VERITAS Volume Manager 3.2 for HP-UX Release Notes

Initializing the VERITAS Volume Manager for HP-UX

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Depending on your input during the vxinstall program, you may be requested to

shut down and reboot your machine. If this happens, shut down and reboot your

machine immediately or at the earliest convenient opportunity.

CAUTION Do not make any changes to your disk or file system configurations before

shutting down and rebooting your system.

If a shutdown is not required, successful completion of the installation is shown as

follows: installation is complete.

Continue with Step 11.

Step 10. This step shows you how to use vxinstall Custom Installation.

Custom installation allows you to control which disks are added to VxVM control

and how they are added. This is important if you do not want all your disks under

VxVM control. Custom Installation also gives you the option of initializing all disks

on a controller or initializing just some disks on a controller. The following session

example illustrates a Custom Installation.

Note the following disk initialization issues with Custom Installation:

• Custom Installation does not allow you to initialize disks on an controller if LVM

logical volumes are found on those disks. Avoid selecting the initialize option for

any disks containing valid data.

• Custom Installation allows you to initialize disks in a disk array, even if valid

data exists on those disks. Avoid selecting the initialize option for any disks that

contain valid data.

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.

Volume Manager Custom Installation

Menu: VolumeManager/Install/Custom/enc0

Disk array serial number : 60020f20000005bd0000

Generating list of disks in disk array enc0....