What is VXDG?

The vxdg utility manages volume manager disk groups. You can use vxdg to specify that a disk group is cluster-sharable. The -s option to vxdg is provided to initialize or import a disk group as “shared.”

How to Remove disk from diskgroup in vxvm?

You can remove a disk on which some subdisks of volumes are defined. For example, you can consolidate all the volumes onto one disk. If you use vxdiskadm to remove a disk, you can choose to move volumes off that disk. To do this, run vxdiskadm and select Remove a disk from the main menu.

How do I add a disk to ASM Diskgroup?

1. Create ASM disk. Get the Lun name from storage team. Lun Name – /dev/sda1.
2. Check the ASM Disks, Check the newly added disk, $sudo oracleasm listdisks.
3. Create the ASM Diskgroup. $sqlplus / as sysasm.
4. Check the rebalance status. $sqlplus / as sysasm.
5. Check the newly added disk in ASM Diskgroup.

How do you remove the volume?

You can delete a volume from either the Disk Management snap-in or the command line. Deleting a volume permanently erases the data stored on the volume. From the Disk Management snap-in, simply right-click the volume and then click Delete Volume.

How do I delete a Veritas File System?

Moving volumes to disk partitions

1. Evacuate disks using the vxdiskadm command, the VOM GUI, or the vxevac utility.
2. Remove the evacuated disks from VxVM control by entering: # vxdg rmdisk diskname # vxdisk rm devname.
3. Decide which volume to move first, and if the volume is mounted, unmount it.

What is nodg in VxVM?

nodg Specifies to an operation that no disk group has been defined. For example, if the root disk is not under VxVM control, bootdgis set to nodg. If you have upgraded your system to VxVM 4.0, you may find it convenient to continue to configure a disk group named rootdgas the default disk group (defaultdg).

What is the vxdgutility?

DESCRIPTION The vxdgutility performs basic administrative operations on disk groups. Operations include the creation of disk groups, the addition of disks to a disk group, disk group split/join, and disk group imports and deports. Note A license is necessary to use the Disk Group Split/Join feature.

What is vxdg in Linux?

/usr/sbin/vxdg – The vxdg utility performs administrative operations on disk groups. Caution: Do not attempt to change the value of bootdg.

How do I change the default behavior of vxdg?

By default, vxdgonly allows disk groups to contain disks that conform with these guidelines. The following options change the behavior of vxdg: -o override Performs the disk group task and ignores any storage-specific guidelines.