Enabling multipathing and making devices visible to VxVM

Use this procedure to re-enable multipathing for a device, or to make a device visible to VxVM again.

To enable multipathing and make devices visible to VxVM

  1. Run the vxdiskadm command, and select Allow multipathing/Unsuppress devices from VxVM's view from the main menu. You are prompted to confirm whether you want to continue.

  2. Select the operation you want to perform from the following options:

    Option 1

    Unsuppresses all paths through the specified controller from the view of VxVM.

    Option 2

    Unsuppresses specified paths from the view of VxVM.

    Option 3

    Unsuppresses disks from the view of VxVM that match a specified Vendor ID and Product ID combination.

    Option 4

    Removes 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.

    Option 5

    Allows multipathing of all disks that have paths through the specified controller.

    Option 6

    Allows multipathing of a disk by VxVM.

    Option 7

    Allows multipathing of disks that match a specified Vendor ID and Product ID combination.

    Option 8

    Lists the devices that are currently suppressed or not multipathed.