06 VXVM Volume Online Relayout

VXVM Volume online relayout
VXVM Volume online Re-layout:

In this post we are going to see how to convert the volume from one layout to another
layout without un-mounting the volume.You can use the vxassist re-layout command to
reconfigure the layout of a volume without taking it offline.
Supported re-layout for concatenated volumes
1. Converting a concatenation volume to mirror volume.(mirror-concat)

bash-3.00# vxprint -hvt
Disk group: UXDG
v uxoravol1 - ENABLED ACTIVE 102400 SELECT - fsgen
pl uxoravol1-01 uxoravol1 ENABLED ACTIVE 102400 CONCAT - RW
sd UXDISK1-01 uxoravol1-01 UXDISK1 0 102400 0 disk_0 ENA
Adding the mirror,
# vxassist -g UXDG mirror uxoravol1 &
We can use & or -b option in vxassist to move the task in background

We can see active mirror tasks using below commands.
# vxtask list
TASKID PTID TYPE/STATE PCT PROGRESS
170 - ATCOPY/R 60.00% 0/102400/61440 PLXATT uxoravol1 uxoravol1-02 UXDG auto-throttled
bash-3.00# vxtask monitor
Now you can see second plex has been created.
# vxprint -hvt
Disk group: UXDG
2.Converting concatenate volume to concat-mirror
Step:1-Adding the mirror

# vxassist -g UXDG mirror concatv1
i.e concatv1 is volume name

Step:2 Converting the volume
# vxassist -g UXDG convert concatv1 layout=concat-mirror
# vxprint -hvt
Disk group: UXDG
v concatv1 - ENABLED ACTIVE 102400 SELECT - fsgen
pl concatv1-03 concatv1 ENABLED ACTIVE 102400 CONCAT - RW
sv concatv1-S01 concatv1-03 concatv1-L01 1 102400 0 2/2 ENA
v concatv1-L01 - ENABLED ACTIVE 102400 SELECT - fsgen

pl concatv1-P01 concatv1-L01 ENABLED ACTIVE 102400 CONCAT - RW
sd UXDISK1-02 concatv1-P01 UXDISK1 0 102400 0 disk_0 ENA
pl concatv1-P02 concatv1-L01 ENABLED ACTIVE 102400 CONCAT - RW
sd UXDISK2-02 concatv1-P02 UXDISK2 0 102400 0 disk_1 ENA
3.Converting concatenate volume to mirror-stripe
Step:1-First Re-layout the concatenate volume to mirror-stripe once.

#vxassist -g UXDG relayout concatv1 layout=mirror-stripe
# vxprint -hvt
v concatv1 - ENABLED ACTIVE 102400 SELECT concatv1-01 fsgen
pl concatv1-01 concatv1 ENABLED ACTIVE 102400 STRIPE 2/128 RW
sv concatv1-Ds01 concatv1-01 concatv1-d01 1 51200 0/0 2/2 ENA
v concatv1-d01 - ENABLED ACTIVE 51200 SELECT - fsgen

pl concatv1-dp01 concatv1-d01 ENABLED ACTIVE 51200 CONCAT - RW
sd UXDISK1-02 concatv1-dp01 UXDISK1 0 51200 0 disk_0 ENA

Step:2- Once the convert has been done,then use vxassist convert to convert the
volume to mirror-stripe.
# vxassist -g UXDG convert concatv1 layout=mirror-stripe
Disk group: UXDG
v concatv1 - ENABLED ACTIVE 102400 SELECT - fsgen
sd UXDISK1-01 concatv1-02 UXDISK1 0 51200 0/0 disk_0 ENA
4.Converting concatenate volume to raid5
Here using vxassist re-layout command, we are converting existing concatenate volume
to raid5
# vxassist -g UXDG relayout concatv1 layout=raid5
You can check task status ,using the below command.

# vxtask list
182 - RELAYOUT/R 49.97% 0/204800/102336 RELAYOUT concatv1 UXDG
# vxtask monitor
You can see volume has been converted to Raid5.
Disk group: UXDG
v concatv1 - ENABLED ACTIVE 102400 RAID - raid5
pl concatv1-Dp02 concatv1 ENABLED LOG 2880 CONCAT - RW
sd UXDISK2-02 concatv1-Dp02 UXDISK2 51200 2880 0 disk_1 ENA
pl concatv1-01 concatv1 ENABLED ACTIVE 102400 RAID 3/32 RW
5.Converting concatenate volume to stripe:
to stripe.
#vxassist -g UXDG relayout concatv1 layout=stripe
Disk group: UXDG
6.Converting concatenate volume to stripe-mirror:
to stripe-mirror.
# vxassist -g UXDG relayout concatv1 layout=stripe-mirror
Disk group: UXDG


Coveting mirrored volume to concatenate volume:
To convert the volume from mirror to concatenation,just remove the mirror.

In otherwords,delete one of the plex from volume.
Disk group: UXDG
Method:1
Trying to delete the plex uxoravol1-02 ,
bash-3.00# vxedit -g UXDG -rf rm uxvol2-02
VxVM vxedit ERRORV-5-1-818 Plex uxvol2-02 is associated,cannot remove
Since the plex is attached to the volume, you cant delete it.First disassociate from the
volume using the below command.
# vxplex -g UXDG dis uxvol2-02
Deleting the disassociated plex,

# vxedit -g UXDG -rf rm uxvol2-02
Method:2
In other way you can delete the plex using single command,
# vxplex -g UXDG -o rm dis uxvol2-02
# vxprint -hvt
Disk group: UXDG
bash-3.00# df -h /uxvol2
Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/vx/dsk/UXDG/uxvol2 50M 3.1M 44M 7% /uxvol2
Command Syntax:
# vxassist [-b] [-g diskgroup] relayout volume [layout=layout] \
[relayout_options]
To monitor the relayout status:
# vxrelayout status volume
In similar way you can covert other existing volume layouts to new volume layout.

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VXVM Volume online Re-layout:

Supported re-layout for concatenated volumes

1. Converting a concatenation volume to mirror volume.(mirror-concat)

We can use & or -b option in vxassist to move the task in background

Step:1-Adding the mirror

i.e concatv1 is volume name

v concatv1-L01 - ENABLED ACTIVE 102400 SELECT - fsgen

3.Converting concatenate volume to mirror-stripe

Step:1-First Re-layout the concatenate volume to mirror-stripe once.

v concatv1-d01 - ENABLED ACTIVE 51200 SELECT - fsgen

v concatv1-d02 - ENABLED ACTIVE 51200 SELECT - fsgen

4.Converting concatenate volume to raid5

You can check task status ,using the below command.

5.Converting concatenate volume to stripe:

6.Converting concatenate volume to stripe-mirror:

v concatv1-d01 - ENABLED ACTIVE 51200 SELECT - fsgen

v concatv1-d02 - ENABLED ACTIVE 51200 SELECT - fsgen

Coveting mirrored volume to concatenate volume:

To convert the volume from mirror to concatenation,just remove the mirror.

Deleting the disassociated plex,

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