AIX: How to synchronize more PP/LP in parallel by LVM NUM_PARALLEL_LPS

Command syncvg can be customized to synchronize different number of LPs in parallel
syncvg -p <#>

If you use mirrorvg you can set environment variable NUM_PARALLEL_LPS before running command:

export NUM_PARALLEL_LPS=<#>

Value <#> can be number in range of 1-32

AIX: migratepv 0516-404 allocp: This system cannot fulfill the allocation request

I have faced issue with migratepv command.
I wanted to migrate PPs from hdisk3 to hdisk2 in same scalable volume group.
Command has failed even there were enough PPs on hdisk2.


migratepv hdisk3 hdisk2
0516-404 allocp: This system cannot fulfill the allocation request.
        There are not enough free partitions or not enough physical volumes
        to keep strictness and satisfy allocation requests.  The command
        should be retried with different allocation characteristics.
0516-132 lmigratelv: Incorrect entry in partition map file.
0516-134 lmigratelv: Received: 00f73e7044ccd502 110

0516-136 lmigratelv: Error reading input map.
0516-812 migratepv: Warning, migratepv did not completely succeed;
        all physical partitions have not been moved off the PV.

I had to run reorgvg to fix this issue.
It seems to be a bug in LVM because I can't see any reason of described behavior.

Breaking limits of LVM, Physical Partitions, Volume Groups in AIX

Are you facing the situation that you can not extend LUN or mirror smaller LUNs to one big LUN in AIX because you reached limit of Physical Partitions in Volume Group?

extendvg VGname hdisk4
      0516-1254 extendvg: Changing the PVID in the ODM.
      0516-1162 extendvg: Warning, The Physical Partition Size of 512 requires the
              creation of 1140 partitions for hdisk4.  The limitation for volume group
              VGname is 1016 physical partitions per physical volume.  Use chvg command
              with -t option to attempt to change the maximum Physical Partitions per
              Physical volume for this volume group.

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