Veritas has a generic VDID for the arrays that are not supported by the VDID library. For such arrays, the generic VDID string helps identify and categorize disks belonging to various arrays using the Unique Disk ID. In the VEA GUI, all the disks for these arrays are gathered under a common Enclouse named as Disks@<HostName>.

Similar to the VDID string, information about the generic VDID string can be viewed by using the VEA GUI (displayed as part of information for disks) and the vxdisk diskinfo and vxdisk list CLI commands. The format of the generic VDID string for disks belonging to various arrays is as follows:

<VendorID>_<ProductID>_DISKS_<LUNSerialNumber>