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

At the following prompt, vxdiskadm asks if you want to use the default private

region size of 32768 blocks (32 MB). Press Return to confirm that you want

to use the default value, or enter a different value. (The maximum value that

you can specify is 524288 blocks.)

Enter desired private region length [<privlen>,q,?]

(default: 32768)

If one of more mirror plexes were moved from the disk, you are now prompted

whether FastResync should be used to resynchronize the plexes:

Use FMR for plex resync? [y,n,q,?] (default: n) y

vxdiskadm displays the following success message:

VxVM NOTICE V-5-2-158 Disk replacement completed successfully.

At the following prompt, indicate whether you want to remove another disk

(y) or return to the vxdiskadm main menu (n):

Remove another disk? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)

It is possible to move hot-relocate subdisks back to a replacement disk.

See “Configuring hot-relocation to use only spare disks” on page 416.

Replacing a failed or removed disk

The following procedure describes how to replace a failed or removed disk.

To specify a disk that has replaced a failed or removed disk

Select Replace a failed or removed disk from the vxdiskadm main menu.

At the following prompt, enter the name of the disk to be replaced (or enter

list for a list of disks):

Select a removed or failed disk [<disk>,list,q,?] mydg02

Administering disks

Removing and replacing disks

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