HP Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 -UX 11i v3 manual Removing disks

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Administering disks

Removing disks

Removing disks

Note: You must disable a disk group as described in “Disabling a disk group” on page 207 before you can remove the last disk in that group. Alternatively, you can destroy the disk group as described in “Destroying a disk group” on

page 208.

You can remove a disk from a system and move it to another system if the disk is failing or has failed.

To prepare your system for the removal of the disk

1Stop all activity by applications to volumes that are configured on the disk that is to be removed. Unmount file systems and shut down databases that are configured on the volumes.

2Use the following command to stop the volumes:

#vxvol [-g diskgroup] stop volume1 volume2 ...

3Move the volumes to other disks or back up the volumes. To move a volume, use vxdiskadm to mirror the volume on one or more disks, then remove the original copy of the volume. If the volumes are no longer needed, they can be removed instead of moved.

4Check that any data on the disk has either been moved to other disks or is no longer needed.

To remove the disk from its disk group

1Select menu item 2 (Remove a disk) from the vxdiskadm main menu.

2At the following prompt, enter the disk name of the disk to be removed:

Remove a disk

Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/RemoveDisk

Use this operation to remove a disk from a disk group. This operation takes a disk name as input. This is the same name that you gave to the disk when you added the disk to the disk group.

Enter disk name [<disk>,list,q,?] mydg01

3If there are any volumes on the disk, VxVM asks you whether they should be evacuated from the disk. If you wish to keep the volumes, answer y. Otherwise, answer n.

4At the following verification prompt, press Return to continue:

VxVM NOTICE V-5-2-284 Requested operation is to remove disk mydg01 from group mydg.