How to bring the Disk into diskgroup on veritas.
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Answer / sbrahman75
Force a lip event on the hba’s so they will re-login in Storage
luxadm –e forcelip /dev/cfg/c5
luxadm –e forcelip /dev/cfg/c7
Enable the disk devices.
vxdctl enable
vxdisk –o alldgs list
initialize newdisk
vxdisksetup –i <diskname>
Add disk to disk group
vxdg –g oradg adddisk oradg05= <diskname>
vxdg –g oradg adddisk oradg06= <diskname>
Verify free disk space
vxassist –g oradg maxsize
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Answer / rahmaddulla
#vxdg -g <disk groupname> adddisk diskname=device name
or
vxdiskadd devicename
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Answer / spider
use command
vxdisksetup -i <disk>
then do
vxdisk list
this should show the disk in vx control.
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