Hello,
Assuming that LUNS from storage are masked & presented correctly to the OS .. you need following steps then:
-- Ensure disk is visible to OS , if OS is solaris, run devfsadm -Cv ... will scan devices.
-- Once disk is visible in OS, put a VTOC on the disk using format command (label the disk)
-- Once a disk is labelled, you need to run "vxdctl enable" in veritas so that veritas can rescan all the disks
-- Once vxdctl command has finished, you should see the new disk under "vxdisk list" command, the status of disk should be "online invalid" . This status indicates that disk is seen by veritas however it is not under use of veritas currently.
-- Initialize the disk under veritas using "vxdisksetup -i <disk>" , the disk here represents the name you see in first coulmn of "vxdisk list" output.
-- If you have an existing diskgroup then u can add this disk to existing diskgroup or else can create a new diskgroup using "vxdg init <dgname> <name>=<disk>" ... with this command, new dg with the specified dgname would be created, <name> would be some meaningful name you want to give for e.g oracledg01 & disk is your new veritas disk. for e.g
vxdg init oracledg oracledg01=c1t0059999auud23s2
-- once disk is added, you can create a volume over it using "vxassist -g <dgname> make <volume> <size>
for e.g
vxassist -g oracledg make oravol 10g
-- now its time to create filesystem, if you want to make vxfs filesystem
# mkfs -F vxfs /dev/vx/rdsk/oracledg/oravol
--you can mount the filesystem over some mount point & ready to use
hope this helps
G
