VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Storage Administrator Administrator's Guide

Volume Tasks
Starting a Volume
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Starting a Volume
This procedure attempts to enable (start) a stopped volume. When a
volume is successfully restarted, the volume is available for use again.
This procedure also performs any appropriate resynchronization
operations on the volume.
Under normal circumstances, volumes are automatically started when
the system reboots. You can use this procedure to restart a volume that
you stopped manually or to attempt to restart a volume that was stopped
in some other manner. If a volume cannot be started, the volume remains
unusable.
To start a volume
Step 1. Select the (stopped) volume to be started.
Step 2. Choose Volumes > Start (Selected menu) or Volume Start (Command
Launcher).
Step 3. Complete the Start Volume dialog box as follows:
When you have provided all necessary information in the dialog box,
click OK.
The volume’s state should change to Started.
Volume(s): If the correct volume name is not already displayed in
this field, type the volume’s name or click Browse to
select the volume.
Notes:
• Starting a RAID-5 volume enables the volume and resynchronizes
parity, if necessary.
• Starting a mirrored volume enables the volume and resynchronizes
the mirrors to ensure that they are consistent.