Volume Group Migration Question

[dorth]

Hello all,
We have a p6000 e server running AIX 5.1.0.0 patch 5100-03. We have a
large Volume Group consisting of multiple smaller logical volumes (in
a kingston disk box) mounted as a single mount point called "/DATA".

We will be getting a newer Pserver (new hardware new kernel everything
new) except we want to be able to use the disk set I mentioned above
with all of the data on it intact on the new server. The AIX version
will be 5.1 or newer. this will not be an upgrade but a fresh
install.

My question is the following. Is this a simple thing where I can
simply plug in the kingston disk box and see my Volume group? Is
there some special preparation or setup that must be performed or is
there no way that I can migrate a Volume Group with data on it to a
new machine?

Thanks.

[dorth]

"Brandon Boles" <email@nowhere.foo> wrote in message news:<pan.2003.07.08.05.02.42.68970@nowhere.foo>.. .

> First of all, I am not familiar with these Kingston drives you are talking
> about, so I am assuming that they are just SCSI drives.
>
> As long as the VG is good on the disks when you unplug the external
> drives, you should be able to plug in the disk array into a SCSI card on
> the new box and AIX should at least recognize the disks as generic SCSI
> disks. At that point, you should be able to 'importvg' the VG on the
> array and everything should be there as you left it. Keep in mind that if
> there are any logical volumes that are already in existence on the new box
> that have the same name as any logical volumes on the disk array,
> 'importvg' will rename the new ones so they don't clash.
>
> Definitely make sure you have good backups before doing this, just in
> case...
>

Thank You Brandon!! It went perfectly!