New disks must be set up on the system, placed under VxVM
control, then added to a dynamic disk group before they can be used
for volumes. The Actions > Rescan task scans for new devices.
When you place a disk under VxVM control, the disk is either
encapsulated (if your system supports encapsulation) or initialized.
Encapsulation preserves any existing data on the disk in volumes.
Initialization destroys any existing data on the disk. (You can
encapsulate a disk to preserve the data.)
This task assigns a default VxVM disk name to the disk. Once
the disk is under VxVM control, you can use the Rename
Disk task (“Renaming
a Disk ”) to change the VxVM disk name (see “Renaming
a Disk ”).
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