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

Disk Tasks
Adding a Disk to VxVM
Chapter 352
Adding a Disk to VxVM
New disks must be set up on the system, placed under VxVM control,
then added to a dynamic disk group before they can be used for volumes.
The Actions > Rescan task scans for new devices.
When you place a disk under VxVM control, the disk is either
encapsulated (if your system supports encapsulation) or initialized.
Encapsulation preserves any existing data on the disk in volumes.
Initialization destroys any existing data on the disk. (You can
encapsulate a disk to preserve the data.)
This task assigns a default VxVM disk name to the disk. Once the disk is
under VxVM control, you can use the Rename Disk task (“Renaming a
Disk” on page 57) to change the VxVM disk name (see “Renaming a
Disk” on page 57).