2.9 Disable access to (deport) a disk group

Disk group is deported if disks groups ownership needs to be transferred to another system or all the disks in a disk groups needs to be freed from group. Disks in a disk groups to be deported should not be active.

Select menu item 9 (Remove access to (deport) a disk group) from the vxdiskadm main menu.

Remove access to (deport) a disk group
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/DeportDiskGroup

Use this menu operation to remove access to a disk group that is
currently enabled (imported) by this system. Deport a disk
group if you intend to move the disks in a disk group to another
system. Also, deport a disk group if you want to use all of the
disks remaining in a disk group for some new purpose.

You will be prompted for the name of a disk group. You will also
be asked if the disks should be disabled (offlined). For
removable disk devices on some systems, it is important to
disable all access to the disk before removing the disk.

Enter name of disk group [,list,q,?] (default: list) newdg

The requested operation is to disable access to the removable
disk group named newdg. This disk group is stored on the
following disks:
newdg01 on device c1t1d0s2

You can choose to disable access to (also known as “offline”)
these disks. This may be necessary to prevent errors if
you actually remove any of the disks from the system.

Disable (offline) the indicated disks? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)
Continue with operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y)

Removal of disk group newdg was successful.

Disable another disk group? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)

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