VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Installation Guide (August 2002)

Using vxinstall
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No changes are made to the disks and they are not placed under VxVM control. If
applications are currently using these disks and you do not want to upgrade these
applications to use VxVM, use thisoption toensurethat yourapplications continueto
use the disks without modification.
5. Repeat step 4 on page 44 for each of the remaining disk arrays on your system.
When you have completed the vxinstall procedure for all disk arrays on your
system, the vxinstall program displays a summary of the disks you have
designated for initialization (New Disk) on each controller.
If youenter y, thevxinstall program proceedsto initialize (destroying anyexisting
data) all disks listed with New Disk.
If you enter n, the vxinstall program prompts you for the name of a disk to be
removed from the list and excluded from VxVM control, as follows:
Enter disk to be removed from your choices. Hit return when
done.
[<name>,q,?]
6. Enter the name of the disk to be removed from the list and press Return. Repeat for
each disk to be removed and then press Return once more. The vxinstall program
displays an updated summary without the disks chosen for removal. If you are
satisfied with the summary, enter y.
7. Dependingon yourinputduring the vxinstall procedure,you may berequestedto
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 shutdownis not required,the vxinstall program indicates successfulcompletion of
the installation
Installation is complete.
Preventing Multipathing/Suppressing Devices from VxVM’s View
This section describes how to exclude a device which is under VxVM or Dynamic
Multipathing control. Follow these steps to disable multipathing.
1. Select menu item 3 (Prevent Multipathing/Suppress devices from
VxVM’s view) from the vxinstall main menu.
The following message displays: