Q: Problem seeing regular SCSI disk from within VxVM, cannot add/initalize it as it?s not listed. A: Use format -e, select disk, make sure disk has slice 2 marked as backup and consumes the entire disk, label disk (versions prior to VxVM 4.1 do not support EFI labels, select SMI (Sun VTOC)) # vxdctl enable # vxdiskadd c2t9d0 Q: How do I rename vmdisks, subdisks or plexes, the standard names are no good. A: Syntax: vxedit -g rename # vxedit -g datadg rename datadg01 data-t9 Q: How do I remove an entire volume, incl. it?s plexes and subdisks ? A: Syntax: vxassist -g remove volume # vxassist -g datadg remove volume myvol Q: How do I grow a volume containing a mounted UFS filesystem? A: First example will use space in the diskgroup pool, in the second example you specify which disk to use. # vxassist -g datadg growby myvol 2g # growfs -M /myfs /dev/vx/rdsk/datadg/myvol or # vxassist -g datadg growby myvol 2g disk-t5 # growfs -M /myfs /dev/vx/rdsk/datadg/myvol Q: How do I grow a non-striped mirrored volume containing a mounted UFS filesystem ? A: This will result in a concat-mirror volume. # vxassist -g datadg growby myvol 2g disk-t3 disk-t4 # growfs -M /myfs /dev/vx/rdsk/datadg/myvol Q: Remove disk from diskgroup, then from VxVM A: # vxdg -g datadg rmdisk data-t14 # vxdisk rm c2t14d0 Q: How do I remove a diskgroup, it keeps telling me ?Cannot remove last disk in disk group? A: Remove all disks using above procedure, when it gets to the last disk it?ll winge. # vxdg -g datadg destroy datadg # vxdisk list # vxdisk rm c2t13d0 (or whatever your last disk is called) Setting up a striped volume can be done in many ways, here are two of them: a) Striped volume, let VxVM decide the layout using diskgroup # vxassist -g -U fsgen make myvolume 10g layout=stripe b) Striped volume, you decide which disks to use # vxassist -g -U fsgen make myvolume 10g layout=stripe \ stwidth=128k ncolumn= disk1 disk2 disk3 disk4 disk5 ( z http://www.unixzone.dk/unix/20060703/vxvm-notes/ )