Creating A Disk Group - Hitachi XP P9500 User Manual

Creating a Disk Group

This subsection mainly describes the preparations for registering the HDLM
device in the VxVM disk group.
To register the HDLM device in the VxVM disk group, you must remove non-
HDLM devices from VxVM. If you have not yet removed non-HDLM devices,
first remove them as described in
Controller Basis on page 3-142
Basis on page 3-146
then perform the following procedure:
To register an HDLM device:
1 Make sure that VxVM recognizes HDLM devices.
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Execute the following commands sequentially to check whether VxVM
recognizes HDLM devices.
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in Removing Devices from VxVM on page
The dlnkmgr command's view -path operation
Check the HDLM devices that must be recognized by VxVM. The
following shows an example of executing the command:
The following describes the procedure for checking whether the
shaded HDLM devices are recognized.
vxdisk command
Make sure that the devices are recognized by VxVM. The following
shows an example of executing the command:
Creating an HDLM Environment
Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager User Guide (for Solaris(R))
Removing Devices from VxVM on a
or Removing Devices From VxVM on a Path
3-140, and
3-137