VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide

Administering Hot-Relocation

Moving and Unrelocating Subdisks

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CAUTION During subdisk move operations, RAID-5 volumes are not redundant.

Moving and Unrelocating Subdisks using vxdiskadm

To move the hot-relocated subdisks back to the disk where they

originally resided after the disk has been replaced following a failure, use

the following procedure:

Step 1. Select menu item 14 (Unrelocate subdisks back to a disk) from the

vxdiskadm main menu.

Step 2. This option prompts for the original disk media name ﬁrst.

Enter the disk media name where the hot-relocated subdisks originally

resided at the following prompt:

Enter the original disk name [<disk>,list,q,?]

If there are no hot-relocated subdisks in the system, vxdiskadm displays

Currently there are no hot-relocated disks, and asks you to press

Return to continue.

Step 3. You are next asked if you want to move the subdisks to a destination disk

other than the original disk.

While unrelocating the subdisks, you can choose to move the

subdisks to a different disk from the original disk.

Unrelocate to a new disk [y,n,q,?] (default: n)

Step 4. If moving subdisks to their original offsets is not possible, you can choose

to unrelocate the subdisks forcibly to the speciﬁed disk, but not

necessarily to the same offsets.

Use -f option to unrelocate the subdisks if moving to the exact

offset fails? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)

Step 5. If you entered y at step 4 to unrelocate the subdisks forcibly, enter y or

press Return at the following prompt to conﬁrm the operation: