VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide

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Deporting a Disk Group
Deporting a disk group disables access to a disk group that is currently
enabled (imported) by the system. Deport a disk group if you intend to
move the disks in a disk group to another system. Also, deport a disk
group if you want to use all of the disks remaining in a disk group for a
new purpose.
To deport a disk group, use the following procedure:
Step 1. Stop all activity by applications to volumes that are configured in the
disk group that is to be deported. Unmount file systems and shut down
databases that are configured on the volumes.
Step 2. Use the following command to stop the volumes in the disk group:
# vxvol -g diskgroup stopall
Step 3. Select menu item 8 (Remove access to (deport) a disk group) from the
vxdiskadm main menu.
Step 4. At the following prompt, enter the name of the disk group to be deported
(in this example, newdg):
Remove access to (deport) a disk group
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/DeportDiskGroup
Use this menu operation to remove access to a disk group that is currently
enabled (imported) by this system. Deport a disk group if you intend to move the
disks in a disk group to another system. Also, deport a disk group if you want to
use all of the disks remaining in a disk group for some new purpose.
You will be prompted for the name of a disk group. You will also be asked if the
disks should be disabled (offlined). For removable disk devices on some systems,
it is important to disable all access to the disk before removing the disk.
Enter name of disk group [<group>,list,q,?] (default: list) newdg
Step 5. At the following prompt, enter y if you intend to remove the disks in this
disk group:
The requested operation is to disable access to the removable disk group named
newdg. This disk group is stored on the following disks:
newdg01 on device c1t1d0
You can choose to disable access to (also known as “offline”)these disks. This
may be necessary to prevent errors if you actually remove any of the disks from