Tips

01. To exclude disks from Volume Manager control

Create a file called /etc/vx/disks.exclude and place the disk name into this file

 # cat /etc/vx/disks.exclude
 c1t1d0
 c1t2d0

02. To exclude controllers from Volume Manager control

Create a file called /etc/vx/cntrls.exclude and place the disk name into this file

 # cat /etc/vx/cntrls.exclude
 c1
 c5

03. To make the new disks detected under Veritas

 Make sure the new disks are labled
 vxdctl enable
 vxdisk scandisks new