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Online LUN expansion and partition resizing without reboot under Linux

If you are in the need of expanding the LUN where your Linux is installed without rebooting the server, then may be that here you can find the right answer. Your Linux must be sufficiently recent to support features like LVM version 2, ext3 on-line resizing and so on.

My setup in tihs test is the [...]

SAN Migration and Linux Storage Device issues

The scenario is the following:

- SAN migration from an old EMC Clariion CX-500 to a new CX3-40

- 2 Linux RedHat 3.0 AS and Oracle RAC 9.2 with OCFS 1.x

The goal is to migrate all the Oracle Data partition (1 LUN in this case) to the new SAN using EMC SAN Copy.

All the host will be [...]

SAN Migration and VMware issues

The scenario is the following:

- SAN migration from an old EMC Clariion CX-500 to a new CX3-40

- Several Vmware ESX 3.x nodes all with 2 HBAs

The goal is to migrate all the VMware LUNs to the new SAN using EMC SAN Copy.

All the host will be powered off (yes we can live with this…).

The main [...]