VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Administrator's Guide

Disk Group Tasks
Importing a Disk Group
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Importing a Disk Group
Use this menu task to enable access by this system to a disk group. To
move a disk group from one system to another, first disable (deport) the
disk group on the original system, and then move the disk between
systems and enable (import) the disk group.
To import a disk group, use the following procedure:
Step 1. Select menu item 7 (Enable access to (import) a disk group)
from the vxdiskadm main menu.
Step 2. At the following prompt, enter the name of the disk group to import (in
this example, newdg):
Enable access to (import) a disk group
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/EnableDiskGroup
Use this operation to enable access to a disk group. This
can be
used as the final part of moving a disk group from one
system to
another. The first part of moving a disk group is to use
the
“Remove access to (deport) a disk group” operation on
the
original host.
A disk group can be imported from another host that
failed
without first deporting the disk group. Be sure that all
disks
in the disk group are moved between hosts.
If two hosts share a SCSI bus, be very careful to ensure
that
the other host really has failed or has deported the
disk group.
If two active hosts import a disk group at the same
time, the
disk group will be corrupted and will become unusable.
Select disk group to import [<group>,list,q,?] (default:
list)
newdg