You may encounter the underlying error working with AIX.
lsvg shows STALED partitions
lsvg rootvg VOLUME GROUP: rootvg VG IDENTIFIER: 00cf4dc300004c0000000127ba041eb4 VG STATE: active PP SIZE: 32 megabyte(s) VG PERMISSION: read/write TOTAL PPs: 1918 (61376 megabytes) MAX LVs: 256 FREE PPs: 850 (27200 megabytes) LVs: 21 USED PPs: 1068 (34176 megabytes) OPEN LVs: 19 QUORUM: 1 (Disabled) TOTAL PVs: 2 VG DESCRIPTORS: 3 STALE PVs: 1 STALE PPs: 17 ACTIVE PVs: 2 AUTO ON: yes
or
lsvg shows disk missing
lsvg -p rootvg rootvg: PV_NAME PV STATE TOTAL PPs FREE PPs FREE DISTRIBUTION hdisk0 missing 959 425 48..06..00..179..192 hdisk1 active 959 425 37..04..00..192..192
Solutions
varyonvg “vgname”
BUT
On rootvg
If the missing disk contains an actif dump device you will get the following error message
0516-1774 varyonvg: Cannot varyon volume group with an active dump device on
a missing physical volume. Use sysdumpdev to temporarily replace the
dump device with /dev/sysdumpnull and try again.
In that case use lsvg -p to identify the missing disk and sysdumpdev -l to identify the configured dump devices.
For each dump device, lslv -l “dump device lv” will show the corresponding disk.
lsvg -p rootvg rootvg: PV_NAME PV STATE TOTAL PPs FREE PPs FREE DISTRIBUTION hdisk0 missing 959 425 48..06..00..179..192 hdisk1 active 959 425 37..04..00..192..192
sysdumpdev -l primary /dev/hd7 secondary /dev/hd7mir copy directory /var/adm/ras forced copy flag TRUE always allow dump FALSE dump compression ON type of dump traditional
lslv -l hd7mir hd7mir:N/A PV COPIES IN BAND DISTRIBUTION hdisk1 010:000:000 0% 010:000:000:000:000
Disengage the dump device of the missing disk.
Attention: there are different options for primary and secondary dump devices !!!
For primary dump device
sysdumpdev -Pp /dev/sysdumpnull primary /dev/sysdumpnull secondary /dev/hd7mir copy directory /var/adm/ras forced copy flag TRUE always allow dump FALSE dump compression ON type of dump traditional
For secondary dump device
sysdumpdev -Ps /dev/sysdumpnull primary /dev/hd7 secondary /dev/sysdumpnull copy directory /var/adm/ras forced copy flag TRUE always allow dump FALSE dump compression ON type of dump traditional
Now you can resynchronize the rootvg with :
varyonvg rootvg
The progression can be shown with lsvg rootvg. The number of STALED PP should decrease til 0.
Don’t forget the reset the the dump device to its former value ! Again different options for primary (-Pp)and secondary (-Ps) dump devices have to be used with the sysdumpdev command.
sysdumpdev -Pp /dev/hd7 primary /dev/hd7 secondary /dev/hd7mir copy directory /var/adm/ras forced copy flag TRUE always allow dump FALSE dump compression ON type of dump traditional
