Document Version
Introduction
Product Compatibility
Converting to ptx/SVM V2.x from ptx/SVM V1.x
Deinstall ptx/SVM
Usage Notes
Disabling ptx/SVM Sharing in 3- and 4-Node Clusters
Hot Sparing Does Not Work
Use of vxdiskadm Not Recommended
ptx/SVM V2.x Does Not Support Shareable "nopriv" Spindles
Problems May Arise When Disk Groups Are Deported
Using VTOC Drivers on Disks Under ptx/SVM Control
Performance Better in Private Disk Groups Than in Shared
Disk Media Record Can Be Removed from Active Volume
Product Documentation
Problem Reports
Fixed Problems in ptx/SVM V2.1.4
Open Problems in ptx/SVM V2.1.4
A Volume in rootdg Will Prevent Autoimport of a Disk Group with the Same Name (221607)
Invalid Values for loglen Are Ignored (221620)
maxgrow and maxsize Arguments to vxassist Are Not Described in Man Page (227112)
vxconfigd Does Not Send Errors to Log File or Through syslog (227276)
vxmake Cannot Handle Arbitrarily Large Files (228192)
Performance Slow When 100 Volumes Started in Parallel (229764)
vxrecover Returns Errors When Trying to Recover Volumes in Deported Disk Groups (229772)
vxstat Command Accessible Only by root (231132)
Hot-Spare Disks May Not Be Tamper-Proof (231406)
Mirrored Volume Will Not Recover if It Has Been Modified Outside of ptx/SVM Control (231419)
Automatic Deinstallation of ptx/SVM Does Not Work (231421)
Multiple Subdisks Are Allowed in ROOTVOL (231844)
vxresize Returns Erroneous Messages (233342)
vxdiskadm Option to Offline a Disk Does Not Work (233530)
vxiod Processes Are Started When ptx/SVM Is Not Enabled (234686)
ptx/SVM Can Create a Volume with Length Shorter than Plex (234848)
Root Volume Mount Point Changes Across Machines in a Cluster (235520)
vxrecover Ignores noattach Option (235530)
dumpcfg Does Not Handle Multiple Disk Groups (236142)
vxconfigd -k May Fail to Reimport Disk Groups (236238)
Disk Failure Can Hang vxmake (236469)
vxdiskadm Does Not Work on Shared Disks (236943)
vxvol start Sometimes Fails and Returns No Error Message (237191)
"Volume Locked by Another Utility" Message Appears (237430)
Stale Disk Access Records Not Always Purged (237459)
Offset Not Returned to Zero When vxvol -o force stop Is Used (237461)
vxassist Man Page Incorrectly Lists "ctrl" Option (238325)
Restarting vxconfigd on Slave Can Confuse Master and Slave (239284)
Partitions on Same Spindle Can Belong to Two Different Disk Groups (239776)
Asynchronous Reads at 32 KB I/O Size Cause Performance Problems (239950)
A Problem Exists when Each Cluster Node Contains an Identical Private Disk Group Name (240451)
ptx/SVM Doesn't Realize a Disk Has Changed When a Private Area on a Spindle is Reinitialized (241205)
Master Node Appears Hung After Quorum Is Lost and Regained (241732)
S03reconfig Outputs an Inappropriate Error Message (241733)
vxconfigd Lists Wrong Disk Group Name (242245)
Hot Sparing Fails (242311)
vxdiskadm OLR Fails on Sliced and Simple NODEVICE Disks (242863)
Extremely Large Systems May Run Out of KVA (244717)
Shared Dirty-Region Logging Volumes Can Cause Looping in the S03svm-awaitjoin Script (244807)
vxencap Can Overwrite Data (245105)
vxdisk list Generates I/O Errors on Disks Owned by Other Nodes (245185)
Private Disk Groups with the Same Name Can Be Created on Different Nodes (245708)
"Invalid device close flags" Entries Appear in ktlog When Closing Disks in a Private Disk Group (246033)
vxtrace Does Not Perform Consistently (246092)
ptx/SVM Administration Guide Procedure for Plex Detach Protocol Is Incorrect (246636)
Renaming the Plex for ROOTVOL Leads to Loss of I/O to the Root Partition (246992)
ptx/SVM Does Not Provide an Easy Way to Locate the SVM Objects Used by a Disk (247220)
The vxdiskadm OLR Procedure Does Not Complete Properly (247525)
Volumes Manually Placed in NEEDSYNC or SYNC State May Have Poor Performance (247700)
vxassist Lets You Shrink Active Volumes (247990)
System Can Boot from a Disk No Longer in the root Disk Group (248086)
vxassist Cannot Be Used to Create a Mirror on the Same Disk as First Plex (248105)
Disabled klogs During Cluster Transition Terminates Failover (248107)
A Panic Occurs in volsiodone() (248346)
"vxvol start" May Fail Without Warning for Single-Plex Volumes (248620)
vxassist Man Page Contains Error (248696)
Confusing Error Message Returned After Volume Usage Type Changed to "root" (248773)
A Plex Cannot Be Created Containing a Subdisk with Punctuation in its Name (248798)
Import of Disk Group Bypasses Check for Spindle in Duplicate Group (248945)
vxconfigd Drops Core in memset() (249013)
nopriv Disks Can Be Added to Shared Disk Groups (249045)
"vxmend fix active" Fails When Many Plexes Are Given as Argument (249133)
RAID Devices Have Public Length of Zero (250049)
Too Many Log Copies in a Disk Group (250252)
A Spindle's Last Disk Label Cannot Be Removed (250254)
Disk Group Becomes Disabled When Adding in a New Disk Access Record (250318)
Shared Volumes in the SYNC State Can Severely Degrade Performance (250507)
vxconfigd Drops Core in xalloc() (250519)
vxdg Reports Error "Invalid attribute specification" (250602)
Disk Group Rename Command Does Not Work Properly (250830)