Deporting a Disk Group

This procedure makes a disk group and its volumes inaccessible. Once deported, a disk group cannot be used until it is imported. You can deport a disk group to make the disk group temporarily unavailable.

While a disk group is deported, you cannot remove and reuse any of its disks. To remove disks, you must import the disk group and then either destroy the disk group (to remove all of its disks) or remove selected disks from the disk group.

To deport a disk group

Select the disk group to be deported.
Choose Disk Groups > Deport (Selected menu) or Disk Group Deport (Command Launcher).

Complete the Deport Disk Group dialog box as follows:

Disk Group Name:	If the correct disk group name is not already displayed in this field, type the disk group's name or click Browse to select the disk group.
Options	Click Show Options to access the optional settings for this task. To change the name of the disk group at deport, type a new disk group name in the New Name field. To set up a host machine to import the deported disk group at reboot, type the host ID in the New Host field.

When you have provided all necessary information in the dialog box, click OK.

Notes:

This task requires a disk group name.
A deported disk group cannot be accessed. To access a deported disk group, the disk group must be imported.
The rootdg disk group cannot be deported.
A disk group cannot be deported if any volumes in that disk group are in use (open).
When a disk group is deported, the host ID stored on all disks in the disk group is cleared and the disk group is not reimported automatically when the system is rebooted. However, if you specify a host in New Host option, the specified host will import the disk group at reboot.

Deporting a Disk Group

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