VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide

Administering Hot-Relocation
Making a Disk Available for Hot-Relocation Use
Chapter 9340
Making a Disk Available for Hot-Relocation
Use
Free space is used automatically by hot-relocation in case spare space is
not sufficient to relocate failed subdisks. You can limit this free space
usage by hot-relocation by specifying which free disks should not be
touched by hot-relocation. If a disk was previously excluded from
hot-relocation use, you can undo the exclusion and add the disk back to
the hot-relocation pool.
To make a disk available for hot-relocation use, use the following
command:
# vxedit -g disk_group set nohotuse=off diskname
Alternatively, using vxdiskadm:
Step 1. Select menu item 16 (Make a disk available for hot-relocation use) from
the vxdiskadm main menu.
Step 2. At the following prompt, enter the disk name (such as disk01):
Exclude a disk from hot-relocation use
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/UnmarkSpareDisk
Use this operation to exclude a disk from hot-relocation use.
This operation takes, as input, a disk name. This is the same
name that you gave to the disk when you added the disk to the
disk group.
Enter disk name [<disk>,list,q,?] disk01
The vxdiskadm program displays the following confirmation:
Making disk01 in rootdg available for hot-relocation use is
complete
Step 3. At the following prompt, indicate whether you want to add more disks to
be excluded from hot-relocation (y) or return to the vxdiskadm main
menu (n)