<OT> Cloing HP Visualize Workstations (HP-UX 10.20)

[Andrew Mathews]

ian at linux-sxs.org wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> long time since I've read or posted...been away from home most of the last 
> month working a office rollout.
> 
> The customer who is driving the requirements for this office, has some pretty 
> finicky and esoteric requirements to run the cadd software that they use.
> 
> We have a working configuration we need to roll out on several other machines 
> and we're looking for a way to clone/duplicate this machine instead of the long 
> and tedious job of configuring 10+ more machines manually.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to how this can be done reliably?
> 
> The hardware specs for anyone interested are:
> 
> - HP C3600 Workstations
> - HP A1658-60031 HDisk (SCSI Ultra 160 LVD)
> 
> The thing I am stumped by is how to get both disks running in the same machine 
> and bit-for-bit copy them.  From what I can tell, in order to have them both in 
> the same system, they need to be initialized as different volumes (ie /dev/vg00 
> and /dev/vg01) and I cannot find  out if the /dev/vg01 can be used at the main 
> booting disk in a system after cloing, or if it *has to be* /dev/vg00.  I'm an 
> IBM kinda guy, so anyone out there with any hints, I'd really appreciate them.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance...I hope.
> 
> 
> 

I don't know what the equivalent HP-UX command is, but I use:
"mirrorvg -m VGname PVname" in AIX which is what you're trying to do. 
This allows me to recreate a disk that's bootable and is an *exact* copy 
of the original. Also check out Ignite at:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xe49284534efbd5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

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