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

Chapter 4, Creating and Administering Disk Groups
Reorganizing the Contents of Disk Groups
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◆ split—removes a self-contained set of VxVM objects from an imported disk group,
and moves them to a newly created target disk group. This operation fails if it would
remove all the disks from the source disk group, or if an imported disk group exists
with the same name as the target disk group. An existing deported disk group is
destroyed if it has the same name as the target disk group (as is the case for the vxdg
init command). The split operation is illustrated in “Disk Group Split Operation”
below.
Disk Group Split Operation
Source Disk Group
Source Disk Group New Target Disk Group
After
split
Disks to be split into new disk group