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

Provisioning new usable

storage

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ Provisioning new usable storage

■ Growing the existing storage by adding a new LUN

■ Growing the existing storage by growing the LUN

Provisioning new usable storage

The following procedure describes how to provision new usable storage.

To provision new usable storage

Set up the LUN. See the documentation for your storage array for information

about how to create, mask, and bind the LUN.

Initialize the LUNs for Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM), using one of the

following commands:

# vxdisksetup -i 3PARDATA0_1

# vxdisk init 3PARDATA0_1

Add the LUN to a disk group.

■ If you do not have a disk group for your LUN, create the disk group:

# vxdg init dg1 dev1=3PARDATA0_1

■ If you already have a disk group for your LUN, add the LUN to the disk

group:

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