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Assumption : We have taken SAN disk with LUN ID : DGA2021, You may choose any SAN with available LUN ID. 1.     Initialize the disk            init $1$dga2021: /cluster=16 /header=100000/limit/owner=system/nohigh m_dump 2.        Mount the disk with proper Volume label mount/system $1$dga2021: m_dump m_dump 3.        Create Directory for proper path               create/dir m_dump:[sys0.sysexe] 4.        Create DUMP.DMP file using SYSGEN Utility            mc sysgen create m_dump:[sys0.sysexe]sysdump.dmp /size=12000000 /cont     5.        Verify DUMP.DMP file size which is recently created using SYSGEN utility             dir/size=all m_dump:[sys0.sysexe]sysdump.dmp 6.   ...

1.         POWER CYCLE THE SERVER . (1) FIRST GO TO CONSOL BY ENTERING CO (2) GO TO COMMAND MENU BY ENTERING CM (3) FOR POWER CYCLE SELECT PC AS AN OPTION (4) PRESS C       DURING THE POWER CYCLE IS COMPLETE PRESS CTRL+B FOR MP CONSOL MAIN        MENU THEN SEE CONSOL BY PRESSING CO       MONITIOR THE CONSOLE      AFTER SOMETIME IT WILL ASK FOR BOOT OPTIONS.      FROM THERE SELECT “S” AS AN OPTION. FOR LUNCHING UEFI 2.       YOU WILL NOW ON THE SHELL PROMPT. 3.         HERE CHECK ON WHICH “FS” REMOVBLE DISK IS CONNECTED. Here in this on “fs2” removable media is connected. You will see USB in the description string for removable media. 4.       TO ENTER INTO FS2: --- WRITE FS2: AS AN COMMAND 5. ...

Assuming the translation of the SYS$TOPSYS logical name is SYS0, the system is bootstrapping from the default system root and you will use one of the following commands to initiate a conversational reboot: on Alpha : >>> b -fl 0,1 on IA64 : Go to to Shell >  prompt and navigate yourself to below path. fs n :\efi\vms> vms_loader -flags 0,1 NOTE : Where  n  represent boot partition Once you have triggered a conversational bootstrap and have reached the SYSBOOT prompt, you will  want to request that OpenVMS read the system startup commands directly from the system console. This, in place of reading the startup commands from the default OpenVMS system startup procedure, SYS$SYSTEM: STARTUP.COM . You will also want to disable the windowing system, if any, and you will want to request that the parameter changes not be recorded. SYSBOOT> SET/STARTUP OPA0: SYSBOOT> SET WINDOW_SYSTEM 0 SYSBOOT> SET WRITESYS...