Concat Meta -> Striped Meta

Ah, that's handy. I'll go have a rummage. I didn't realise you could do that.

You can convert Concatenated to Striped Metas on-line with the help of BCV. Search powerlink for exact procedure/limitations.

emc122723 - "Converting a non-Striped Meta to a Striped Meta fails at 5x71"

emc208491 - "Cannot convert concatenated meta device to striped meta."

emc164363 - "Symmetrix DMX-3: Unable to convert concatenated meta to striped meta at 5771"

emc143927 - "Error: Selected BCV-Meta: 01B2 is Not Compatible to Meta: 005A"

emc212794 - "Cannot create a stripe meta using RAID5 device and protect data option"

These are some of the Primus Solutions I have. (Unfortunetly no one is how to do it :-), only related issues)

I'm thinking either: Create new striped volumes to replace the existing concat volumes, copy all the data (host, or TF/Clone) and swap them out. Maybe doing it in a rotation (dissolve, reassemble one, and reshuffle them all).

if memory serves me well TF/Clone would not work, meta config has to be identical between source and target. Is this a windows box ?

I can think of two options

1.convert meta from the symconfigure.verify the primus case mc208491

2.backup restore

Let me know how this works.

This is a VMWare ESX cluster, so what we'll be doing is a 'convert' without protection.

We'll use VMotion to shift the VMs off as many disks as we can, covert them, and reshuffle the VMs to do the same again.

For reference, the command is:

convert meta 0D4, config=striped, protect_data=FALSE;

convert meta 0D5, config=striped, protect_data=TRUE, BCV_Meta_head=0FA0;

In order to do this, your BCV meta should be either mirrored or unprotected - it doesn't work with RAID 5 (at least, not on our code version).

But as mentioned, we're not doing that, we're just trashing and rebuildign some of the LUNs.