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kartik_symantec
13 years ago

How to map drive name from vxdisk list to actual drive name

Hi,   This question is for SF on Solaris, I'd like to know how to map the drive name as given by vxdisk list to the actual drive in cxtxdx format?   For instance, my output of vxdisk list is:...
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  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    13 years ago

    vxdisk -e list

    About "vxdctl enable" - do you feel that the description in man pages is not descriptive enough?

    from man pages (my bold):

    Requests that vxconfigd enter enabled mode, import all disk groups, and rebuild the volume device node directories. This operation can be used even if vxconfigd is already in enabled mode. The primary purpose for using this operation when in enabled mode is to rebuild the volume device nodes. This operation causes vxconfigd to scan for any disks that were newly added since vxconfigd was last started. In this manner, disks can be dynamically configured to the system and then recognized by VxVM. If the multipathing support is available, this option also causes vxconfigd to rebuild the DMP internal database to reflect the new state of the system after addition of the disk devices. The new disk devices detected by vxconfigd are added in the DMP database with their associated subpaths and parent DMP device.  
     By default, VxVM performs a full scan of the device tree when performing device discovery. To discover only newly added disks that are not already known to VxVM, specify the -f option.  
     

     

Marianne's avatar
Marianne
Level 6
13 years ago

vxdisk -e list

About "vxdctl enable" - do you feel that the description in man pages is not descriptive enough?

from man pages (my bold):

Requests that vxconfigd enter enabled mode, import all disk groups, and rebuild the volume device node directories. This operation can be used even if vxconfigd is already in enabled mode. The primary purpose for using this operation when in enabled mode is to rebuild the volume device nodes. This operation causes vxconfigd to scan for any disks that were newly added since vxconfigd was last started. In this manner, disks can be dynamically configured to the system and then recognized by VxVM. If the multipathing support is available, this option also causes vxconfigd to rebuild the DMP internal database to reflect the new state of the system after addition of the disk devices. The new disk devices detected by vxconfigd are added in the DMP database with their associated subpaths and parent DMP device.  
 By default, VxVM performs a full scan of the device tree when performing device discovery. To discover only newly added disks that are not already known to VxVM, specify the -f option.