VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Administrator's Guide (September 2002)

Chapter 3, Administering Dynamic Multipathing (DMP)
Disabling and Enabling Multipathing for Specific Devices
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Do you want to continue ? [y,n,q,?] (default: y)
2. Select the operation you want to perform from the displayed list:
Exclude Devices
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/ExcludeDevices
1 Suppress all paths through a controller from VxVM’s view
2 Suppress a path from VxVM’s view
3 Suppress disks from VxVM’s view by specifying a VID:PID
combination
4 Suppress all but one paths to a disk
5 Prevent multipathing of all disks on a controller by VxVM
6 Prevent multipathing of a disk by VxVM
7 Prevent multipathing of disks by specifying a VID:PID
combination
8 List currently suppressed/non-multipathed devices
? Display help about menu
?? Display help about the menuing system
q Exit from menus
Select an operation to perform:
❖ Select option 1 to exclude all paths through the specified controller from the view of
VxVM. These paths remain in the disabled state until the next reboot, or until the
paths are re-included.
Exclude controllers from VxVM
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/ExcludeDevices/CTLR-VXVM
Use this operation to exclude all paths through a controller from
VxVM.
This operation can be reversed using the vxdiskadm command.
You can specify a controller name at the prompt. A controller name
is of the form c#, example c3, c11 etc. Enter ’all’ to exclude all
paths on all the controllers on the host. To see the list of
controllers on the system, type ’list’.
Enter a controller name:[ctlr_name,all,list,list-exclude,q,?]
❖ Select option 2 to exclude specified paths from the view of VxVM.
Exclude paths from VxVM
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/ExcludeDevices/PATH-VXVM
Use this operation to exclude one or more paths from VxVM.