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

Disk Tasks
Activating Dynamic Disk Groups
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When you have provided all necessary information in the dialog box,
click OK.
NOTE
• The Disk Groups Activation task requires a dynamic disk group
name.
Activation Mode: Select one of the following dynamic disk group
activation modes:
• To disallow read and write access for
volumes in the dynamic disk group, select
Off.
• To allow read and write access for volumes
in the dynamic disk group, select Read
Write.
• To allow read only access for volumes in the
dynamic disk group, select Read Only.
If your system supports a cluster environment,
you can select one of the following additional
options for shared dynamic disk groups:
• To give the current node exclusive write
access for volumes in the shared dynamic
disk group, select Exclusive Write. No
other nodes in the cluster can have write
access to the dynamic disk group.
• To give the current node write access for
volumes in the shared dynamic disk group,
select Shared Write. Other nodes in the
cluster can share write access to this
dynamic disk group.
• To give the current node read access for
volumes in the shared dynamic disk group,
select Shared Read. The current node
cannot have write access to the dynamic
disk group, but other nodes in the cluster
may have write access.