You can use the vxdg command to create a new disk group. A disk group must contain at least one disk at the time it is created. You also have the option to create a shared disk group for use in a cluster environment.
Disks must be placed in disk groups before they can be used by VxVM. You can create disk groups to organize your disks into logical sets of disks.
Before creating a disk group, review the following:
The following is an example of creating a disk group using the vxdg command:
To create a disk group named PRODdg on a raw disk partition Disk_0, where the disk name PRODdg01 references the disk within the disk group:
# /opt/VRTS/bin/vxdg init PRODdg PRODdg01=Disk_0