HP-UX and Software Raid1

I have installed today an HP-UX 11i V2 on PA-Risc server, and it went quite fine. I have used the “Technical Environment” DVDs for installation, and it went fine. I was unable to find, however, the Raid1 (Mirror) tools for the LVM.

Symptoms: There is no parameter “-m” to “lvextend“. According to documentaion (or even better, HP Forum1 and HP Forum2), it is plain simple, using the lvextend. Only here I got to figure that it was part of the LVM package for Enterprise Servers.

I finally found it in the CD called “Mission Critical Operating Environment DVD 1”. Inside,in a bundle called “HPUX11i-OE-Ent”. I have selected “LVM” from the list there, installed, let the system recompile the kernel, and reboot. Then lvextend will started accepting the “-m” flag.

Per the posts described above, I run:

for LVOL in `ls /dev/vg00/l*` ; do

lvextend -m 1 $LVOL

done

Took a while, but at least it worked.