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

Disk Tasks
Replacing Disk
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Replacing Disk
Disks most often need replacing when they fail or start to behave
strangely. A failed or removed dynamic disk can be replaced, and active
redundant volumes (mirrored and RAID-5) on the replaced disk will be
resynchronized automatically after disk replacement.
Failed volumes on the replaced disk, however, will stay failed after disk
replacement because no valid data is available for copy. These underlying
steps are handled automatically when the disk replacement is performed
using VxVM VEA.
CAUTION This operation alters the partitioning of a disk.
The disk replacement procedure can only be performed on a disk that
has failed. VxVM VEA indicates a failed disk by renaming it “Missing
Disk”. If the disk replacement is successful, the replacement disk will
take on the attributes of the failed disk, including the Disk Name.
NOTE This option is only available on Missing Disks.