On 13/11/2014 8:27 AM, "lee" <lee@yagibdah.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> what's the best way to move existing logical volumes or a whole volume
> group to new disks?
>
> The target disks cannot be installed at the same time as the source
> disks. I will have to make some sort of copy over the network to
> another machine, remove the old disks, install the new disks and put the
> copy in place.
>
> Using dd doesn't seem to be a good option because extend sizes in the
> old VG can be different from the extend sizes used in the new VG.
>
> The LVs contain VMs. The VMs can be shut down during the migration.
> It's not possible to make snapshots because the VG is full.
>
> New disks will be 6x1TB RAID-5, old ones are 2x74GB RAID-1 on a
> ServeRaid 8k. No more than 6 discs can be installed at the same time.
>
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How about this, sdf is one of the new disks sdb is old that needs replacement:
Attach sdf and add it to the vg
# pvcreate /dev/sdf
# vgextend vg1 /dev/sdf
Move the data
# pvmove /dev/sdb /dev/sdf
Remove the old disk from vg1
# vgreduce vg1 /dev/sdb
Take out sdb, attach new drive and repeat the procedure. No need to unmound the filesystem for pvmove. Having backup is of course recommended.