Introduction

This chapter describes the operations for managing disks used by the VERITAS Volume ManagerVxVM). This includes placing disks under VxVM control, initializing disks, and removing and replacing disks.

	NOTE: Most VxVM commands require superuser or equivalent privileges.

	NOTE: Rootability or bringing the root disk under control, is not supported for this release of VxVM for HP-UX. All commands listed in this guide are not applicable to the root disk.

	NOTE: Disks that are controlled by the LVM subsystem cannot be used directly as VxVM disks, but they can be converted so that their volume groups and logical volumes become VxVM disk groups and volumes. For more information on conversion, see the VERITAS Volume Manager Migration Guide.

For information about configuring and administering the Dynamic Multipathing (DMP) feature of VxVM that is used with multiported disk arrays, see Chapter 3 “Administering Dynamic Multipathing (DMP)”.