VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide

Creating a Disk Group for a Database Prerelease 8 September 2005, 8:54am
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# /opt/VRTS/bin/vxdg init PRODddg PRODdg01=
Example
To create a disk group named PRODdg on a raw disk partition, where the disk name PRODdg01
references the disk within the disk group:
# /opt/VRTS/bin/vxdg init PRODdg PRODdg01=Disk_0
▼ To create a new disk group using the GUI
1. Select the Disk Groups folder.
2. Select Actions > New Disk Group.
The New Disk Group wizard welcome appears.
3. You can suppress the Welcome to Create New Disk Group page by selecting the Do not
show this page next time checkbox.
4. Click Next to continue. The New Disk Group wizard appears. Enter the following
information:
5. When you have provided all the necessary information in the dialog box, click Next.
6. Click Next to add the disks.
7. The Organization principle screen now appears.
Group name: Enter a new disk group name in the Group Name field.
Create cluster group If the cluster feature is available, you can select the Create cluster group
checkbox if the new disk group is to be used with clusters.
Available disks:
Selected disks:
Select which disks (from Available disks:) you want to include in the
group. Make sure the disks you want to include are in the right pane of the
window (Selected disks:).
(Normally, you would add all the disks you want in the group at this point.
However, you can always add more disks later with the Add Disk to Disk
Group procedure.)
Disk names: Type in the names of any disks to be added that do not appear under
Selected disks:.