VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Administrator's Guide

Disk Tasks

Removing a VM Disk From the Hot-Relocation Pool

Chapter 4192

Removing a VM Disk From the Hot-Relocation

Pool

NOTE You may need an additional license to use this feature.

While a disk is designated as a spare, the space on that disk is not used

as free space for the creation of Volume Manager objects within its disk

group. If necessary, you can free a spare disk for general use by removing

it from the pool of hot-relocation disks.

To verify which disks are currently designated as spares, select the list

menu item from the vxdiskadm main menu. Disks that are spares are

listed with the spare ﬂag.

Removing a Disk with vxdiskadm

To remove a disk from the hot-relocation pool, do the following:

Step 1. Select menu item 12 (Turn off the spare flag on a disk) from

the vxdiskadm main menu.

Step 2. At the following prompt, enter the name of a spare disk (such as

disk01):

Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/UnmarkSpareDisk

Use this operation to turn off the spare flag on a disk.

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

The vxdiskadm program displays the following conﬁrmation:

Disk disk01 in rootdg no longer marked as a spare disk.

Step 3. At the following prompt, indicate whether you want to disable more

spare disks (y) or return to the vxdiskadm main menu (n):