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

Disk Tasks
Destroying a Dynamic Disk Group
Chapter 386
Destroying a Dynamic Disk Group
CAUTION Destroying a dynamic disk group can result in data loss.
The Destroy Dynamic Disk Group procedure permanently removes a
dynamic disk group from VxVM control. This procedure also reinitializes
all of the disks in the dynamic disk group as empty disks and places
them in the free disk pool for reuse.
Destroy a dynamic disk group only if you are sure that you no longer
need the volumes and data in the dynamic disk group. Since the last disk
in a dynamic disk group cannot be removed, destroying a dynamic disk
group is useful for freeing the last disk in a dynamic disk group for reuse.
To destroy a dynamic disk group
Step 1. Right-click on the appropriate host machine node.
Step 2. Choose Destroy Dynamic Disk Group.
Step 3. Complete the Destroy Dynamic Disk Group dialog box as follows:
When you have provided all necessary information in the dialog box,
click OK.
NOTE
• Use the Destroy Dynamic Disk Group task with caution.
Destroying a dynamic disk group permanently removes the dynamic
disk group from VxVM control and can result in data loss.
• When a dynamic disk group is destroyed, its disks are returned to
the free disk pool. Any volumes in the dynamic disk group are
removed.
• The rootdg disk group cannot be destroyed.
Disk Group Name: Enter the name of the dynamic disk group to be
destroyed.