No need to reinitialize. It does no damage to reinit an unused disk, though.
vxdisksetup -i <device> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Thomas Graham <lktho...@gmail.com> wrote: > we successful remove that disk from volume manager and vxdisk list > does not show sdn and sdo. > > one question after this, if we want to reuse sdn and sdo to build > another cluster, should we reinitialize it ? and how to reinitialize > it ? > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:04 PM, William Havey <bbha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thomas, > > > > I see several issues in the output. > > 1) Please send a vxdisk -o alldgs list output so we can see if sdn and > sdo > > are associated with a deported disk group. > > > > 1A) Do a vxdisk list sdn and vxdisk list sdo to see if the disk has the > > "hostid" field filled in. If yes, its owned by that host and a > reinitialize > > will clear that field. > > > > 2) There is a disabled disk group, mailstorage. To clear the disabled > flag, > > deport and import the disk group. > > > > 3) A 3 disk, CDS disk group has a name of vxcoorddg. This appears to be a > > coordinator disk group, especially because of the shared flag indicating > SF > > CFS is in use. > > > > So, in answer to your question sdn and sdo appear to be not in a disk > group > > so No, vxdisk rmdisk need not be done. > > > > Bill > > > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 4:38 AM, Thomas Graham <lktho...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> [r...@server etc]# vxdisk list > >> DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS > >> sda auto:none - - online invalid > >> sdi auto:cdsdisk mailstorage01 mailstorage online > >> dgdisabled shared > >> sdj auto:cdsdisk sdc vxcoorddg online > >> sdk auto:cdsdisk sdd vxcoorddg online > >> sdl auto:cdsdisk sde vxcoorddg online > >> sdm auto:cdsdisk mailstorage02 mailstorage online > >> dgdisabled shared > >> sdn auto:cdsdisk snapdisk snapdg online > >> sdo auto:cdsdisk - - online > >> [r...@app3-server etc]# vxdg destroy snapdg > >> VxVM vxdg ERROR V-5-1-586 Disk group snapdg: deport failed: Format > >> error in disk private region > >> [r...@server etc]# vxdisk list > >> DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS > >> sda auto:none - - online invalid > >> sdi auto:cdsdisk mailstorage01 mailstorage online > >> dgdisabled shared > >> sdj auto:cdsdisk sdc vxcoorddg online > >> sdk auto:cdsdisk sdd vxcoorddg online > >> sdl auto:cdsdisk sde vxcoorddg online > >> sdm auto:cdsdisk mailstorage02 mailstorage online > >> dgdisabled shared > >> sdn auto:cdsdisk - - online > >> sdo auto:cdsdisk - - online > >> > >> is it necessary to do vxdisk rmdisk on sdn and sdo? we need to use > >> these two LUN from SAN on another non-related CFS cluster and we want > >> to move it out from this cluster. Please advice. > >> -- > >> Thomas G Lau > >> Tel: 93239670 > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > >> http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-vx > > > > > > > > -- > Thomas G Lau > Tel: 93239670 >
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