Veritas Volume Manager 5.1 SP1 Administrator"s Guide (5900-1506, April 2011)
Administering disks
This chapter includes the following topics:
■ About disk management
■ Disk devices
■ Discovering and configuring newly added disk devices
■ Disks under VxVM control
■ Changing the disk-naming scheme
■ About the Array Volume Identifier (AVID) attribute
■ Discovering the association between enclosure-based disk names and OS-based
disk names
■ About disk installation and formatting
■ Displaying or changing default disk layout attributes
■ Adding a disk to VxVM
■ RAM disk support in VxVM
■ Veritas Volume Manager co-existence with Oracle Automatic Storage
Management (ASM) disks
■ Rootability
■ Displaying disk information
■ Controlling Powerfail Timeout
■ Removing disks
■ Removing a disk from VxVM control
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