How to get the same VGs and LVs from SAN devices after resinstaling the server hardware.

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Issue

  • How to get the same VGs and LVs from SAN devices after resinstaling the server.
  • We are migrating to RHEL6 by installing RHEL6 on an existing RHEL5 server. How to get the VGs and LVs that are present in RHEL5 into RHEL6. Physical Volume devices to these VGs are devices from external storage.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux all versions
    • Physical Volumes on external storage and migrating to another RHEL version or reinstalling the server.

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