How to configure disk to use for veritas volume manager (VxVM)

• Detect new disk -> dfsadm, cfgadm -c configure control_number

  li> Labeling disk -> format, choose disk number, label

• Configure disks

# vxdisksetup -i disk_name

or using vxdiskadm -> choose 1. Add or initialize one or more disks

• Make diskgroup

# vxdg init dg_name disk_name=device_name

* vxdg init backupdg backupdg01=Disk_24

• Make volume

# vxassist -g backupdg maxsize

2005636815

# vxassist -g backupdg make backuplv 2005636815

*size=output from vxassist -g dg_name maxsize

• Start volume

# vxvol -g backupdg startall

• Make Filesystem

# mkfs -F vxfs /dev/vx/rdsk/backupdg/backuplv

• Mounting Filesystem

# mkdir /backup

# mount -F vxfs /dev/vx/dsk/backupdg/backuplv /backup

• Edit /etc/vfstab