VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Administrator's Guide

Disk Tasks
Placing Disks Under Volume Manager Control
Chapter 4168
When initializing multiple disks at one time, it is possible to exclude
certain disks or certain controllers. To exclude disks, list the names of
the disks to be excluded in the file /etc/vx/disks.exclude before the
initialization. You can exclude all disks on specific controllers from
initialization by listing those controllers in the file
/etc/vx/cntrls.exclude.
Place multiple disks under Volume Manager control at one time as
follows:
Step 1. Select menu item 1 (Add or initialize one or more disks)
from the vxdiskadm main menu.
Step 2. At the following prompt, enter the pattern-list for the disks to be
added to Volume Manager control. In this case, enter c3 to indicate all
disks on controller 3:
Add or initialize disks
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/AddDisks
Use this operation to add one or more disks to a disk
group.
You can add the selected disks to an existing disk group
or to
a new disk group that will be created as a part of the
operation. The selected disks may also be added to a disk
group
as spares. The selected disks may also be initialized
without
adding them to a disk group leaving the disks available
for use
as replacement disks.
More than one disk or pattern may be entered at the
prompt. Here
are some disk selection examples:
all:all disks
c3 c4t2:all disks on both controller 3 and controller
4,target 2
c3t4d0:a single disk
Select disk devices to add:
[<pattern-list>,all,list,q,?] c3
where <pattern-list> can be a single disk, or a series of disks and/or
controllers (with optional targets). If <pattern-list> consists of
multiple items, those items must be separated by white space.