Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Administrator's Guide (September 2006)

112 Administering disks
Removing and replacing disks
VxVM NOTICE V-5-2-260 Proceeding to replace mydg02 with device
c0t1d0.
6 You can now choose whether the disk is to be formatted as a CDS disk that is
portable between different operating systems, or as a non-portable hpdisk-format
disk:
Enter the desired format [cdsdisk,hpdisk,q,?]
(default: cdsdisk)
Enter the format that is appropriate for your needs. In most cases, this is the default
format, cdsdisk.
7 At the following prompt,
vxdiskadm asks if you want to use the default private
region size of 32768 blocks (32 MB). Press Return to confirm that you want to use
the default value, or enter a different value. (The maximum value that you can
specify is 524288 blocks.)
Enter desired private region length [<privlen>,q,?]
(default: 32768)
8 If one of more mirror plexes were moved from the disk, you are now prompted
whether FastResync should be used to resynchronize the plexes:
Use FMR for plex resync? [y,n,q,?] (default: n) y
vxdiskadm displays the following success message:
VxVM NOTICE V-5-2-158 Disk replacement completed successfully.
9 At the following prompt, indicate whether you want to remove another disk (y) or
return to the vxdiskadm main menu (n):
Remove another disk? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)
Note: If removing a disk causes one or more volumes to be disabled, see the section,
“Restarting a Disabled Volume” in the chapter “Recovery from Hardware Failure” in the
Veritas Volume Manager Troubleshooting Guide, for information on how to restart a
disabled volume so that you can restore its data from a backup.
If you wish to move hot-relocate subdisks back to a replacement disk, see “Configuring
hot-relocation to use only spare disks” on page 380.
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.
To specify a disk that has replaced a failed or removed disk
1 Select menu item 4 (Replace a failed or removed disk) from the
vxdiskadm main menu.