VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Storage Administrator Administrator's Guide

Disk Tasks
Deporting a Disk Group
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Deporting a Disk Group
This procedure makes a disk group and its volumes inaccessible. Once
deported, a disk group cannot be used until it is imported. You can deport
a disk group to make the disk group temporarily unavailable.
While a disk group is deported, you cannot remove and reuse any of its
disks. To remove disks, you must import the disk group and then either
destroy the disk group (to remove all of its disks) or remove selected
disks from the disk group.
To deport a disk group
Step 1. Select the disk group to be deported.
Step 2. Choose Disk Groups > Deport (Selected menu) or Disk Group Deport
(Command Launcher).
Step 3. Complete the Deport Disk Group dialog box as follows:
When you have provided all necessary information in the dialog box,
Disk Group Name: If the correct disk group name is not already
displayed in this field, type the disk group’s name or
click Browse to select the disk group.
Options Click Show Options to access the optional settings
for this task.
• To change the name of the disk group at deport,
type a new disk group name in the New Name
field.
• To set up a host machine to import the deported
disk group at reboot, type the host ID in the New
Host field.