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Formatted disks being placed under VxVM control may be new or previously used outside VxVM. The set of disks can consist of all disks on the system, all disks on a controller, selected disks, or a combination of these.
Depending on the circumstances, all of the disks may not be processed in the same way. For example, some may be initialized, while others may be encapsulated.
Caution
Initialization does not preserve data on disks.
When initializing or encapsulating multiple disks at one time, it is possible to exclude certain disks or certain controllers. To exclude disks, list the names of the disks to be excluded in the file /etc/vx/disks.exclude before the initialization or encapsulation. You can exclude all disks on specific controllers from initialization or encapsulation by listing those controllers in the file /etc/vx/cntrls.exclude.
To initialize disks for VxVM use
1 (Add or initialize one or more disks) from the vxdiskadm main menu.
list for a list of disks):
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/AddDisks
Use this operation to add one or more disks to a disk group.
You can add the selected disks to an existing disk group or to
a new disk group that will be created as a part of the
operation. The selected disks may also be added to a disk group
as spares. The selected disks may also be
initialized without adding them to a disk group leaving the
disks available for use as replacement disks.
c3 c4t2: all disks on both controller 3 and controller
c3t4d2: a single disk (in the c#t#d# naming scheme)
xyz_0 : a single disk (in the enclosure based naming
xyz_ : all disks on the enclosure whose name is xyz
<pattern-list> can be a single disk, or a series of disks and/or controllers (with optional targets). If <pattern-list> consists of multiple items, separate them using white space, for example:
specifies fours disks at separate target IDs on controller 3.
If you enter list at the prompt, the vxdiskadm program displays a list of the disks available to the system:
The phrase online invalid in the STATUS line indicates that a disk has yet to be added or initialized for VxVM control. Disks that are listed as online with a disk name and disk group are already under VxVM control.
Enter the device name or pattern of the disks that you want to initialize at the prompt and press Return.
y (or press Return) at the following prompt:
none to reserve the disks for future use:
You can choose to add these disks to an existing disk group, a
new disk group, or you can leave these disks available for use
by future add or replacement operations. To create a new disk
group, select a disk group name that does not yet exist. To
leave the disks available for future use, specify a disk group
vxdiskadm prompts for confirmation that you really want to create this new disk group:
There is no active disk group named disk group name.
Create a new group named disk group name? [y,n,q,?]
You are then prompted to confirm whether the disk group should support the Cross-platform Data Sharing (CDS) feature:
Create the disk group as a CDS disk group? [y,n,q,?]
If the new disk group may be moved between different operating system platforms, enter y. Otherwise, enter n.
n to allow you to define your own disk names:
Use default disk names for the disks? [y,n,q,?] (default: y)
n (or press Return):
n (or press Return).
Exclude disks from hot-relocation use? [y,n,q,?}
(default: n) n
Add site tag to disks? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)
A site tag is usually applied to disk arrays or enclosures, and is not required unless you want to use the Remote Mirror feature. If you enter y to choose to add a site tag, you are prompted to the site name at step 11.
y (or press Return) at the following prompt:
The selected disks will be added to the disk group
Enter site tag for disks on enclosure enclosure_name
[<name>,q,?] site_name
y to indicate that all of these disks should now be used:
The following disk devices appear to have been initialized
The disks are currently available as replacement disks.
Use these devices? [Y,N,S(elect),q,?] (default: Y) Y
Note that this prompt allows you to indicate "yes" or "no" for all of these disks (Y or N) or to select how to process each of these disks on an individual basis (S).
If you are sure that you want to re-initialize all of these disks, enter Y at the following prompt:
VxVM NOTICE V-5-2-366 The following disks you selected for use
appear to already have been initialized for the Volume
Manager. If you are certain the disks already have been
initialized for the Volume Manager, then you do not need to
reinitialize these disk devices.
vxdiskadm may now indicate that one or more disks is a candidate for encapsulation. Encapsulation allows you to add an active disk to VxVM control and preserve the data on that disk. If you want to preserve the data on the disk, enter y. If you are sure that there is no data on the disk that you want to preserve, enter n to avoid encapsulation.
VxVM NOTICE V-5-2-355 The following disk device has a valid
VTOC, but does not appear to have been initialized for the
Volume Manager. If there is data on the disk that should NOT be
destroyed you should encapsulate the existing disk partitions
vxdiskadm confirms its device name and prompts you for permission to proceed. Enter y (or press Return) to continue encapsulation:
VxVM NOTICE V-5-2-311 The following disk device has been
selected for encapsulation.
Continue with encapsulation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y) y
vxdiskadm now displays an encapsulation status, and informs you that you must perform a shutdown and reboot as soon as possible:
The disk device device name will be encapsulated and added
to the disk group dgname with the disk name disk name.
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 sliced disk:
Enter the desired format [cdsdisk,sliced,q,?]
Enter the format that is appropriate for your needs. In most cases, this is the default format, cdsdisk.
At the following prompt, vxdiskadm asks if you want to use the default private region size of 65536 blocks (32MB). 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: 65536)
If you entered cdsdisk as the format, you are prompted for the action to be taken if the disk cannot be converted this format:
Do you want to use 'sliced' as the format should 'cdsdisk'
If you enter y, and it is not possible to encapsulate the disk as a CDS disk, it is encapsulated as a sliced disk. Otherwise, the encapsulation fails.
vxdiskadm then proceeds to encapsulate the disks.
VxVM INFO V-5-2-340 The first stage of encapsulation has
completed successfully. You should now reboot your system at
the earliest possible opportunity.
The encapsulation will require two or three reboots which will
happen automatically after the next reboot. To reboot execute
the command:
This will update the /etc/vfstab file so that volume devices
are used to mount the file systems on this disk device. You
will need to update any other references such as backup
scripts, databases, or manually created swap devices.
vxdiskadm asks if you want to initialize the disk instead of encapsulating it. Enter y to confirm this:
Instead of encapsulating, initialize? [y,n,q,?] (default: n) y
vxdiskadm now confirms those disks that are being initialized and added to VxVM control with messages similar to the following. In addition, you may be prompted to perform surface analysis.
VxVM INFO V-5-2-205 Initializing device device name.
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 sliced or simple disk:
Enter the desired format [cdsdisk,sliced,simple,q,?]
(default: cdsdisk)
Enter the format that is appropriate for your needs. In most cases, this is the default format, cdsdisk.
At the following prompt, vxdiskadm asks if you want to use the default private region size of 65536 blocks (32MB). 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: 65536)
vxdiskadm then proceeds to add the disks.
VxVM INFO V-5-2-88 Adding disk device device name to disk group
disk group name with disk name disk name.
y) or return to the vxdiskadm main menu (n):
See Displaying and changing default disk layout attributes for details of how to change the default layout that is used to initialize or encapsulate disks.