VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Administrator's Guide

Disk Tasks
Including a Disk for Hot-Relocation Use
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Including a Disk for Hot-Relocation Use
NOTE You may need an additional license to use this feature.
Free space is used automatically by hot-relocation on case spare space is
not sufficient to relocate failed subdisks. The user can limit this free
space usage by hot-relocation by specifying which free disks should not
be touched by hot-relocation. If a disk was previously excluded from
hot-relocation use, you can undo the exclusion and add the disk back to
the hot-relocation pool.
To make a disk available for hot-relocation use, use the following
command:
# vxedit -g disk_group set nohotuse=off disk_name
Alternatively, from the vxdiskadm main menu, use the following
procedure:
Step 1. Select menu item 16 (Make a disk available for
hot-relocation use) from the vxdiskadm main menu.
Step 2. At the following prompt, enter the disk name (such as disk01):
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/UnmarkSpareDisk
Use this operation to amke a disk available for
hot-relocation
use. This only applies to disks that were previously
excluded
from hot-relocation use. 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:
Excluding disk01 in rootdg from hot-relocation use is
complete.