Disk-group Versioning

Diskgroup Versioning:

All disk groups have a version number based on the VxVM release. Each disk group version supports a set of features. You must upgrade old disk group versions in order to use new features.

Upgrading a Disk Group: VEA

In the Disk Group Properties windows:

• If the current version property is yes, then the disk group version is current.
• The Version Property display the version number

To upgrade a disk group:

Select the disk group to be upgraded.

Select Actions--> Upgrade Disk Group Version.

Confirm the upgrade when prompted.

Note: You cannot upgrade to a specific version using VEA. You can only upgrade to the current version. To upgrade to a specific, use a CLI Command.

To Display the disk group version

Syntax: vxdg list newdg

# vxdg list prdadg

Group:     prdadg

dgid:      1076981502.2521.ljcqs027

import-id: 1024.19637

flags:     cds

version:   110

alignment: 8192 (bytes)

ssb:            on

autotagging:    off

detach-policy: global

dg-fail-policy: invalid

copies:    nconfig=default nlog=default

config:    seqno=0.2361 permlen=1280 free=1166 templen=49 loglen=192

To upgrade the disk group version:

Syntax: vxdg [-T version] upgrade diskgroup

To upgrade datadg from version 40 the current version:

# vxdg upgrade datadg