Veritas Storage Foundation Portable Data Containers: Cross-Platform Data Sharing 5.0.1 Administrators Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009

Rescan for the disk using this command:

# vxdisk scandisks

Type this command to set up the disk:

# vxdisksetup -i disk

Creating a CDS disk from a disk that is already in a disk group

To create a CDS disk from a disk that is already in a disk group

■ Run the vxcdsconvert command.

See “Converting non-CDS disks to CDS disks” on page 24.

Creating CDS disk groups

You can create a CDS disk group in the following ways:

■ Creating a CDS disk group by using vxdg init

■ Creating a CDS disk group by using vxdiskadm

Creating a CDS disk group by using vxdg init

Note: The disk group version must be 110 or greater.

To create a CDS disk group by using the vxdg init command

■ Type the following command:

# vxdg init diskgroup disklist [cds={on|off}]

The format defaults to a CDS disk group, unless this is overridden by the

/etc/default/vxdg file, or by specifying the cds argument.

See the vxdg(1M) manual page for more information.

Creating a CDS disk group by using vxdiskadm

You cannot create a CDS disk group when encapsulating an existing disk, or when

converting an LVM volume.

When initializing a disk, if the target disk group is an existing CDS disk group,

vxdiskadm will only allow the disk to be initialized as a CDS disk. If the target disk

23Setting up your system

Creating CDS disk groups