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Using vxdiskadd to place a disk under control of VxVM

As an alternative to vxdiskadm, you can use the vxdiskadd command to put a disk under VxVM control. For example, to initialize the second disk on the first controller, use the following command:

# vxdiskadd c0t1d0

The vxdiskadd command examines your disk to determine whether it has been initialized and also checks for disks that can be encapsulated (see Using nopriv disks for encapsulation), disks that have been added to VxVM, and for other conditions.

  Note   If you are adding an uninitialized disk, warning and error messages are displayed on the console during the vxdiskadd command. Ignore these messages. These messages should not appear after the disk has been fully initialized; the vxdiskadd command displays a success message when the initialization completes.

The interactive dialog for adding a disk using vxdiskadd is similar to that for vxdiskadm, described in Adding a disk to VxVM.