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Configure disk to use for veritas volume manager (VxVM)

Posted by piyut on Sunday, September 16, 2007

1. Detect new disk -> dfsadm, cfgadm -c configure control_number

2. Labeling disk -> format, choose disk number, label

3. Configure disks

# vxdisksetup -i disk_name

or using vxdiskadm -> choose 1. Add or initialize one or more disks

4. make diskgroup

# vxdg init dg_name disk_name=device_name

* vxdg init backupdg backupdg01=Disk_24

5. make volume

# vxassist -g backupdg maxsize

2096883712

# vxassist -g backupdg make backuplv 2096883712

*size=output from vxassist -g dg_name maxsize

6. Start volume

# vxvol -g backupdg startall

7. Make Filesystem

# mkfs -F vxfs /dev/vx/rdsk/backupdg/backuplv

8. Mounting Filesystem

# mkdir /backup

# mount -F vxfs /dev/vx/dsk/backupdg/backuplv /backup

9. Edit /etc/vfstab

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