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

Chapter 3, Disk Tasks

Moving Objects Between Dynamic Disk Groups

The following procedure moves a self-contained set of VxVM VEA objects between

imported dynamic disk groups. This operation is performed on VxVM VEA objects such

as disks or top-level volumes, and includes all component objects such as sub-volumes,

plexes and subdisks.

▼ To perform a dynamic disk group move operation:

1. Right-click on the dynamic disk group to be moved.

2. Select Move Dynamic Disk Groups.

3. Complete the Move Dynamic Disk Group Dialog Box as follows:

Disk Group Name: Enter the name of the dynamic disk group from which objects are

to be moved or click

Browse to select the dynamic disk group.

Target Disk Group

Name:

Enter thename of thedynamic disk group into whichobjects areto

be moved.

Select Objects to move: Enter the objects to be moved.

◆ To select volumes to move, click Move dynamic disk group

by volumes. Toselectallofthelisted volumes,clickAdd All.

◆ To selectdisksto move,click Move dynamic disk group by

disks.

◆ Click on OK.

Expand: Click Expand to specify that the objects to be moved should

include all other disks that contain subdisks that are associated

with the speciﬁed objects or with objects that they contain. For

example, if you specify that disk01 should be moved and disk01

contains vol1 which is also located on disk02, then by using the

Expand button, you ensure that disk02 will also be moved.

Show Dependencies:

Click Show Dependencies to display the objects affected

by the move.