[SunHELP] Veritas VM help connecting to an ESS?

[Sandwich Maker]

"From: Tim Bingham <binghamt at upstate.edu>
"
"I have Veritas Volume Manager 3.5 on a 420R running Solaris 7. I'm 
"trying to connect two disks defined on an IBM ESS Shark through an 
"Emulex LP8000 HBA.
"
"I can see the disks correctly and configure them in VM without a problem.
"
"At boot time though, the polling of the disks takes quite a while and 
"Veritas VM starts before the second LUN is discovered. VM declares 
"the second disk is missing and starts the process of moving data 
"around to recreate the mirrors on the lost device. Once the system is 
"booted to where I can login, I can issue a "vxdctl enable" and that 
"rediscovers the disk and I can add it back into the disk group but 
"it's too late.
"
"Is there a way to discover the disks earlier in the boot process, or 
"a way to delay the start of VM? The volumes on the disks in question 
"are not part of rootdg. I tried forceloading the lpfc driver for the 
"HBA in /etc/system but that didn't speed up polling of the disks.

as a hack, i'd dig into the /etc/init.d startup file for vxvm and
insert something like this into the 'start' clause:

#############
MYNAME=`basename $0`

if ["$MYNAME" = S01vxvm ]	# or whatever it's linked to in rc[23].d
then
	sleep 99
fi
#############
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