HP Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 -UX 11i v3 manual 196

Creating and administering disk groups 197

Reorganizing the contents of disk groups

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 Figure 4-5.

Figure 4-5 Disk group split operation

Source disk group

Disks to be split into new disk group

Source disk group	After	New target disk group
	split

■join—removes all VxVM objects from an imported disk group and moves them to an imported target disk group. The source disk group is removed when the join is complete. The join operation is illustrated in Figure 4-6.