Description

The following EMC SYMCLI (/opt/emc/SYMCLI/bin/) commands can be used to add EMC SYMCLONE (hardware clone) devices to an existing EMC DeviceGroup.

In this instance, the EMC DeviceGroup is named AIXSRDF.
 

# symdg list

                          D E V I C E      G R O U P S

                            Flags                       Number of
  Name               Type     VC  Symmetrix ID  Devs  BCVs  VDEVs  TGTs

  AIXSRDF            RDF1     YN  000297900694     4     0      0     0

Legend:
  Flags:
       (V)alid DG      : Y = Valid, N = Invalid, - = N/A
       In (C)g         : Y = Contained by a CG, N = Not contained by a CG, - = N/A



In this example, Veritas Volume Manger (VxVM) sees the following EMC srdf-r1 and EMC SYMCLONE (indicated by udid_mismatch and not srdf-r1) devices.
 

# vxdisk -eo alldgs list
DEVICE       TYPE           DISK        GROUP        STATUS               OS_NATIVE_NAME   ATTR
emc0_0f8b    auto:cdsdisk   -            (AIXSRDF)   online thinrclm udid_mismatch hdisk41          tprclm
emc0_0f8c    auto:cdsdisk   -            (AIXSRDF)   online thinrclm udid_mismatch hdisk42          tprclm
emc0_0f8d    auto:cdsdisk   -            (AIXSRDF)   online thinrclm udid_mismatch hdisk59          tprclm
emc0_0f8e    auto:cdsdisk   -            (AIXSRDF)   online thinrclm udid_mismatch hdisk60          srdf-r1 tprclm
emc0_0f8f    auto:cdsdisk   -            (AIXSRDF)   online thinrclm udid_mismatch hdisk61          tprclm
emc0_0f88    auto:cdsdisk   -            (AIXSRDF)   online thinrclm udid_mismatch hdisk54          srdf-r1 tprclm
emc0_0f89    auto:cdsdisk   -            (AIXSRDF)   online thinrclm udid_mismatch hdisk39          srdf-r1 tprclm
emc0_0f90    auto:cdsdisk   -            (AIXSRDF)   online thinrclm udid_mismatch hdisk62          srdf-r1 tprclm
ibm_vscsi0_0 auto:LVM       -            -           LVM                  hdisk0           -


The above 4 EMC SYMCLONE devices, emc0_0f8b, emc0_0f8c, emc0_0f8d & emc0_0f8f will be added to EMC DeviceGroup AIXSRDF as tgt devices.

The EMC Symmetrix ID (SID) ends with "694" in this instance.

# /opt/emc/SYMCLI/bin/symdg -sid 694 -g AIXSRDF -tgt add dev 0f8b TGT0f8b
# /opt/emc/SYMCLI/bin/symdg -sid 694 -g AIXSRDF -tgt add dev 0f8c TGT0f8c
# /opt/emc/SYMCLI/bin/symdg -sid 694 -g AIXSRDF -tgt add dev 0f8d TGT0f8d
# /opt/emc/SYMCLI/bin/symdg -sid 694 -g AIXSRDF -tgt add dev 0f8f TGT0f8f


The revised symdg list output now shows 4 Devs and 4 TGT devices.


# symdg list

                          D E V I C E      G R O U P S

                            Flags                       Number of
  Name               Type     VC  Symmetrix ID  Devs  BCVs  VDEVs  TGTs

  AIXSRDF            RDF1     YN  000297900694     4     0      0     4

Legend:
  Flags:
       (V)alid DG      : Y = Valid, N = Invalid, - = N/A
       In (C)g         : Y = Contained by a CG, N = Not contained by a CG, - = N/A

In this instance, the EMC DeviceGroup is named AIXSRDF.

The EMC DeviceGroup configuration can be exported to a file as follows:


# symdg -f /AIXSRDFv2.txt export AIXSRDF


# cat /AIXSRDFv2.txt
1 000297900694
S 00F88 00F88
S 00F8E 00F8E
S 00F89 00F89
S 00F90 00F90
T 00F8B TGT0f8b
T 00F8C TGT0f8c
T 00F8D TGT0f8d
T 00F8F TGT0f8f