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

To disable multipathing and make devices invisible to VxVM
1
Run the vxdiskadm command, and select Prevent multipathing/Suppress
devices from VxVM’s view from the main menu. You are prompted to
confirm whether you want to continue.
2
Select the operation you want to perform from the following options:
Supresses all paths through the specified controller from the
view of VxVM.
Option 1
Supresses specified paths from the view of VxVM.Option 2
Supresses disks from the view of VxVM that match a specified
Vendor ID and Product ID combination.
Option 3
Supresses all but one path to a disk. Only one path is made visible
to VxVM.
Option 4
Prevents multipathing for all disks on a specified controller by
VxVM.
Option 5
Prevents multipathing of a disk by VxVM. The disks that
correspond to a specified path are claimed in the OTHER_DISKS
category and are not multipathed.
Option 6
Prevents multipathing for disks that match a specified Vendor
ID and Product ID combination. The disks that correspond to a
specified Vendor ID and Product ID combination are claimed in
the OTHER_DISKS category and are not multipathed.
Option 7
Lists the devices that are currently suppressed or not
multipathed.
Option 8
Enabling multipathing and making devices visible to
VxVM
Use this procedure to re-enable multipathing for a device, or to make a device
visible to VxVM again.
Administering Dynamic Multipathing
Enabling multipathing and making devices visible to VxVM
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