VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Storage Administrator Administrator's Guide

Disk Tasks
Introduction
Chapter 3100
Introduction
This chapter describes how to set up and use disks and disk groups with
the Volume Manager Storage Administrator. The Disk Task Roadmap at
the beginning of this chapter contains a summary of common disk and
disk group tasks.
The following disk tasks are discussed in this chapter:
• “Adding a Disk to the Volume Manager”
• “Scanning Disks”
• “Designating a Disk as a Hot-Relocation Spare”
• “Reserving a Disk”
• “Renaming a Disk”
• “Offlining a Disk”
• “Onlining a Disk”
• “Mirroring a Disk”
• “Evacuating a Disk”
• “Disconnecting a Disk”
• “Replacing a Disk”
• “Unrelocating a Disk”
• “Recovering Volumes on a Disk”
• “Removing a Disk”
• “Forcing Initialization of a Disk”
• “Viewing Disk Properties”
• “Disabling a Controller”
• “Enabling a Controller”
• “Renaming an Enclosure”
The following disk group tasks are discussed in this chapter:
• “Creating a Disk Group”