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Booting from a System Disk Shadow Set  



When multiple nodes boot from a common system disk shadow set, ensure that all nodes specify a physical disk that is a source member of the system disk shadow set.

At boot time, the volume shadowing software attempts to construct a complete system disk shadow set based on the shadowing membership information contained in the storage control block (SCB) of the boot device. The SCB is an ODS-2 or ODS-5 file system data structure that resides on each storage device and contains information about shadow set membership (described in Shadow Set Consistency). Depending on what information is in the SCB at boot time, the following scenarios are possible:

The boot process automatically locates all the members of a system disk shadow set. You should not add system disk shadow set members in startup procedures as formerly recommended when phase I shadowing was supported.


CautionDo not add members to a system disk shadow set in startup procedures. Doing so can result in loss of data under the following circumstances:

  1. A system is operating normally with a multiple member system disk shadow set.
  2. The original boot device is removed from the shadow set but remains as a functioning disk.
  3. The system continues with the remaining members.
  4. The system is shut down or it fails.
  5. The system is rebooted using the original boot device (which is now out of date).
  6. The boot process determines that the boot device is not consistent with the other shadow set members and, therefore, does not add them into the shadow set. This behavior preserves the up-to-date data on the other members.
  7. A MOUNT command in the startup procedure adds the other shadow set members to the system disk shadow set.
  8. A copy operation from the boot device to the other shadow set members is initiated, thereby overwriting them.

If the boot device fails, the following console warning message displays:
virtual-unit: does not contain the member named to VMB. 
System may not reboot.
After the boot device has been repaired, manually add it back into the system disk shadow set.
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