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

Administering disks

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About disk management

■ Disk devices

■ Discovering and configuring newly added disk devices

■ Disks under VxVM control

■ Changing the disk-naming scheme

■ About the Array Volume Identifier (AVID) attribute

■ Discovering the association between enclosure-based disk names and OS-based

disk names

■ About disk installation and formatting

■ Displaying or changing default disk layout attributes

■ Adding a disk to VxVM

■ RAM disk support in VxVM

■ Veritas Volume Manager co-existence with Oracle Automatic Storage

Management (ASM) disks

■ Rootability

■ Displaying disk information

■ Controlling Powerfail Timeout

■ Removing disks

■ Removing a disk from VxVM control

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