Unable to add disk to Veritas Volume Manager

[nitinkgoud]

Hello,
We removed a disk beacuese it was failing. The disk was not removed from veritas control, we just plugged out the old disk and plugged in the new one. Now we can see the new disk using format, but we cant see it using vxdisk list or vxdiskadm. vxdctl enable did not help either. the disk is a internal disk. however format dose not show c#t#d#s# but as c#t###############.
Any help will be appreciated.

 

[cndcadams]

nitinkgoud;

What model system is this, does it have internal fibre drives?

If drives are fibre look at sun doc 40842.

Also if replaceing the root mirror drive check dumpadm command and make sure the drive you are replaceing is not the solaris dump device. If it is make sure you change your dumpdevice to point to your mirrored drive that is working. If you don't do this you may end up with 2 entries for the same drive when running vxdisk list. The only way to clear that would be to reboot.

well a couple other things you can try;




1) did you do a vxdctl enable after adding the new drive? If not run this command and check veritas to seee if new drive has been updated.

If drives are fibre the below is not a complete list of commands that should be run.

2) you should put the old drive back in and run vxdiskadm and run option 4

3) then remove the old drive and put the new one in. run vxdtcl enable

4)use vxdiskadm option 5 to replace the failed or removed disk.


Thanks

CA

 

[nitinkgoud]

One more thing the there was only one disk in that diskgrp "appsdg" since the disk was removed without VVM knowledge we cant even see the disk droup. And the disk that was replaced was not a root disk.