VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Storage Administrator Administrator's Guide

Disk Tasks
Adding a Disk to the Volume Manager
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click OK.
Notes:
• This task requires a disk device name and the location for the new
disk (that is, a disk group or the free space pool).
• This task sets up disks for Volume Manager use. Disks must be under
Volume Manager control and in a disk group before they can be used
to create volumes.
• Disks in the free disk pool need to be added to a disk group before
they can be used to create volumes.
• Disks must be online before they can be added to a disk group or the
free disk pool.
• Disks that already belong to a disk group cannot be added to another
disk group or placed in the free disk pool.
• Disks cannot be added to deported disk groups.
• The Volume Manager disk name must be unique within the disk
group.
• If multiple disks are specified in the Disk Device(s) field and only one
disk name is specified in Disk Name(s) field, the Volume Manager
appends numbers to the disk name so that each disk name is unique
within its disk group.