VERITAS Volume Manager 3.2 for HP-UX Release Notes

Initializing the VERITAS Volume Manager for HP-UX

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• ?? displays general information about using the vxinstall program

• q exits from the current operation, or from the vxinstall program.

Step 8. Select either 1 for Quick Installation or 2 for Custom Installation.

• Quick Installation uses default options and brings every disk on your system

under VxVM control, except for disks under LVM control (including your

root/boot disk) and disks listed in the files /etc/vx/disks.exclude and

/etc/vx/cntrls.exclude. If you choose Quick Installation, go to Step 9.

• Custom Installation allows you to control whether and how each disk will be

brought under VxVM control. If you choose Custom Installation, go to Step 10.

Step 9. This step shows you how to use vxinstall Quick Installation.

The Quick Installation option is the easiest to use. For each controller, Quick

Installation gives you the option of initializing all disks. If you want only to

initialize some disks on a given controller, use Custom Installation (Step 10)

instead.

Quick Installation allows you to initialize disks in a disk array, even if valid data

exist on those disks. Avoid selection the initialize option for any disks that contain

valid data.

Quick Installation will bring every disk attached to your system under VERITAS

Volume Manager control, unless you have chosen to exclude those disks. Disks

could be chosen for exclusion either through, or by using the interface for

suppressing devices as described earlier. If you have any disks on your system that

you do not want placed under VxVM control, either exclude them using the

disks.exclude or cntrls.exclude or enclr.exclude files, the option Prevent

multipathing/Suppress devices from VxVM’s view in vxinstall, or the

Custom Installation option (which allows you to leave certain disks alone).

NOTE vxinstall shows default responses in parentheses; to choose the default, press

<Return>. You can quit the initialization at any time by typing q at

any of the vxinstall prompts. Disks are initialized at the end of the

vxinstall procedure. If you quit vxinstall before it initializes the

disks, all disks are left as they were before vxinstall was started.