VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Cross-Platform Data Sharing Administrator's Guide

Setting up Your System

This chapter describes how to set up your initial CDS system. It includes information on:

◆ Creating CDS Disks from Uninitialized Disks

◆ Creating CDS Disks from Initialized VxVM Disks

◆ Creating CDS Disk Groups

◆ Converting a Non-CDS Disk to a CDS Disk

◆ Converting a Non-CDS Disk Group to a CDS Disk Group

◆ Licensing

◆ Defaults Files

Creating CDS Disks from Uninitialized Disks

To create a CDS disk from an uninitialized disk, use one of the following commands:

◆ vxdisksetup

◆ vxdiskadm

Using vxdisksetup

To create a CDS disk, use the vxdisksetup command:

# vxdisksetup -i disk

The format defaults to cdsdisk unless overridden by the /etc/default/vxdisk file (refer

to “Defaults Files” on page 17).

Alternatively, you can override the default format by specifying the format attribute:

# vxdisksetup -i disk format=cdsdisk

See the vxdisksetup(1M) manual page for more information.