Make VxVM volume permissions persistent across reboots

Details:
By default, a newly created volume will only have permissions for the root user only, i.e below is a ‘test’ volume under disk group testdg:/dev/vx/dsk/testdg# ls -ltotal 0brw——-   1 root     root      79,76000 Jun  9 14:33 testThe permissions on the volume can be changed by using the chmod command:/dev/vx/dsk/testdg# chmod 777 test/dev/vx/dsk/testdg# ls -ltotal 0brwxrwxrwx   1 [...]

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Delete duplicate entries in vxdisk (VxVM)

Details:
vxdisk list displays duplicate entries for the disk device (c#t#d#s#) along with an error status:# vxdisk list DEVICE       TYPE      DISK       GROUP    STATUSct0d0s2       sliced    rootdisk      rootdg       onlinec4t0d0s2     sliced    rootmirror    rootdg      onlinec6t32d0s2   sliced    testdg02     testdg       errorc6t32d0s2   sliced           -            -              errorc6t33d0s2   sliced    testdg03     testdg       errorc6t33d0s2   sliced           -            -              errorc6t34d0s2   sliced           -            -              errorc6t34d0s2   sliced     testdg04     testdg      errorc6t35d0s2   sliced     [...]

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Convert from sectors to megabytes/gigabytes

1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes
1 megabyte = 1024 kilobytes
1 gigabyte = 1024 megabytes
Example
The command below creates a 2 gigabytes concat volume, named “vol01″
# vxassist -g datadg make vol01 2g layout=concat init=active
Figure 1

The size of “vol01″, shown in Figure 1, is 4194304 sectors. Another method to retrieve the sector size of a volume is the command
# [...]

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Rebuild the /etc/path_to_inst without un-encapsulating the root disk

Exact Error Messagecannot open /etc/path_to_inst
Details:
Note : This will only work if the rootdisk is encapsulated. You don’t have to break the root mirror.Under VERITAS Volume Manager ™ rootdisk encapsulation, the administrator must take an extra step to ensure the path_to_inst file is created and populated. The difference lies in the root device. This value is [...]

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Veritas VEA GUI troubleshooting

Removing and reinstalling VEA packages can correct this symptom in many cases.
In version 5.0 VRTSvmpro has dependencies on VRTSfas.
To be able to remove VRTSvmpro the package VRTSfas must be removed first.
The VEA packages must be removed and re-installed in the order specified below.
1. Un-install the following packages in this order:
VRTSfas
VRTSfspro
VRTSvmpro
VRTSobgui
VRTSob
2. Install packages in this order:
VRTSob
VRTSobgui
VRTSvmpro
VRTSfspro
VRTSfas
NOTE [...]

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