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1. Remove the disk with option 3 of vxdiskadm

Volume Manager Support OperationsMenu: VolumeManager/Disk

1 Add or initialize one or more disks2 Remove a disk3 Remove a disk for replacement4 Replace a failed or removed disk5 Mirror volumes on a disk6 Move volumes from a disk7 Enable access to (import) a disk group8 Remove access to (deport) a disk group9 Enable (online) a disk device10 Disable (offline) a disk device11 Mark a disk as a spare for a disk group12 Turn off the spare flag on a disk13 Remove (deport) and destroy a disk group14 Unrelocate subdisks back to a disk15 Exclude a disk from hot-relocation use16 Make a disk available for hot-relocation use17 Prevent multipathing/Suppress devices from VxVM's view18 Allow multipathing/Unsuppress devices from VxVM's view19 List currently suppressed/non-multipathed devices

20 Change the disk naming schemelist List disk information

? Display help about menu?? Display help about the menuing systemq Exit from menus

Select an operation to perform: 3

Remove a disk for replacementMenu: VolumeManager/Disk/RemoveForReplace

Use this menu operation to remove a physical disk from a disk

group, while retaining the disk name. This changes the statefor the disk name to a "removed" disk. If there are anyinitialized disks that are not part of a disk group, you will begiven the option of using one of these disks as a replacement.

Enter disk name [,list,q,?] list

Disk group: rootdg

DM NAME DEVICE TYPE PRIVLEN PUBLEN STATE

dm rootdisk01 c0t1d0 simple 1024 4188096 -dm rootdisk02 c0t2d0 simple 1024 4188096 -

Enter disk name [,list,q,?] rootdisk01

The following volumes will lose mirrors as a result of thisoperation:

rootvol standvol swapvol

No data on these volumes will be lost.

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The following devices are available as replacements:

c0t3d0

You can choose one of these disks now, to replace rootdisk01.Select "none" if you do not wish to select a replacement disk.

Choose a device, or select "none"[,none,q,?] (default: c0t3d0) none

The requested operation is to remove disk rootdisk01 from disk grouprootdg. The disk name will be kept, along with any volumes usingthe disk, allowing replacement of the disk.

Select "Replace a failed or removed disk" from the main menuwhen you wish to replace the disk.

Continue with operation? [y,n,q,?] (default: y) y

Removal of disk rootdisk01 completed successfully.

Remove another disk? [y,n,q,?] (default: n) n

2. Rescan the devices and initialize the replaced disk:

# vxdctl enable# /etc/vx/bin/vxdiskunsetup -C

For VxVM 3.5 on HP-UX 11iv1:

# /etc/vx/bin/vxdisksetup -iB c2t1d0

For VxVM 4.1/5.0 on HP-UX 11iv2 and 11iv3:

# /etc/vx/bin/vxdisksetup -iB format=hpdisk