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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September 2nd, 2010 at 12:15 am
Best for the beginners
August 25th, 2011 at 12:37 am
Really helpful, and simplified…. easy to understand…
Great Job…