During the BOS installation phase of 1-Touch AIX recovery, you can select the hard disk devices for rootvg by specifying parameters for the target_disk_data stanza in the bosinst.data file. The bosinst.data file is created during the 1-Touch restore job.
After the target client hardware is provisioned, the system administrator can provide details about the disks to be used when rootvg is created by the AIX BOS installation script.
Procedure
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On the NIM master, create a configuration file.
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To provide default, organization-wide settings that overwrite the Commvault default settings for all NIM clients of the NIM master, create the common.conf file in the 1-Touch_server_directory.
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To provide system-specific settings that overwrite Commvault default settings as well as the organization-wide settings of a specific NIM client, create the nim_client_name.conf file in the 1-Touch_server_directory.
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Add the values for one or more parameters in each section of the configuration file.
The configuration stanza for target disks consists of section header and section values. The section to specify the rootvg disk is named "target-#", where # is a number from 0-9. When multiple disks are required, additional sections can be added with a different "#" value. For example, target-0, target-1, target-2, and so on.
target-0: TARGET_PVID="" TARGET_PHYSICAL_LOCATION="" TARGET_SAN_DISKID="" TARGET_CONNECTION="" TARGET_SIZE_MB=40960 TARGET_HDISKNAME="" target-1: TARGET_SIZE_MB=40960Note
Values with an empty string or with value 0 are not added to the stanza.
1-Touch recovery for AIX reads sections starting from target-0 to target-9 and exit the loop when the next section is not present or if the values in a section contains all empty strings or 0 values.
In the above example, the following record is added to the bosinit.data file so the BOS installation uses two disks of size 40960 MB to create the rootvg disk:
target_disk_data stanza: SIZE_MB=40960 target_disk_data stanza: SIZE_MB=40960