VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Administrator's Guide (September 2004)

Administering Disks

Removing and Replacing Disks

Chapter 296

At the following prompt, indicate whether you want to remove another

disk (y) or return to the vxdiskadm main menu (n):

Remove another disk? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)

NOTE If removing a disk causes one or more volumes to be disabled, see the

section, “Restarting a Disabled Volume” in the chapter “Recovery from

Hardware Failure” in the VERITAS Volume Manager Troubleshooting

Guide, for information on how to restart a disabled volume so that you

can restore its data from a backup.

If you wish to move hot-relocate subdisks back to a replacement disk, see

“Conﬁguring Hot-Relocation to Use Only Spare Disks” on page 328.

Replacing a Failed or Removed Disk

Use the following procedure to replace a failed or removed disk with a

new disk:

Step 1. Select menu item 4 (Replace a failed or removed disk) from the

vxdiskadm main menu.

Step 2. At the following prompt, enter the name of the disk to be replaced (or

enter list for a list of disks):

Replace a failed or removed disk

Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/ReplaceDisk

Use this menu operation to specify a replacement disk for a diskthat you removed

with the “Remove a disk for replacement” menuoperation, or that failed during

use. You will be prompted for a disk name to replace and a disk device to use as

a replacement.

You can choose an uninitialized disk, in which case the diskwill be initialized,

or you can choose a disk that you havealready initialized using the Add or

initialize a disk menuoperation.

Select a removed or failed disk [<disk>,list,q,?] disk02

Step 3. The vxdiskadm program displays the device names of the disk devices

available for use as replacement disks. Your system may use a device

name that differs from the examples. Enter the device name of the disk

or press Return to select the default device: