Solstice DiskSuite 4.2.1 Installation

Hi,
I have a SUN fire 880 system running Solaris 8 and 72GBX10 Disk.
right now 8 disk are configured in Veritas Volume Manager and one disk has root and other file system and one more disk is still free so I am planning to mirror root disk with free disk in ( Solstice DiskSuite 4.2.1) please advice me
My Qustion is
1>Is it possible ???
2>From where I can get Solstice DiskSuite 4.2.1 packages???.
Thanks in advance..
Bhupal

Yes, but some versions of VxVM require a 'rootdg' remain. You may or may not prefer to simply use VxVM to mirror root.
The packages are on disk2 of the installation media in the EA folder.
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user1@myserver>pwd ; df -k / ; ls -lt | egrep '(c1t0d0s0|c1t1d0s0)' ; prtconf -vp | grep bootpath ; metastat d10
/dev/dsk
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/md/dsk/d10 8258597 3435895 4740117 43% /
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 Jul 28 2003 c1t0d0s0 -> ../../devices/pci@1c,600000/scsi@2/sd@0,0:a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 Jul 28 2003 c1t1d0s0 -> ../../devices/pci@1c,600000/scsi@2/sd@1,0:a
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d10: Mirror
Submirror 0: d11
State: Okay
Submirror 1: d12
State: Okay
Pass: 1
Read option: roundrobin (default)
Write option: parallel (default)
Size: 16779312 blocks
d11: Submirror of d10
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Size: 16779312 blocks
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Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare
c1t0d0s0 0 No Okay
d12: Submirror of d10
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Size: 16779312 blocks
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare
c1t1d0s0 0 No Okay
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ok nvalias backup_root <disk path>
Redefine the boot-device variable to reference both the primary and secondary submirrors, in the order in which you want to access them. For example:
ok printenv boot-device
boot-device= disk net
ok setenv boot-device disk backup_root net
boot-device= disk backup_root net
In the event of primary root disk failure, the system automatically boots from the secondary submirror. To test the secondary submirror, boot the system manually, as follows:
ok boot backup_root
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flags first blk block count
a m p luo 16 1034 /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7
a p luo 1050 1034 /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7
a p luo 2084 1034 /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7
a p luo 16 1034 /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7
a p luo 1050 1034 /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7
a p luo 2084 1034 /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7
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u - replica is up to date
l - locator for this replica was read successfully
c - replica's location was in /etc/lvm/mddb.cf
p - replica's location was patched in kernel
m - replica is master, this is replica selected as input
W - replica has device write errors
a - replica is active, commits are occurring to this replica
M - replica had problem with master blocks
D - replica had problem with data blocks
F - replica had format problems
S - replica is too small to hold current data base
R - replica had device read errors
user1@myserver>df -k
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/md/dsk/d10 8258597 3435896 4740116 43% /
/dev/md/dsk/d40 2053605 929873 1062124 47% /usr
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
/dev/md/dsk/d30 2053605 937231 1054766 48% /var
swap 2606008 24 2605984 1% /var/run
swap 6102504 3496520 2605984 58% /tmp
/dev/md/dsk/d60 13318206 8936244 4248780 68% /u01
/dev/md/dsk/d50 5161437 2916925 2192898 58% /opt
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d40: Mirror
Submirror 0: d41
State: Okay
Submirror 1: d42
State: Okay
Pass: 1
Read option: roundrobin (default)
Write option: parallel (default)
Size: 4194828 blocks
d41: Submirror of d40
State: Okay
Size: 4194828 blocks
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare
c1t0d0s4 0 No Okay
d42: Submirror of d40
State: Okay
Size: 4194828 blocks
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare
c1t1d0s4 0 No Okay
user1@myserver>metastat d30
d30: Mirror
Submirror 0: d31
State: Okay
Submirror 1: d32
State: Okay
Pass: 1
Read option: roundrobin (default)
Write option: parallel (default)
Size: 4194828 blocks
d31: Submirror of d30
State: Okay
Size: 4194828 blocks
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare
c1t0d0s3 0 No Okay
d32: Submirror of d30
State: Okay
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Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare
c1t1d0s3 0 No Okay
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d50: Mirror
Submirror 0: d51
State: Okay
Submirror 1: d52
State: Okay
Pass: 1
Read option: roundrobin (default)
Write option: parallel (default)
Size: 10487070 blocks
d51: Submirror of d50
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Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare
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d52: Submirror of d50
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d11 1 1 c1t0d0s0
d12 1 1 c1t1d0s0
d20 -m d21 d22 1
d21 1 1 c1t0d0s1
d22 1 1 c1t1d0s1
d30 -m d31 d32 1
d31 1 1 c1t0d0s3
d32 1 1 c1t1d0s3
d40 -m d41 d42 1
d41 1 1 c1t0d0s4
d42 1 1 c1t1d0s4
d50 -m d51 d52 1
d51 1 1 c1t0d0s5
d52 1 1 c1t1d0s5
d60 -m d61 d62 1
d61 1 1 c1t0d0s6
d62 1 1 c1t1d0s6
user1@myserver>pkginfo -l SUNWmdg
PKGINST: SUNWmdg
NAME: Solstice DiskSuite Tool
CATEGORY: system
ARCH: sparc
VERSION: 4.2.1,REV=1999.11.04.18.29
BASEDIR: /
VENDOR: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
DESC: Solstice DiskSuite Tool
PSTAMP: 11/04/99-18:32:06
INSTDATE: Apr 16 2004 11:10
VSTOCK: 258-6252-11
HOTLINE: Please contact your local service provider
STATUS: completely installed
FILES: 150 installed pathnames
6 shared pathnames
19 directories
1 executables
7327 blocks used (approx)
user1@myserver>
=======================================================================================
5) After successfully testing the above we will bring the system to the single user mode
# reboot -- -s
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# metadetach -f d10 d12
#metadetach -f d30 d32
#metadetach -f d40 d42
#metadetach -f d50 d52
# metastat =====> (to check if the submirror�s are successfully detached)
7) Applying patch on the server
After patch installation is complete will be rebooting the server to single user mode
# reboot -- -s
confirming if patch installation was successful (uname �a) .
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# metattach d12 d10
# metattach d30 d32
#metattach d40 d42
# metattach d50 d52
# metastat d10 =====> (to check the submirror is successfully reattached)
user1@myserver>uname -a ; cat /etc/release ; date
SunOS myserver 5.8 Generic_117350-04 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V210
Solaris 8 HW 12/02 s28s_hw1wos_06a SPARC
Copyright 2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Assembled 12 December 2002
Mon Apr 14 17:10:09 BST 2008
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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(sparc) 4.2.1,REV=1999.12.03.10.00
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/sparc/Packages>
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(sparc) 4.2.1,REV=1999.11.04.18.29
Copyright 2000 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Root Directory: /a/
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Source Location: /a/tmp/jass-packages/DiskSuite_4.2.1/sparc/Packages
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Solstice DiskSuite Commands
(sparc) 4.2.1,REV=1999.11.04.18.29
Copyright 2000 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
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pkgadd: ERROR: checkinstall script did not complete successfully
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You've already got volume manager, so why not use it? If you install ODS as well as VXVM, you're just complicating the setup of the machine.
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