Veritas Storage Foundation Portable Data Containers: Cross-Platform Data Sharing 5.0.1 Administrators Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009

Setting up your system

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ Creating CDS disks from uninitialized disks

■ Creating CDS disks from initialized VxVM disks

■ Creating CDS disk groups

■ Converting non-CDS disks to CDS disks

■ Converting a non-CDS disk group to a CDS disk group

■ Verifying licensing

■ Defaults files

Creating CDS disks from uninitialized disks

You can create a CDS disk from an uninitialized disk by using one of the following

methods:

■ Creating CDS disks by using vxdisksetup

■ Creating CDS disks by using vxdiskadm

Creating CDS disks by using vxdisksetup

To create a CDS disk by using the vxdisksetup command

■ Type the following command:

# vxdisksetup -i disk [format=disk_format]

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