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

See “Adding unsupported disk arrays to the DISKS category” on page 94.

Disks in JBODs that do not fall into any supported category, and which are not

capable of being multipathed by DMP are placed in the OTHER_DISKS category.

Adding support for a new disk array

You can dynamically add support for a new type of disk array. The support comes

in the form of Array Support Libraries (ASLs) that are developed by Symantec.

Symantec provides support for new disk arrays through updates to the VRTSaslapm

depot. To determine if an updated VRTSaslapm depot is available for download,

refer to the hardware compatibility list tech note. The hardware compatibility list

provides a link to the latest depot for download and instructions for installing the

VRTSaslapm depot. You can upgrade the VRTSaslapm depot while the system is

online; you do not need to stop the applications.

To access the hardware compatibility list, go to the following URL:

http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/330441

The new disk array does not need to be already connected to the system when the

VRTSaslapm depot is installed. If any of the disks in the new disk array are

subsequently connected, you need to trigger OS device discovery using the ioscan

command followed by the insf command. Then trigger DDL device discovery

using the vxdctl enable command.

See “Adding new LUNs dynamically to a new target ID” on page 202.

If you need to remove the latest VRTSaslapm depot, you can revert to the previously

installed version. For the detailed procedure, refer to the Veritas Volume Manager

Troubleshooting Guide.

Enabling discovery of new disk arrays

The vxdctl enable command scans all of the disk devices and their attributes,

updates the VxVM device list, and reconfigures DMP with the new device database.

There is no need to reboot the host.

Warning: This command ensures that Dynamic Multi-Pathing is set up correctly

for the array. Otherwise, VxVM treats the independent paths to the disks as

separate devices, which can result in data corruption.

To enable discovery of a new disk array

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Type the following command:

# vxdctl enable

Administering disks

Discovering and configuring newly added disk devices