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Dynamic Root Disk Administrator's Guide: HP-UX 11i v2, HP-UX 11i v3

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HP Part Number: 5992-4873

Edition: 1.0

Published: September 2008

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Table of Contents

About This Guide

Intended Audience
Publishing History
Locating This Guide
Guide Organization
Typographic Conventions
Related Information
HP Encourages Your Comments

1 About Dynamic Root Disk

Conceptual Overview
Terminology
Commands Overview
Downloading and Installing Dynamic Root Disk

2 Cloning the Active System Image

The Active System Image

Locating Disks

Locating Disks on HP-UX 11i v2 Systems
Locating Disks on HP-UX 11i v3 Integrity Systems

Choosing a Target Disk

Using Other Utilities to Determine Disk Availability

Using DRD for Limited Disk Availability Checks

Using drd clone to Analyze Disk Size

Creating the Clone

3 Maintaining Software on the Cloned Image

DRD-Safe Commands and Packages

Managing Patches with drd runcmd

DRD-Safe Patches and the drd_unsafe_patch_list File
Patches with Special Installation Instructions

Managing Products with drd runcmd

Special Considerations for Firmware Patches

Restrictions on sw* Commands Invoked by drd runcmd

Viewing Logs

4 Accessing the Inactive System Image

Mounting the Inactive System Image
Performing Administrative Tasks on the Inactive System Image
Unmounting the Inactive System Image

5 Activating the Inactive System Image

Preparing the Inactive System Image to Activate Later
Undoing Activation of the Inactive System Image

6 Rehosting and Unrehosting Systems

Rehosting Overview
Rehosting Examples
Unrehosting Overview

7 Troubleshooting DRD

A DRD Commands

DRD Command Syntax

The drd activate Command
The drd clone Command
The drd deactivate Command
The drd mount Command
The drd rehost Command
The drd runcmd Command
The drd status Command
The drd umount Command
The drd unrehost Command

List of Figures

2-1 Preparing to Clone the Active System Image
2-2 Cloning the Active System Image
2-3 Disk Configurations After Cloning
5-1 Disk Configurations After Activating the Inactive System Image

List of Examples

2-1 The ioscan -fnkC disk Command Output on an HP-UX 11i v2 PA-RISC System
2-2 The ioscan -fnkC disk Command Output on an HP-UX 11i v2 Integrity System
2-3 The ioscan -fNnkC disk Command Output on an HP-UX 11i v3 Integrity System
2-4 The ioscan -m dsf Command Output on an HP-UX 11i v3 Integrity System
2-5 drd clone Preview Example on HP-UX 11i v2 or 11i v3
2-6 drd clone Preview Example on HP-UX 11i v3 (using agile DSF)
2-7 The drd clone Command Output
2-8 The drd clone Command Output for SAN Disk
2-9 The drd status Command Output for SAN Disk
4-1 The drd mount Command Output
4-2 The bdf Command Output
4-3 Checking a Warning Message
4-4 Creating a Patch Install File
4-5 Looking for Changes to cron Jobs
4-6 Editing symlinked Files
4-7 The drd umount Command Output
5-1 Booting the Primary Boot Disk with an Alternate Boot Disk (HP-UX 11i v2)
5-2 Using drd deactivate After Activating — Legacy DSF
5-3 Using drd deactivate After Activating — Agile DSF
6-1 Provisioning a New System
6-2 Updating a System to an Existing System's Maintenance Level
A-1 File System Mount Points

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