Veritas Volume Manager – vxdiskadm

2.5 Replace a failed or removed disk

This option is used to replace a failed or removed disk . The new disk can be initialized or non initialized as this option does initialization .

Select menu item 5 (Replace a failed or removed disk) from the vxdiskadm main menu.

Replace a failed or removed disk
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/ReplaceDisk

Use this menu operation to specify a replacement disk for a disk
that you removed with the “Remove a disk for replacement” menu
operation, or that failed during use. You will be prompted for
a disk name to replace and a disk device to use as a replacement.
You can choose an uninitialized disk, in which case the disk will
be initialized, or you can choose a disk that you have already
initialized using the Add or initialize a disk menu operation.

Select a removed or failed disk [,list,q,?] disk02

The following devices are available as replacements:
c1t0d0s2 c1t1d0s2

You can choose one of these disks to replace disk02.
Choose “none” to initialize another disk to replace disk02.

Choose a device, or select “none”
[,none,q,?] (default: c1t0d0s2)

The requested operation is to use the initialized device c1t0d0s2
to replace the removed or failed disk disk02 in disk group rootdg.

Continue with operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y)

Replacement of disk disk02 in group rootdg with disk device
c1t0d0s2 completed successfully.

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2 Responses to “Veritas Volume Manager – vxdiskadm”

  1. pawan Says:

    Best for the beginners

  2. Vishwajeet Says:

    Really helpful, and simplified…. easy to understand…

    Great Job…

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