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

To disable multi-pathing 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:
Suppresses all paths through the specified controller from the
view of VxVM.
Option 1
Suppresses specified paths from the view of VxVM.Option 2
Suppresses disks from the view of VxVM that match a specified
Vendor ID and Product ID combination.
The root disk cannot be suppressed.
Option 3
Suppresses all but one path to a disk. Only one path is made
visible to VxVM.
Option 4
Prevents multi-pathing for all disks on a specified controller by
VxVM.
Option 5
Prevents multi-pathing of a disk by VxVM. The disks that
correspond to a specified path are claimed in the OTHER_DISKS
category and are not multi-pathed.
Option 6
Prevents multi-pathing for the 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 multi-pathed.
Option 7
Lists the devices that are currently suppressed or not
multi-pathed.
Option 8
Enabling multi-pathing and making devices visible to
VxVM
Use this procedure to re-enable multi-pathing for a device, or to make a device
visible to VxVM again.
153Administering Dynamic Multi-Pathing
Enabling multi-pathing and making devices visible to VxVM