Before Adding new disk to GPFS system, below preparation and knowledge is important and neccesary:
In case you care you should really add the PVID before adding the disk to GPFS. hdisk names mean nothing on AIX thus your hdisk5 might be hdisk6 on the other node. AIX cares about the PVID.
Step 2.1
chdev -l hdiskX -a pv=yes # on all node but NOT in parallel
- Compare
2) I really forgot to mention but it is also very important.
As long as the hdisk names are all the same you will have no problem adding disks to gpfs with given NSD server names.
If the hdisk names are not the same you might run into problems.
The point is: In case you are adding a disk to a GPFS and a NSD server na