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

Reorganizing the Contents of Disk Groups
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◆ To isolate volumes or disks from a disk group, and process them independently on the
same host or on a different host. This allows you to implement off-host processing
solutions for the purposes of backup or decision support. This is discussed further in
“Configuring Off-Host Processing” on page 315.
You can use either the VERITAS Enterprise Administrator (VEA) or the vxdg command to
reorganize your disk groups. For more information about using the graphical user
interface, see the VERITAS Enterprise Administrator Getting Started manual and VEA online
help. This section describes how to use the vxdg command.
The vxdg command provides the following operations for reorganizing disk groups:
◆ move—moves a self-contained set of VxVM objects between imported disk groups.
This operation fails if it would remove all the disks from the source disk group.
Volume states are preserved across the move. The move operation is illustrated in
“Disk Group Move Operation” on page 156.
Disk Group Move Operation
Source Disk Group Target Disk Group
move
Source Disk Group Target Disk Group
After
move