<shpot4@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I am interested in finding out what other people have setup in regards
> to mirroring rootvg and the configuration of sysdump devices. I've
> been reading that mirroring dump device is not a good idea. My hdisk0
> and hdisk1 are mirrored to eachother. I'm thinking that I should place
> a primary dump device lg_dumplv on hdisk0 and a secondary dump device
> lg_dumplv_1 on hdisk1. Is this the normal configuration that you use?
> If not, please give me suggestions. I am eager to learn what other
> people are doing.
>
> Cheers!
>

Yes, that is the best practice for dump device. Mirroring and using
compression will usually cause a corrupt dump, and that kind of defeats the
purpose of the dump device. I have found this out the hard way, and all my
servers are now configured with lg_dumplv and lg_dump2lv
Doug