VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide

Administering Disks

Removing and Replacing Disks

Chapter 2100

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 to replace a failed or removed disk with a new disk:

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

main menu.

Step 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

diskthat you removed with the “Remove a disk for replacement” menuoperation, 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 diskwill be initialized,

or you can choose a disk that you havealready initialized using the Add or

initialize a disk menuoperation.

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

Step 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)

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

appropriate step from the following:

• If the disk has not previously been initialized, press Return at the following

prompt to replace the disk:

VxVM INFO V-5-2-378 The requested operation is to initialize disk