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• Disks containing an active membership partition can be imported;

however, the partition containing the active membership partition

cannot be used for a filesystem. Before importing the disk, you can run

mprepair to inactivate the membership partition (see “Manage

Membership Partitions with mprepair” on page 193). You will then be

able to use the partition when you import the disk into the matrix.

• If you import a large number of disks sequentially, it can take several

minutes to complete the imports. The imports will be faster if you

specify all of the disks in one operation, either by selecting multiple

disks on the Import Disks window or by specifying multiple disks on

the mx disk import command line.

To import disks using the PolyServe Management Console, select Storage

> Disk > Import or click the Import icon on the toolbar. The Import Disks

window, which appears next, shows all SAN disks that are not currently

imported into the matrix. The disk descriptions include the vendor, the

disk’s UID, and its size. The Info column specifies the FC switch used to

access the disk. Select the disks that you want to import from this

window.

To import a disk from the command line, use the following command:

mx disk import <uuid> ...