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Discovering the association between enclosure-based disk names and OS-based disk names

If you enable enclosure-based naming, and use the vxprint command to display the structure of a volume, it shows enclosure-based disk device names (disk access names) rather than c#t#d#s# names. To discover the c#t#d#s# names that are associated with a given enclosure-based disk name, use either of the following commands:

# vxdisk -e list enclosure-based_name

# vxdmpadm getsubpaths dmpnodename=enclosure-based_name

For example, to find the physical device that is associated with disk ENC0_21, the appropriate commands would be:

# vxdisk -e list ENC0_21

# vxdmpadm getsubpaths dmpnodename=ENC0_21

To obtain the full pathname for the block and character disk device from these commands, append the displayed device name to /dev/vx/dmp or /dev/vx/rdmp.