Replacing a drive that is multipathed on two Sun Fire 6800's with A500 arra

We would like to know the recommended procedure to replace a failed and/or

failing drive on 2 - 6800's with two multi-pathed A5000's. We have

experienced multiple devices when doing a "vxdctl enable", thus not being

able to import the drive back into Veritas control - Unless we reboot the

servers with a"boot -r" (last resort). If the drive is dead and/or

failing.....

Does luxadm remove_device & insert device need to be run on both servers

simultaneouly?

Thanks.

[533 byte] By [Bherrl] at [2007-11-25 23:15:12]
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If the disk that is being replaced can be seen by both servers at the same time then both servers need to know that the disk has been removed. The Veritas and luxadm commands should be run on both.

If the servers are in a cluster I can't remember if you need to do the Veritas commands on both nodes, but I can't see how it would hurt. The luxadm commands still have to be completed on both nodes.

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