By default, the agent checks the state of the disk devices underneath the volume group. If the disk device is in a defined state, the agent resets it to an available state. You can use the VaryonvgOpt attribute to change this default behavior.

You can tell the agent not to check for the state of the disk devices. Set the VaryonvgOpt attribute in the main.cf file to a value of "u". This option to the varyonvg command ensures that the disks underneath the volume group are not reserved when the volume group is activated.