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HP Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager Software User Manual

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3. Creating an HDLM Environment

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# vgchange -an vg01
0 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg01" now active

4.

Export the volume group.
In the following example, the command exports information about the

vg01

volume group:


# vgexport vg01
Volume group "vg01" successfully exported

5.

If the LVM environment uses an HDLM device in a multi-path configuration,

configure the path to an existing LU as a single path.
Change the path to an existing LU as a single-path configuration by performing

the procedure described in (5) Deleting a Path to an Existing LU in

4.6.4 Changing the HDLM Device Configuration.
Note

When you restart the host, if the

/etc/fstab

file contains a description

about mounting the target logical volume, comment out the description.

Also, stop the applications that access the target logical volume.

6.

Edit the

/etc/lvm/lvm.conf

file.

Edit the device section in the file as shown below to enable the SCSI device

configuration and disable the HDLM device configuration:

Adding and deleting the

filter

entry information

Add the following line:

filter = [ "r|sddlm[a-p][a-p].*|", "a|/dev/sd|" ]

Delete or comment out the following line:

filter = [ "a|sddlm[a-p][a-p].*|", "r|/dev/sd|" ]

Adding and deleting

types

entry information

Delete or comment out the following line:

types = [ "sddlmfdrv", 16 ]

To uninstall HDLM, perform the following operations:

Delete

filter = [ "a|sddlm[a-p][a-p].*|", "r|/dev/sd|" ]

and

types = [ "sddlmfdrv", 16 ]

.

Delete the comment out character (#) from the

filter

entry to return the

definition file to the state it was in before the HDLM device configuration was

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