Importing the cloned disks as a new standard disk group


Importing the cloned disks as a new standard disk group
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If the standard (non-clone) disks in a disk group are already imported, you cannot simultaneously import the cloned disks in the same disk group. VxVM does not support a disk group with both clone and non-clone disks. If you want to import the cloned disks, you must specify a new disk group name for the disk group containing the cloned disks.

Be sure to import a consistent set of cloned disks, which represent a single point of time copy of the original disks. Each of the disks must have either the udid_mismatch flag or the clone_disk flag or both. No two of the disks should have the same stored UDID. That is, there must not be two copies of the same original disk.

You must use tags if multiple copies of one or more cloned disks exist.

After the import operation, the udid_mismatch flag and the clone_disk flag are cleared from the disks in the new disk group. The new disk group becomes a standard disk group, and the disks become standard disks.

To import the cloned disks as a new disk group

Make sure that at least one of the cloned disks has a copy of the current configuration database in its private region.
Import only the cloned disks by specifying the -o useclonedev=on option to the vxdg import command, as shown in this example:
```
# vxdg -n clonedg -o useclonedev=on -o tag=my_tagged_disks \
  import mydg
```
This form of the command allows only cloned disks to be imported.

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