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.
Deportation fails if the disk group contains volumes that are in use (for example, by mounted file systems or databases).
8 (Remove access to (deport) a disk group)
from the vxdiskadm
main menu.
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
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
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.
y
if you intend to remove the disks in this disk group:
VxVM INFO V-5-2-377 The requested operation is to disable
access to the removable disk group named newdg. This disk
group is stored on the following disks:
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 the system.
Once the disk group is deported, the vxdiskadm
utility displays the following message:
VxVM INFO V-5-2-269 Removal of disk group newdg was
y
) or return to the vxdiskadm
main menu (n
):
Disable another disk group? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)
Alternatively, you can use the vxdg
command to deport a disk group: