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

To use vxdiskadm to remove a disk from the hot-relocation pool
1
Select Turn off the spare flag on a disk from the vxdiskadm main menu.
2
At the following prompt, enter the disk media name of a spare disk (such as
mydg01):
Enter disk name [<disk>,list,q,?] mydg01
The following confirmation is displayed:
VxVM NOTICE V-5-2-143 Disk mydg01 in mydg no longer marked as
a spare disk.
3
At the following prompt, indicate whether you want to disable more spare
disks (y) or return to the vxdiskadm main menu (n):
Turn off spare flag on another disk? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)
Excluding a disk from hot-relocation use
To exclude a disk from hot-relocation use, use the following command:
# vxedit [-g diskgroup] set nohotuse=on diskname
where diskname is the disk media name.
To use vxdiskadm to exclude a disk from hot-relocation use
1
Select Exclude a disk from hot-relocation use from the vxdiskadm
main menu.
2
At the following prompt, enter the disk media name (such as mydg01):
Enter disk name [<disk>,list,q,?] mydg01
The following confirmation is displayed:
VxVM INFO V-5-2-925 Excluding mydg01 in mydg from hot-
relocation use is complete.
3
At the following prompt, indicate whether you want to add more disks to be
excluded from hot-relocation (y) or return to the vxdiskadm main menu (n):
Exclude another disk from hot-relocation use? [y,n,q,?]
(default: n)
415Administering hot-relocation
Excluding a disk from hot-relocation use