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

Disabling and Enabling Multipathing for Specific Devices
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As a result of this operation, the specified paths will be excluded
from the view of VxVM. This operation can be reversed using the
vxdiskadm command.
You can specify a pathname or a pattern at the prompt. Here are
some path selection examples:
all: all paths
c3t4d2: a single path
list: list all paths on the system
Enter a pathname or pattern:[<Pattern>,all,list,list-exclude,q?]
❖ Select option3 to exclude disksfrom the viewof VxVM that match aspecified Vendor
ID and Product ID.
Note This option requires a reboot of the system.
Exclude VID:PID from VxVM
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/ExcludeDevices/VIDPID-VXVM
Use this operation to exclude disks returning a specified
VendorID:ProductID combination from VxVM.
As a result of this operation, all disks that return
VendorID:ProductID matching the specified combination will be
excluded from the view of VxVM. This operation can be reversed
using the vxdiskadm command.
You can specify a VendorID:ProductID pattern at the prompt. The
specification can be as follows:
VID:PID where VID stands for Vendor ID
PID stands for Product ID
(The command vxdmpinq in /etc/vx/diag.d can be used to obtain the
Vendor ID and Product ID)
Both VID and PID can have an optional ’*’ (asterisk) following
them.
If a ’*’ follows VID, it will result in the exclusion of all disks
returning Vendor ID starting with the specified VID. The same is
true for Product ID as well. Both VID and PID should be non NULL.
The maximum allowed lengths for VendorID and ProductID are 8 and 16
characters respectively.
Some examples of VID:PID specification are: