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

Disk Tasks

Deporting Dynamic Disk Groups

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Deporting Dynamic Disk Groups

The Deport Dynamic Disk Group procedure makes a dynamic disk

group and its volumes inaccessible. Once deported, a dynamic disk group

cannot be used until it is imported. You can deport a dynamic disk group

to make the dynamic disk group temporarily unavailable.

While a dynamic disk group is deported, you cannot remove and reuse

any of its disks. To remove disks, you must import the dynamic disk

group and then either destroy the dynamic disk group (to remove all of

its disks) or remove selected disks from the dynamic disk group.

To deport a dynamic disk group

Step 1. Select the dynamic disk group to be deported.

Step 2. Choose Actions > Deport Dynamic Disk Group.

Step 3. Click OK to complete the deportation.

NOTE

• The Deport Dynamic Disk Group task requires a dynamic disk

group name.

• A deported dynamic disk group cannot be accessed. To access a

deported dynamic disk group, the dynamic disk group must be

imported.

• The rootdg disk group cannot be deported.

• A dynamic disk group cannot be deported if any volumes in that

dynamic disk group are in use (open).

• When a dynamic disk group is deported, the host ID stored on all

disks in the dynamic disk group is cleared and the dynamic disk

group is not re-imported automatically when the system is rebooted.

However, if you specify a host in New Host option, the speciﬁed host

imports the dynamic disk group at reboot.