enables you to view the listing of available resources; view resource configuration; …

Bounce Veritas HA Cluster resource

December 7, 2005 – 11:01 am
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The following is a Korn shell script that can be used from command line or cron to bounce a Veritas HA Cluster resource. This can be useful to resolve certain problems with Oracle databases running …

NetBackup statistics, Part II

November 21, 2005 – 5:04 pm
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This script uses the output of the script in the previous example to calculate yearly backup load for each Veritas NetBackup client.

NetBackup statistics, Part I

November 21, 2005 – 4:59 pm
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The following script will calculate total size of data backups for each Veritas NetBackup client over the past week (or as defined by the “daysago” variable in the script). The final output will be uploaded …

Fsck operations

November 19, 2005 – 10:36 pm
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The following is a collection of examples using fsck command. It is important to unmount VXFS before running fsck on Veritas filesystem.