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

Chapter 4, Creating and Administering Disk Groups
Importing a Disk Group
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2. Select menu item 7 (Enable access to (import) a disk group) from the
vxdiskadm main menu.
3. At the following prompt, enter the name of the disk group to import(in this example,
newdg):
Enable access to (import) a disk group
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/EnableDiskGroup
Use this operation to enable access to a disk group. This can be
used as the final part of moving a disk group from one system to
another. The first part of moving a disk group is to use the
“Remove access to (deport) a disk group” operation on the
original host.
A disk group can be imported from another host that failed
without first deporting the disk group. Be sure that all disks
in the disk group are moved between hosts.
If two hosts share a SCSI bus, be very careful to ensure that
the other host really has failed or has deported the disk group.
If two active hosts import a disk group at the same time, the
disk group will be corrupted and will become unusable.
Select disk group to import [<group>,list,q,?] (default: list)
newdg
Once the import is complete, the vxdiskadm utility displays the following success
message:
The import of newdg was successful.
4. At thefollowing prompt, indicate whether you wantto importanother diskgroup (y)
or return to the vxdiskadm main menu (n):
Select another disk group? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)
Alternatively, you can use the vxdg command to import a disk group:
# vxdg import diskgroup