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

Disk Tasks

Splitting A Dynamic Disk Group

Chapter 392

NOTE

• Before carrying out the split operation, stop all applications that are

accessing the volumes, and unmount all ﬁle systems that are

conﬁgured in the volumes.

• The objects to be split off must be self-contained, meaning that the

disks that are split must not contain any other objects that are not

intended for the move.

• This operation fails if it would remove all the disks from the source

dynamic disk group.

• Volume states are preserved across the split.

• An existing deported dynamic disk group is destroyed if it has the

same name as the target dynamic disk group.

• The reconﬁguration must involve an integral number of physical

disks.

• Objects to be split off must not contain open volumes.