VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Administrator's Guide

Initialization and Setup
Volume Manager Initialization
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Volume Manager Initialization
You initialize the Volume Manager by using the vxinstall program.
The vxinstall program places specified disks under Volume Manager
control. By default, these disks are placed in the rootdg disk group. You
must use the vxinstall program to initialize at least one disk into
rootdg. You can then use the vxdiskadm interface or the Storage
Administrator to initialize additional disks into other disk groups.
Once you have completed the package installation, follow these steps to
initialize the Volume Manager.
NOTE Do not run vxinstall on HP-UX 11i Version 1.5 if you installed the
default operating system, because VxVM initialization is done
automatically when the default operating system is installed. If,
however, you chose the VxFS whole disk option when you installed the
operating system, then you will need to run vxinstall.
Step 1. Log in as superuser (or appropriate access level).
Step 2. Create a disks.exclude file if you want to exclude disks from Volume
Manager control. The vxinstall program ignores any disks listed in
this file. Place this file in /etc/vx/disks.exclude.
NOTE The files /etc/vx/cntrls.exclude and /etc/vx/disks.exclude are
used by the vxinstall and vxdiskadm utilities to automatically exclude
controllers or disks so that these devices are not configured as Volume
Manager devices. These files do not exclude controllers and disks from
use by any other Volume Manager commands. See the vxinstall(1M)
and vxdiskadm(1M) manual pages for more information.
Step 3. Create a cntrls.exclude file if you want to exclude all disks on a
controller from Volume Manager control. Place this file in
/etc/vx/cntrls.exclude.
Step 4. Start the vxinstall program by entering the following command: