Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Attaching I/O system boards with DMP enabled

(Performing dynamic reconfiguration on SunEnterprise 10K)

You can attach a system I/O board using the following procedure:
To attach I/O system boards with DMP enabled
  1. Freeze the VCS service groups running on the domain where you intend to attach a system board. Repeat the following command for each service group:
    # hagrp -freeze ser_grp_name
  2. After physically replacing a previously removed I/O board, make sure it is connected to the shared storage.
  3. From the SSP server, enter the dr(1M) shell:
    ssp:D1% dr
  4. Follow the Sun procedure to attach the system board, described here briefly:
    dr> init_attach sb#
    Complete the attach operation:
    dr> complete_attach sb#
  5. Verify that the dynamic reconfiguration attach operation has succeeded. Type:
    dr> drshow #sb
    The new system board should show in the list of configured boards.
  6. Exit the dr shell.
    dr> exit
  7. Log in as root to the domain where you are adding the system board. Enable the controller by entering:
    # vxdmpadm enable ctlr=ctlr#
  8. When you have successfully attached and enabled the system I/O board, unfreeze any frozen service groups:
    # hagrp -unfreeze ser_grp_name
    Repeat for each service group.
  9. Verify that VCS is still up and running.