Associating a data volume with an RVG


Associating a data volume with an RVG
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The vxvol assoc command enables you to associate the specified data volume to the required RVG.

Volume Replicator does not support the following volumes for replication:

Storage Foundation (software) RAID 5 volumes
Volume with a Dirty Region Log (DRL)
Volume with a comma in the name

Using this command, you can add only one volume at one time.

Syntax for vxvol assoc command

vxvol -g <DynamicDiskGroupName> assoc <rvg>
<Volume:DriveLetter:VmName>

Example

vxvol -g vvrdg assoc rvg vol1

The following table describes the attributes that you can specify with vxvol command.

Table: Attributes for vxvol assoc command

Attributes	Description
VolumeName	Specifies the DeviceName of the volume. For example, \HarddiskDmVolumes\<diskgroup>\<volume name>
DriveLetter	The drive letter of the existing volume.
VmName	Specifies the internal name of the volume. You can obtain this by using the vxvol volinfo <volume> command.