HP Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 -UX 11i v3 manual Importing a disk group, Newdg, # vxdisk -s list

174Creating and administering disk groups

Importing a disk group

Enter name of disk group [<group>,list,q,?] (default: list)

newdg

5At the following prompt, enter y if you intend to remove the disks in this disk group:

VxVM INFO V-5-2-377 The requested operation is to disable access to the removable disk group named newdg. This disk group is stored on the following disks:

newdg01 on device c1t1d0

You can choose to disable access to (also known as “offline”) these disks. This may be necessary to prevent errors if you actually remove any of the disks from the system.

Disable (offline) the indicated disks? [y,n,q,?] (default: n) y

6At the following prompt, press Return to continue with the operation:

Continue with operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y)

Once the disk group is deported, the vxdiskadm utility displays the following message:

VxVM INFO V-5-2-269 Removal of disk group newdg was successful.

7At the following prompt, indicate whether you want to disable another disk group (y) or return to the vxdiskadm main menu (n):

Disable another disk group? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)

Alternatively, you can use the vxdg command to deport a disk group:

#vxdg deport diskgroup

Importing a disk group

Importing a disk group enables access by the system to a disk group. To move a disk group from one system to another, first disable (deport) the disk group on the original system, and then move the disk between systems and enable (import) the disk group.

To import a disk group

1Use the following command to ensure that the disks in the deported disk group are online:

#vxdisk -s list

2Select menu item 7 (Enable access to (import) a disk group) from the vxdiskadm main menu.

3At the following prompt, enter the name of the disk group to import (in this example, newdg):