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

Troubleshooting
Disk Troubleshooting
Chapter 7196
Disk State: Locked
The disk belongs to a dynamic disk group that is currently imported by
another machine or was last imported by another machine and was not
deported cleanly. The disk is not currently usable on the local machine.
• To make all of the disks in the dynamic disk group available for use
on the local machine, deport the disk group on the remote machine
and then import the dynamic disk group on the local machine.
• To make one disk available for use on the local machine, remove the
disk from its dynamic disk group (on the other machine) and add it to
a dynamic disk group on the local machine.
• If the dynamic disk group is not imported on another machine, it can
be necessary to re-import the dynamic disk group and clear the host
ID on all disks in the dynamic disk group. You can do this by
selecting the Clear Host ID option in the Import Disk Group dialog
box.
CAUTION If any of the disks in the dynamic disk group are in use by another
machine, this command can cause the disks to be managed by two
systems at the same time, which can lead to corruption.
Disk State: Inactive
The disk appears to belong to a dynamic disk group, but is not active in
the disk group. The disk may have become (temporarily) inaccessible.
Alternatively, the disk may have been inaccessible at dynamic disk group
import, but may be accessible now.
• Make sure that the physical disk is turned on, plugged in, and
attached to the computer. Repair any disk, controller, or cable
problems. Scan the disks on the system (Rescan) to make sure that
VxVM recognizes any newly attached hardware.
• It may be necessary to reattach the disk to its dynamic disk group
with the Replace Disk task.
After a successful reattach, volume recovery can be necessary.
• If the reattach fails and you want to free the disk space for use, you
can use the Initialize Disk task.