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Solaris Cluster General Specifics when a Disk Drive Need to be Replaced or Replacement is Already Done (Doc ID 2007707.1)

Last updated on MAY 08, 2024

Applies to:

Solaris Cluster - Version 3.2 to 4.4 [Release 3.2 to 4.4]
Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition - Version 3.2 to 4.4 [Release 3.2 to 4.4]
Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-bit)
Oracle Solaris on SPARC (32-bit)
Oracle Solaris on x86-64 (64-bit)

Goal

This document describe what need to be done in case of a disk replacement in Solaris Cluster. It covers the general principal and major steps for a disk replacement in Solaris Cluster. But it NOT covers the details what additional needs to be done for the used storage management e.g: Solaris Volume Manager, ZFS, Veritas Volume Manager …

Which means this document gives an overview for the specifics of a disk replacement in Solaris Cluster.

Solution

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In this Document
Goal
Solution
 General procedure is:
 A) Check if the broken disk is a quorum device
 B) Do the necessary actions from Volume Manager perspective (ZFS, Solaris Volume Manager (SVM), Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) …)
 C) After the disk replacement repair the global cluster device space for the replaced drive
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