Administering disks 99

Adding a disk to VxVM

3To continue with the operation, enter y (or press Return) at the following prompt:

Here are the disks selected. Output format: [Device]list of device namesContinue operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y) y

4At the following prompt, specify the disk group to which the disk should be added, or none to reserve the disks for future use:

You can choose to add these disks to an existing disk group, a new disk group, or you can leave these disks available for use by future add or replacement operations. To create a new disk group, select a disk group name that does not yet exist. To leave the disks available for future use, specify a disk group name of “none”.

Which disk group [<group>,none,list,q,?]

5If you specified the name of a disk group that does not already exist, vxdiskadm prompts for confirmation that you really want to create this new disk group:

There is no active disk group named disk group name.Create a new group named disk group name? [y,n,q,?] (default: y)y

You are then prompted to confirm whether the disk group should support the Cross-platform Data Sharing (CDS) feature:

Create the disk group as a CDS disk group? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)

If the new disk group may be moved between different operating system platforms, enter y. Otherwise, enter n.

6At the following prompt, either press Return to accept the default disk name or enter n to allow you to define your own disk names:

Use default disk names for the disks? [y,n,q,?] (default: y)

7When prompted whether the disks should become hot-relocation spares, enter n (or press Return):

Add disks as spare disks for disk group name? [y,n,q,?] (default: n) n

8When prompted whether to exclude the disks from hot-relocation use, enter n (or press Return).

Exclude disks from hot-relocation use? [y,n,q,?} (default: n) n

9You are next prompted to choose whether you want to add a site tag to the disks:

Add site tag to disks? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)