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[Veritas-bu] HP-UX Media Server to boot up....

2006-10-13 05:28:29
Subject: [Veritas-bu] HP-UX Media Server to boot up....
From: simon.weaver at astrium.eads.net (WEAVER, Simon)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:28:29 +0100
Guys
This is slightly off topic of NBU, as it does not sound like this is the
problem.
 
But we do have a HP-UX with a SAN that takes AGES to boot.
 
One suggestion our HP-UX engineer suggested was to check if there is trouble
with an NFS mouth at boot time - it could be waiting for this to take place.
also, check the rc.log and/or if applicable syslog files.
 
this may give an indication where its getting stuck.
 
But its not veritas to blame here (from what I can see) and I am no unix
expert !
 
 

Regards

Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:jlightner at water.com] 
Sent: 12 October 2006 18:05
To: Hampus Lind; WEAVER, Simon; ZIMMER, RANDY K [AG/1000];
veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] HP-UX Media Server to boot up....



Of course it depends a lot on the age and class of the equipment.   My
RP8420 with over 10 TB attached boots much faster than one of my old N Class
machines with only 2 TB attached.   Also he says "HP-UX" without mentioning
version.  9x?  10x?  11?  11i?.   Itanium box or PA-RISC?

 

Many variables can affect this including how one has zoned storage (assuming
a SAN).  I recall one of the original EMC Symmetrix arrays to which we
attached an HP-UX box (probably 10.20) took forever to do initial boot and
errored out for the load because it actually scanned all the disk drives in
the array not just the ones we were going to use on the particular host via
the SCSI connections we'd made.

 


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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Hampus Lind
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 12:04 PM
To: 'WEAVER, Simon'; 'ZIMMER, RANDY K [AG/1000]';
veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] HP-UX Media Server to boot up....

 

Hi,

 

We are a large hpux customer. But I don't have any 10TB systems yet... But
almost!! One of our media server have about 6 TB and I haven't seen any time
delay in boot time after adding more disk to the system. The boot time now
is the same as it was before the 6 TB.

 

If you look at the console when then server boots, what does it delay/hang
on? I would also recommend you to look at itrc.hp.com (if you have a user).
Often problem with DNS/NIS causes long boot time..

 

 

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: ZIMMER, RANDY K [AG/1000] [mailto:randy.k.zimmer at monsanto.com] 
Sent: 11 October 2006 15:43
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] HP-UX Media Server to boot up....

I have a question for the group.  I have an HP-UX Media Server with 10TB of
disk storage attached to the SAN.  When we reboot this system it can take up
to 90 minutes for it to come up.  Is anybody out there experiencing this
same issue?  If so, Is there anything that can be done to speed this process
up?

Thanks,

Randy Zimmer

Unix System Administrator

Monsanto Enterprise Infrastructure Team

Office:  314-694-3109

Pager:  314-294-7966

rkzimm at monsanto.com

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