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

Chapter 3, Administering Dynamic Multipathing (DMP)
Disabling and Enabling Multipathing for Specific Devices
109
2 Unsuppress a path from VxVM’s view
3 Unsuppress disks from VxVM’s view by specifying a VID:PID
combination
4 Remove a pathgroup definition
5 Allow multipathing of all disks on a controller by VxVM
6 Allow multipathing of a disk by VxVM
7 Allow multipathing of disks by specifying a VID:PID combination
8 List currently suppressed/non-multipathed devices
? Display help about menu
?? Display help about the menuing system
q Exit from menus
❖ Select option 1 to make all paths through a specified controller visible to VxVM.
❖ Select option 2 to make specified paths visible to VxVM.
❖ Select option 3 to make disks visible to VxVM that match a specified Vendor ID and
Product ID.
❖ Select option 4 to remove a pathgroup definition. (A pathgroup explicitly defines
alternate paths to the same disk.) Once a pathgroup has been removed, all paths that
were defined in that pathgroup become visible again.
❖ Select option 5 to enable multipathing for all disks that have paths through the
specified controller.
❖ Select option 6 to enable multipathing for specified paths.
❖ Select option 7 to enable multipathing for disks that match a specified Vendor ID and
Product ID.
❖ Select option 8 to list the devices that are currently suppressed or not multipathed.