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

Administering disks

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About disk management

■ Disk devices

■ Discovering and configuring newly added disk devices

■ Disks under VxVM control

■ Changing the disk-naming scheme

■ Discovering the association between enclosure-based disk names and OS-based

disk names

■ Disk installation and formatting

■ Displaying or changing default disk layout attributes

■ Adding a disk to VxVM

■ Rootability

■ Dynamic LUN expansion

■ Removing disks

■ Removing a disk from VxVM control

■ Removing and replacing disks

■ Enabling a disk

■ Taking a disk offline

■ Renaming a disk

■ Reserving disks

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