similar to: Migration help please - moving OS to a different LVM partition

Once upon a time, m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us> said: > Here's a question: all of the arguments you're giving have to do with VMs. > Do you have some for straight-on-the-server, non-VM cases? I've used LVM on servers with hot-swap drives to migrate to new storage without downtime a number of times. Add new drives to the system, configure RAID (software or

Hi, I'd like to know what would be the best way to remove an iscsi lvm storage from a server. (removing all reference to that storage etc.) The storage in question will be reset and reformated and used on a different server; so no LVM export is needed. Do I have to do lvremove ..., vgremove ..., pvremove ... and do an iscsiadm -m node -T ... -p ... -u and iscsiadm -m node -o delete -T ...

I'm still running CentOS 5 with Xen. We recently replaced a virtual host system board with an Intel S1400FP4, so the host went from a 4 core Xeon with 32G RAM to a 6 core Xeon with 48G RAM, max 96G. The drives are SSD. I was recently asked to move an InterBase server from Windows 7 to Windows Server. The database is 30G. I'm speculating that if I put the database on a 35G

On 06/23/2015 08:10 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Ok, you made me curious. Just how dramatic can it be? From where I'm > sitting, a read/write to a disk takes the amount of time it takes, the > hardware has a certain physical speed, regardless of the presence of > LVM. What am I missing? Well, there's best and worst case scenarios. Best case for file-backed VMs is

Hi all, I had centos 5.9 installed with one of its volumes (non-root) on LVM: ... /dev/vgapps/lvapps /opt/apps ext3 defaults 1 2 ... Then installed centos 6.4 on this servers but without exporting this volume (I wanted to reuse it). After that instead importing it I did: # pvcreate /dev/sddlmac # vgcreate vgapps /dev/sddlmac And then realised that I should have

Hi This topic is perhaps not for this list, but it I'm running on a CentOS 4.4 and it seems that a lot of people here uses 3Ware and RAID volumes. I did a RAID migration on a 3Ware 9590SE-12, so that an exported disk grew from 700GB to 1400GB. The exported disk is managed by LVM. The problem now is that I don't really know what to do now to let LVM and my locigal volume to make use of

Hi All. Looking for some guidance/experience with LVM and pvmove. I have a LUN/PV being presented from a iscsi SAN. The LUN/PV is presented to 5 servers as a shared VG they all have LV's they use for data, they are all connected via iSCSI. As the SAN I am using is being replaced I need to move onto a new unit. My migration strategy at this time is to 1. Present a new LUN from the new SAN

Hi, some time ago I removed some physical disks from a server and now I'm still getting dmesg messages like: sd 0:2:2:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00040001 end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 0 And all lvm tools still grumbel about that disks too: /dev/sdb: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Eingabe-/Ausgabefehler /dev/sdb: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 1746969493504:

Mike - st257 silvertip257 at gmail.com Tue Jun 23 16:40:47 UTC 2015 > On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Jason Warr <jason at warr.net> wrote: > > I'm curious what has made some people hate LVM so much. I have been using > > it for years on thousands of > > No clue. > My experiences with LVM have been positive as well. > And in opinion it doesn't add much

On 06/23/2015 10:54 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > (1) I have no valid usecase for it. I don't remember when was the last > time I needed to resize partitions (probably back when I was trying to > install Windows 95). Disk space is very cheap, and if I really need to > have *that* much data on a single partition, another drive and a few > intelligently placed symlinks are usually

On Thu, June 25, 2015 11:59 am, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 10:49:57AM -0500, Jason Warr wrote: >> >> >> On 6/24/2015 3:11 PM, Chuck Campbell wrote: >> >Is there an easy to follow "howto" for normal LVM administration >> >tasks. I get tired of googling every-time I have to do something I >> >don't remember how to do

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:15:30 -0500 > Jason Warr <jason at warr.net> wrote: >> >> I'm curious what has made some people hate LVM so much. I have been >> using it for years on thousands of production systems with no issues >> that could not be easily explained as myself or

On 06/26/2015 07:58 AM, Mark Milhollan wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jun 2015, Gordon Messmer wrote: > >> 1) If you have a system with a single disk, you have to reboot to add >> partitions for new guests. Linux won't refresh the partition table on the disk >> it boots from. > I'm not sure this is still true, but I use LVM almost everywhere so I > seldom need to try.

Hi. I have a volume group (let's say) vg_data. It consists from /dev/sdd5 sdd6 sdd7 I added sdc5 Now I want to remove (free) sdd7 and you is to for RAID partition. What are the commands (ordered) I need to perform? I failed to find clear howto. vg-data has only one partition, total size is over 1TB, free space is about 500GB so

On 6/23/2015 11:23 AM, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > AIX does use lvm a lot. Main difference is their filesystem > allows live shrinking. Kinda nice to dynamically size a partition > depending on needs, as opposite to the so often suggested approach of > formatting the entire drive as one single partition. Symlinking is > great until whatever the destination is does not mount. I

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com> wrote: >> , or alternatively making the LVs >> redundant after install is a single command (each) and you can choose >> whether it should be mere mirroring or some MD manged RAID level (modulo >> the LVM RAID MD monitoring issue). > > > I hadn't realized that. That's an

On 06/24/2015 12:06 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > LVM snapshots make it easy to get point-in-time consistent backups, > including databases. For example, with MySQL, you can freeze and flush > all the databases, snapshot the LV, and release the freeze. Exactly. And I mention this from time to time... I'm working on infrastructure to make that more common and more consistent:

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 10:49:57AM -0500, Jason Warr wrote: > > > On 6/24/2015 3:11 PM, Chuck Campbell wrote: > >Is there an easy to follow "howto" for normal LVM administration > >tasks. I get tired of googling every-time I have to do something I > >don't remember how to do regarding LVM, so I usually just don't > >bother with it at all. I

What's the easiest way to transition to a larger HD when using LVM2? I'm running Centos 4.4. I'm going from a 20gb HD to a 40gb HD. I've already DD'd it to the 40gb HD. So now I have 20gb of unused space. Ideally, I'd like to make it one big physical space for the logical space instead of making another physical partition to expand the logical. Here is what I have now

On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:42:13 -0700 Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com> wrote: > > I wondered the same thing, especially in the context of someone who > prefers virtual machines. LV-backed VMs have *dramatically* better > disk performance than file-backed VMs. Ok, you made me curious. Just how dramatic can it be? From where I'm sitting, a read/write to a disk