Recover failed or unreachable segment host to a new host

Products

• VMware Tanzu Greenplum
• Greenplum
• Pivotal Data Suite Non Production Edition
• VMware Tanzu Data Suite
• VMware Tanzu Data Suite

Issue/Introduction

Segment server host can get physically damaged and could be left unrecoverable.

This article discusses how to recover segments to a different backup host,

It is possible to change the directory location of the segment data and/or the ports used by the failed segments.

 

Environment

Resolution

Recovery of segments is described in the documentation Recovering from Segment Failures. It describes how to recover segments in the normal way and how to recover to a different host.