VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Administrator's Guide

Disk Group Tasks

Moving a Disk Group

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Moving a Disk Group

A disk group can be moved between systems, along with its Volume

Manager objects (except for rootdg). This relocates the disk group

conﬁguration to a new system.

To move a disk group across systems, use the following procedure:

Step 1. Unmount and stop all volumes in the disk group on the ﬁrst system.

Step 2. Deport (disable local access to) the disk group to be moved with the

following command:

# vxdg deport

diskgroup

Step 3. Import (enable local access to) the disk group and its disks from the

second system with the following command:

# vxdg import

diskgroup

Step 4. After the disk group is imported, start all volumes in the disk group with

the following command:

# vxrecover -g

diskgroup

-sb