Veritas Volume Manager 5.0.1 Administrator's Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009

To initialize disks for VxVM use

Select Add or initialize one or more disks from the vxdiskadm main

menu.

At the following prompt, enter the disk device name of the disk to be added

to VxVM control (or enter list for a list of disks):

Select disk devices to add:

[<pattern-list>,all,list,q,?]

The pattern-list can be a single disk, or a series of disks and/or controllers

(with optional targets). If pattern-list consists of multiple items, separate

them using white space. For example, specify four disks at separate target

IDs on controller 3 as follows:

c3t0d0 c3t1d0 c3t2d0 c3t3d0

If you enter list at the prompt, the vxdiskadm program displays a list of the

disks available to the system:

The phrase online invalid in the STATUS line indicates that a disk has yet

to be added or initialized for VxVM control. Disks that are listed as online

with a disk name and disk group are already under VxVM control.

Enter the device name or pattern of the disks that you want to initialize at

the prompt and press Return.

To continue with the operation, enter y (or press Return) at the following

prompt:

Here are the disks selected. Output format: [Device]

list of device names

Continue operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y) y

At the following prompt, specify the disk group to which the disk should be

added, or none to reserve the disks for future use:

You can choose to add these disks to an existing disk group,

a new disk group, or you can leave these disks available for use

by future add or replacement operations. To create a new disk

group, select a disk group name that does not yet exist. To

leave the disks available for future use, specify a disk group

name of none.

Which disk group [<group>,none,list,q,?]

Administering disks

Adding a disk to VxVM

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