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On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 01:53:35PM -0400, Nair, Murlidharan T wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 11:06:35AM -0400, Nair, Murlidharan T wrote:
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> > On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 09:49:24AM -0400, Nair, Murlidharan T wrote:
> > > I have just completed the installation of Linux and configured the
> > > storage array as RAID5. The total capacity of the storage is about
> > > 600Gb. I am trying to decide on the factors that I should consider
> > when
> > > partitioning it. I only have one server that is connect to my SAN.
> > The
> > > main fact that I am trying to debate is what if the partition that
I
> > am
> > > using to store my sql data runs out of space, will storing part of
> my
> > > data on another partition decrease the performance? In which case
is
> > it
> > > better to just leave it as one large partition? I would
appreciate
> > you
> > > any comments or suggestions..
> > >
> > > Thanks ../Murli
> >
> > Make one partition on the SAN, then make it a physical volume for
> > LVM. Then divide it up into logical volumes. Logical volumes are
> > easily resized. It also has a snapshot capability which helps for
> > backups.
> >
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> > The way I have it now is one virtual disk of size 652GB. Is this
> > equivalent to what you call LVM ?
>
> No. Your "virtual disk" is the way your SAN presents a "physical
> disk" to the world. Establish one partition on that. (You don't
> really have to do that when using LVM, but this extends to the more
> general case.) Then establish LVM on that.
>
> > When logical volumes are resized, I
> > presume it does not affect the already existing data in the volume
> being
> > resized?
>
> As long as you are making it bigger, no. After you have resized the
> LV, you will still need to resize the filesystem with (assuming ext2/3
> fs) resize2fs. If making it smaller, resize the filesystem first,
> then reduce the size of the LV. Back up your data in case you make a
> mistake. "man resize2fs" and "man lvresize" for more info.
>
> Can you point to a source where I can read a little more about
> > this? I am doing this for the first time.
>
> http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html
>
> > Thanks for your comments...
> > Cheers ../Murli
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> If I need to add additional disks and combine the space from those new
> disks to the LVs that I had previously created, can that be done
easily?
Yes. Actually you will be adding the additional "physical" (though
they may well be virtual on the SAN) disks to the "volume group". And
LVM will allocate new space as it sees fit - it's all in the same pool.
> Does creating the virtual disk format the disk as well? Or do I have
to
> do that separately?
If you mean the SAN's virtual disk, it is now ready to partition with
fdisk or equivalent. If you mean the LVM volume group, you still need
to create logical volumes, which will need to have mke2fs make
filesystems (what you probably mean by "formatting") on each of them,
just like a partition.
> Cheers ../Murli
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Hi!!
I am in the last stages on my installation. My server can see the SAN
and everything seems ok. Here is a list of what I plan to do with some
question. I would really appreciate if you could tell me if I am doing
something incorrect or is there anything that I have missed.
1. Creating a disk partition for LVM as follows
fdisk /dev/emcpowera
Where options chosen are t = 8e which is the linux lvm partition and w
to write it.
2. Create a volume group descriptor at the start of the disk
pvcreate /dev/emcpowera
3. Creat a volume group
vgcreate bioVG /dev/emcpowera
4. Activate the volume group
vgchange -a y bioVG
5. Find the total PE size
Vgdisplay bioVG | grep "Total PE"
6. I need to create three logical volumes of specific size. Do I use
lvcreate for this?
lvcreate -L 200G -nmysqlLV bioVG
lvcreate -L 200G -nworkspaceLV bioVG
lvcreate -L 20G -nwebservicelLV bioVG
The rest is unallocated and is free to use at later stages.
7. When and how do we create a file system (analogous to using mkfs)?
8. Mount the volumes I have created as follows
mount /dev/bioVG/mysqlLV sqlhome
mount /dev/bioVG/workspaceLV workspace
mount /dev/bioVG/webserviceLV webservice
Thanks for your help.
Cheers ../Murli
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