VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 User's Guide - VERITAS Enterprise Administrator (June 2002)

Chapter 3, Disk Tasks

Deporting Dynamic Disk Groups

The Deport Dynamic Disk Group procedure makes a dynamic disk group and its

volumes inaccessible. Once deported, a dynamic disk group cannot be used until it is

imported. You can deport a dynamic disk group to make the dynamic disk group

temporarily unavailable.

While a dynamic disk groupis deported,you cannotremoveand reuse any of its disks. To

remove disks, you must import the dynamic disk group and then either destroy the

dynamic disk group (toremoveall of its disks)or remove selected disksfrom the dynamic

disk group.

▼ To deport a dynamic disk group

1. Select the dynamic disk group to be deported.

2. Choose Actions > Deport Dynamic Disk Group.

3. Click OK to complete the deportation.

Notes:

◆ The Deport Dynamic Disk Group task requires a dynamic disk group name.

◆ A deported dynamic disk group cannot be accessed. To access a deported dynamic disk

group, the dynamic disk group must be imported.

◆ The rootdg disk group cannot be deported.

◆ A dynamic diskgroup cannot be deported if any volumes in thatdynamic disk group are

in use (open).

◆ When a dynamic disk group is deported, the host ID stored on all disks in the dynamic

disk group is cleared and the dynamic disk group is not re-imported automatically when

the system is rebooted. However, if you specify a host in New Host option, the speciﬁed

host imports the dynamic disk group at reboot.