Making devices visible to VxVM
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Making devices visible to VxVM

Use this procedure to make a device visible to Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) again. The options to allow multi-pathing by the Dynamic Multi-Pathing (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

    Unsuppresses all paths to a disk.

    Option 5

    Deprecated

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

    This operation is deprecated.

    Option 6

    Deprecated

    Allows multi-pathing of a disk by VxVM.

    This operation is deprecated.

    Option 7

    Deprecated

    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.
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