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Enabling multipathing and making devices visible to VxVM

  Note   Some of the operations described in this section require a reboot of the system.

1. Select menu item 18 (Allow multipathing/Unsuppress devices from VxVM's view) from the vxdiskadm main menu to re-enable multipathing for a device, or to make a device visible to VxVM again. You are prompted to confirm whether you want to continue.
2. Select the operation you want to perform from the displayed list:

   1 Unsuppress all paths through a controller from VxVM's view

   2 Unsuppress a path from VxVM's view

   3 Unsuppress disks from VxVM's view by specifying a VID:PID

   combination

   4 Remove a pathgroup definition

   5 Allow multipathing of all disks on a controller by VxVM

   6 Allow multipathing of a disk by VxVM

   7 Allow multipathing of disks by specifying a VID:PID

   combination

   8 List currently suppressed/non-multipathed devices

   ? Display help about menu

   ?? Display help about the menuing system

   q Exit from menus

3. Select option 1 to make all paths through a specified controller visible to VxVM.
4. Select option 2 to make specified paths visible to VxVM.
5. Select option 3 to make disks visible to VxVM that match a specified Vendor ID and Product ID.
6. Select option 4 to remove a pathgroup definition. (A pathgroup explicitly defines alternate paths to the same disk.) Once a pathgroup has been removed, all paths that were defined in that pathgroup become visible again.
7. Select option 5 to enable multipathing for all disks that have paths through the specified controller.
8. Select option 6 to enable multipathing for specified paths.
9. Select option 7 to enable multipathing for disks that match a specified Vendor ID and Product ID.
10. Select option 8 to list the devices that are currently suppressed or not multipathed.