Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager Software Users Guide for AIX (6.6) (T5208-96010, April 2011)

4. HDLM Operation
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5. Execute the following command to make sure that the status of the hdisks
recognized as HDLM-managed devices is
Available.
# lsdev -Cc disk
hdisk0 Available 1S-08-00-8,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive
hdisk1 Available 1S-08-00-9,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive
hdisk2 Available 1S-08-00-10,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive
hdisk3 Available 1H-08-02 Hitachi Disk Array (Fibre)
hdisk4 Available 1H-08-02 Hitachi Disk Array (Fibre)
...
In this example, hdisk3 and hdisk4 are recognized as HDLM-managed
devices.
If the status of all hdisks is
Available, proceed to step 7. If there are any hdisks
with the
Defined status, proceed to step 6.
6. Execute the following command to change the hdisk status to
Available.
# cfgmgr
After executing the command, perform step 5 again.
7. Check the setting for the hdisk reservation policy attribute.
Make sure that the changed default value is reflected in the value actually used.
# lsattr -El
hdisk-name | grep reserve_policy
reserve_policy no_reserve Reserve Policy TRUE
8. Activate the volume group used by HDLM.
# varyonvg
volume-group-name
9. Mount the file system used by HDLM.
# mount
file-system-mount-point
(2) Manually Performing hdisk Reconfiguration
The procedure below explains how to manually reconfigure an hdisk.
Note:
In the procedure below, if you execute the dlmchpdattr utility without performing