Sounds like you might be from a Linux background ....
Volume Manager is like LVM (just better)....
Physical Volumes are like disks initialized by volume manager (you will need some label on the disk before you run vxdisksetup)
From the Physical Vo...
OK, what the upgrade script tries to do is to unencapsulate you boot disk (there a replenty doco on how to do it manually -- http://www.symantec.com/business/support/knowledge_base_results.jsp?SearchTerm=unencapsulate+boot+disk&ddProduct=&pid=&conte...
Not sure what this has todo with Storage Foundation ?
This is "normal" admin stuff .......
OK, so the main thing is that the tape drive will always have a device file (something like /dev/rmt or ... depends on the OS)...
Once you know what this...
Allgroups go go online in parallel.
To have certain groups go online first, put dependencies between groups.
Say Group4 (with 10 weight), will depend on Group1 (with 50 weight)......
Dependencies can go 4 groups deep ... and there are a number of...
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