Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Data migration hitachi to ibm svc, LVM interview questions by Dipak


We have some limitations and have to replace all HITACHI storage to IBM svc storage!
I am not sure how I am going to do it it’s a big task near about 40 TB data migration from UNIX point of view.
Still there is no proper plan in place I don’t have any one here with me to deal with this and time lines are really tight.
There are many dependencies from AIX LVM too I should need to and read everything about storage management.

Now I have reviewed it and finally come up with a direction.

  1. Disks are not coming from VIO (for my current projects other wise they are from vio only )
  2. My AIX client is running on 53-09-04 and it’s recommended to upgrade it to TL 11 (as it’s not necessary I am skipping it )
  3. There are ssd drivers installed on my AIX clients Where are SVC needs sddpcm drivers.
  4. Will have to install them first – which needs downtime.
  5. Downtime approx 6 hrs.
  6. After installation of sddpcm I will have to start migration activity.
  7. I have around 900 disks and have to migrate to svc.
  8. There are 5 vgs and 3 are scalable and other 2 are big I may have to convert them to scalable.
  9. And lots of things.
  10. I will post here how I am handling this.
  11. I would not be able to post any specific information every thing will be general; All server name/ Ip’s will be replace by dummy values.
  12. I was having a file systems list around 300 and I wanted to know all details as below,
       
        Filesystem_name <space> LV_name<space>VG_name
So I can start further planning.
I have written a small for loop to do this file /tmp/d will contain list of filesystems.


for i in `cat /tmp/d`
do
w=`df -g $i|awk '{print $1}'|tail -1|sed 's/\/dev\///g'`
vg=`lslv $w|head -1|awk '{print $6}'`
echo "$i $w $vg"
sleep 3
done

to be cont..

Please let me know if it’s adding some thing to your knowledge by commenting on this post
                                                                                                        Thanks                  
                                                                                                        Dipak Warade

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