Reorganizing the contents of disk groups

There are several circumstances under which you might want to reorganize the contents of your existing disk groups:

Use the vxdg command to reorganize your disk groups.

The vxdg command provides the following operations for reorganizing disk groups:

Figure: Disk group move operation

Disk group move operation

Figure: Disk group split operation shows the split operation.

Figure: Disk group split operation

Disk group split operation

Figure: Disk group join operation

Disk group join operation

These operations are performed on VxVM objects such as disks or top-level volumes, and include all component objects such as sub-volumes, plexes and subdisks. The objects to be moved must be self-contained, meaning that the disks that are moved must not contain any other objects that are not intended for the move.

If you specify one or more disks to be moved, all VxVM objects on the disks are moved. You can use the -o expand option to ensure that vxdg moves all disks on which the specified objects are configured. Take care when doing this as the result may not always be what you expect. You can use the listmove operation with vxdg to help you establish what is the self-contained set of objects that corresponds to a specified set of objects.

Warning:

Before moving volumes between disk groups, stop all applications that are accessing the volumes, and unmount all file systems that are configured on these volumes.

If the system crashes or a hardware subsystem fails, VxVM attempts to complete or reverse an incomplete disk group reconfiguration when the system is restarted or the hardware subsystem is repaired, depending on how far the reconfiguration had progressed. If one of the disk groups is no longer available because it has been imported by another host or because it no longer exists, you must recover the disk group manually.

See the Veritas Volume Manager Troubleshooting Guide.

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