VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide

Administering Dynamic Multipathing (DMP)

Disabling and Enabling Multipathing for Speciﬁc Devices

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q Exit from menus

Select an operation to perform:

• Select option 1 to exclude all paths through the speciﬁed controller from the

view of VxVM. These paths remain in the disabled state until the next reboot,

or until the paths are re-included.

Exclude controllers from VxVM

Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/ExcludeDevices/CTLR-VXVM

VxVM INFO V-5-2-1247 Use this operation to exclude all paths throug

h a controller from VxVM.

VxVM INFO V-5-2-1263 This operation can be reversed using the vxdis

kadm command.

You can specify a controller name at the prompt. A controller name

is of the form c#, example c3, c11 etc. Enter ’all’ to exclude all

paths on all the controllers on the host. To see the list of contro

llers on the system, type ’list’.

Enter a controller name:[ctlr_name,all,list,list-exclude,q,?]

• Select option 2 to exclude speciﬁed paths from the view of VxVM.

Exclude paths from VxVM

Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/ExcludeDevices/PATH-VXVM

VxVM INFO V-5-2-1250 Use this operation to exclude one or more path

s from VxVM.

As a result of this operation, the specified paths will be excluded

from the view of VxVM. This operation can be reversed using the vx

diskadm command.

VxVM INFO V-5-2-1266 You can specify a pathname or a pattern at the

prompt. Here are some path selection examples:

all: all paths

c3t4d2: a single path

list: list all paths on the system

Enter a pathname or pattern:[<Pattern>,all,list,list-exclude,q?]

• Select option 3 to exclude disks from the view of VxVM that match a speciﬁed

Vendor ID and Product ID.