Veritas Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide (HP-UX 11i v3, February 2007)

Chapter 2, Administering Disks

Removing and Replacing Disks

Replacing a Failed or Removed Disk

Note You may need to run commands that are specific to the operating system or disk

array when replacing a physical disk.

Use the following procedure after you have replaced a failed or removed disk with a new

disk:

1. Select menu item 4 (Replace a failed or removed disk) from the

vxdiskadm main menu.

2. At the following prompt, enter the name of the disk to be replaced (or enter list for

a list of disks):

Replace a failed or removed disk

Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/ReplaceDisk

VxVM INFO V-5-2-479 Use this menu operation to specify a

replacement disk for a disk that you removed with the “Remove a

disk for replacement” menu operation, or that failed during use.

You will be prompted for a disk name to replace and a disk

device to use as a replacement.

You can choose an uninitialized disk, in which case the disk

will be initialized, or you can choose a disk that you have

already initialized using the Add or initialize a disk menu

operation.

Select a removed or failed disk [<disk>,list,q,?] mydg02

3. The vxdiskadm program displays the device names of the disk devices available for

use as replacement disks. Your system may use a device name that differs from the

examples. Enter the device name of the disk or press Return to select the default

device:

The following devices are available as replacements:

c0t1d0 c1t1d0

You can choose one of these disks to replace mydg02.

Choose "none" to initialize another disk to replace mydg02.

Choose a device, or select "none"

[<device>,none,q,?] (default: c0t1d0)

4. Depending on whether the replacement disk was previously initialized, perform the

appropriate step from the following: