How do I import and use a hardware snapshot of an LVM volume group?

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Issue

  • Part of a disaster recovery process requires systems to have multiple copies (snapshots) of production data presented to hosts at one time. How do I properly change the UUIDs of the associated volume group (VG) and physical volume (PV) of snapshot or cloned VGs so that they can be mounted all at the same time?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • LVM2
  • SAN-based VG snapshots/clones

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