VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Installation Guide (August 2002)

Chapter 3, Setting up the VxVM Environment
Using vxinstall
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6. If you selected n in the previous step, the vxinstall program displays a brief
introduction to the installation process, as follows:
Hit RETURN to continue
7. Press Return to continue
The vxinstall program next displays a menu with the following options:
The options are defined as follows:
- 1 (Quick Installation) uses default options for installation
- 2 (Custom Installation) allows you to control whether and how each disk will be
brought under VERITAS Volume Manager control.
- 3 (Prevent multipathing/Suppress devices from VxVM’s view) excludes devices
from VxVM or prevents them from being multipathed by DMP.
- ? displays a help file describing the current operation or menu choices.
- ?? displays general information about using the vxinstall program
- q exits from the current operation, or from the vxinstall program.
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. See “Quick Installation” below for details.
- Custom Installation allows you to control whether and how each disk will be
brought under VxVM control. See “Custom Installation” on page 43 for details.
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 instead.
Quick Installation allows you to initialize disks in a disk array, even if valid data exist
on those disks. Avoid selecting the initialize option for any disks that contain valid
data.
Quick Installation brings 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. Ifyouhave any disks onyoursystem that you donotwant placed
under VxVM control, either exclude them using the /etc/vx/disks.exclude,