Making devices visible to VxVM

Use this procedure to make a device visible to VxVM again. The options to allow multi-pathing by the VxVM DMP driver (vxdmp) are deprecated.

To 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.

    This operation is deprecated.

    Option 5

    Allows multi-pathing of all disks that have paths through the specified controller.

    This operation is deprecated.

    Option 6

    Allows multi-pathing of a disk by VxVM.

    This operation is deprecated.

    Option 7

    Allows multi-pathing of disks that match a specified Vendor ID and Product ID combination.

    This operation is deprecated.

    Option 8

    Lists the devices that are currently suppressed.