Unable to add a new disk to an existing disk group after upgrade to 5.1SP1RP3

Problem

Unable to add a new disk to an existing diskgroup (DG) after upgrade to Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) 5.1SP1RP3.

Error Message

# /usr/sbin/vxdg -g oradg adddisk 002oradg=emc2_0fe5
VxVM vxdg ERROR V-5-1-0 Disk Group oradg has only cloned disks and tyring to add standard disk to diskgroup. Mix of standard and cloned disks in a diskgroup is not allowed. Please follow the vxdg (1M) man page.

Cause

Prior to VxVM 5.1SP1RP3, vxdg adddisk command did not check whether the newly added disk is a clone or standard disk. 5.1SP1RP3 patch which introduced this check via e2815517 (vxdg adddisk should not allow mixing clone & non-clone disks in a DiskGroup) prevents mix of standard and clone disks in a DG.

Solution

If there is a mismatch of udid and udid_asl fields and/or clone_disk flag is set as seen in vxdisk -v list <disk> outputs, vxdisk updateudid needs to be run on the existing disks in the DG. This is explained in 000086356.

*** Error when adding disk to DG:
# /usr/sbin/vxdg -g oradg adddisk 002oradg=emc2_0fe5
VxVM vxdg ERROR V-5-1-0 Disk Group oradg has only cloned disks and tyring to add standard disk to diskgroup. Mix of standard and cloned disks in a diskgroup is not allowed. Please follow the vxdg (1M) man page.

*** Only 2 disks in DG:

# grep oradg vxdisk_alldg_list
emc1_151f    auto:cdsdisk    001oradg  oradg   online
emc1_0511    auto:cdsdisk    000oradg  oradg   online

*** Both disks have mismatched udid which means that vxvm considers the disks as clone disks.

# grep udid vxdisk_list_emc1_151f
udid:      EMC%5FSYMMETRIX%5F000290104663%5F630151F008
tag      udid_asl=EMC%5FSYMMETRIX%5F104663%5F6351F008

# grep udid vxdisk_list_emc1_0511
udid:      EMC%5FSYMMETRIX%5F000290104663%5F6300511000
tag      udid_asl=EMC%5FSYMMETRIX%5F104663%5F63511000

*** Whereas the new disk has matching udid, which means it is considered as standard disk.

# grep udid vxdisk_list_emc2_0fe5
udid:      EMC%5FSYMMETRIX%5F000292600663%5F6300FE5000
tag      udid_asl=EMC%5FSYMMETRIX%5F000292600663%5F6300FE5000

*** Procedure documented in 000086356 needs to be run to fix the issue.

000086356

# vxdg deport oradg
# vxdisk -f updateudid emc1_151f
# vxdisk -f updateudid emc1_0511
# vxdisk set emc1_151f clone=off
# vxdisk set emc1_0511 clone=off
# vxdg import oradg
#

*** Once the udid is fixed, you would be able to add the new disk to the DG:

# vxdg -g oradg adddisk 002oradg=emc2_0fe5
#

Applies To

Solaris 10

VxVM 5.1SP1RP3