Veritas Volume Manager 5.1 SP1 Administrator"s Guide (5900-1506, April 2011)

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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,?]

If you specified the name of a disk group that does not already exist, vxdiskadm

prompts for confirmation that you really want to create this new disk group:

There is no active disk group named disk group name.

Create a new group named disk group name? [y,n,q,?]

(default: y)y

You are then prompted to confirm whether the disk group should support

the Cross-platform Data Sharing (CDS) feature:

Create the disk group as a CDS disk group? [y,n,q,?]

(default: n)

Administering disks

Adding a disk to VxVM

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