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

At the following prompt, enter the name of the disk group to import (in this

example, newdg):

Select disk group to import [<group>,list,q,?] (default: list)

newdg

When the import finishes, the vxdiskadm utility displays the following success

message:

VxVM INFO V-5-2-374 The import of newdg was successful.

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

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

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

You can also use the following vxdg command to import a disk group:

# vxdg import diskgroup

You can also import the disk group as a shared disk group.

See “Importing disk groups as shared” on page 455.

Setting the automatic recovery of volumes

By default, VxVM recovers and starts any disabled volumes in the disk group when

you import the disk group. To prevent VxVM from recovering the disabled volumes,

turn off the automatic volume recovery. For example, after importing the disk

group, you may want to do some maintenance before starting the volumes.

To turn off the automatic volume recovery feature

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Use the following vxdefault command to turn off automatic volume recovery.

# vxdefault set autostartvolumes off

Handling of minor number conflicts

The volume device minor numbers in a disk group to be imported may conflict

with existing volume devices. In previous releases of VxVM, the conflicts resulted

in failures. Either the disk group import operation failed, or the slave node failed

to join a shared disk group. When this situation happened, you had to run the

vxdg reminor command manually to resolve the minor conflicts. Starting with

this release, VxVM can automatically resolve minor number conflicts.

Creating and administering disk groups

Handling of minor number conflicts

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