VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Administrator's Guide

Disk Tasks
Adding a VM Disk to the Hot-Relocation Pool
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Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/MarkSpareDisk
Use this operation to mark a disk as a spare for a disk
group.
This operation takes, as input, a disk name. This is the
same
name that you gave to the disk when you added the disk to
the
disk group.
Enter disk name [<disk>,list,q,?] disk01
Step 3. At the following prompt, indicate whether you want to add more disks as
spares (y) or return to the vxdiskadm main menu (n):
Mark another disk as a spare? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)
Any VM disk in this disk group can now use this disk as a spare in the
event of a failure. If a disk fails, hot-relocation should automatically
occur (if possible). You should be notified of the failure and relocation
through electronic mail. After successful relocation, you may want to
replace the failed disk.