After ‘vxdisk scandisk’, I can see ‘sdb’ showing up:
[root@vxvmtest01p ~]# vxdisk list
DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS
sda auto:none – – online invalid
sdb auto – – error
[root@vxvmtest01p ~]# /etc/vx/bin/vxdisksetup -i sdb
parted: invalid token: Yes
[root@vxvmtest01p ~]# /usr/lib/vxvm/diag.d/vxscsi -g sdb
geometry of sdb: nhead=64 nsect=256 ncyl=64 sectsz=512 rpm=15000 cap=1048576
[root@vxvmtest01p ~]# /etc/vx/bin/vxdisksetup -i sdb format=cdsdisk
[root@vxvmtest01p ~]# /usr/lib/vxvm/diag.d/vxscsi -g sdb
geometry of sdb: nhead=64 nsect=256 ncyl=64 sectsz=512 rpm=15000 cap=1048576
[root@vxvmtest01p ~]# vxdisk list sdb
Device: sdb
devicetag: sdb
type: auto
hostid:
disk: name= id=1239908571.11.vxvmtest01p.ch3.test.i.com
group: name= id=
info: format=cdsdisk,privoffset=256,pubslice=3,privslice=3
flags: online ready private autoconfig autoimport
pubpaths: block=/dev/vx/dmp/sdb3 char=/dev/vx/rdmp/sdb3
guid: {2f06b812-1dd2-11b2-b29d-6aabd4213448}
udid: OPNFILER%5FVIRTUAL-DISK%5FDISKS%5F4F504E46494C45003935776F474E2D716C73342D76536864
site: -
version: 3.1
iosize: min=512 (bytes) max=1024 (blocks)
public: slice=3 offset=65792 len=950016 disk_offset=0
private: slice=3 offset=256 len=65536 disk_offset=0
update: time=1239908572 seqno=0.2
ssb: actual_seqno=0.0
headers: 0 240
configs: count=1 len=51360
logs: count=1 len=4096
Defined regions:
config priv 000048-000239[000192]: copy=01 offset=000000 disabled
config priv 000256-051423[051168]: copy=01 offset=000192 disabled
log priv 051424-055519[004096]: copy=01 offset=000000 disabled
lockrgn priv 055520-055663[000144]: part=00 offset=000000
Multipathing information:
numpaths: 1
sdb state=enabled
[root@vxvmtest01p ~]# vxdisk list sdb | grep cds
info: format=cdsdisk,privoffset=256,pubslice=3,privslice=3
[root@vxvmtest01p ~]#
vxdiskadm to add the above disk to disk group
[root@vxvmtest01p ~]# vxdg list
NAME STATE ID
ch3dg enabled,cds 1239912830.19.vxvmtest01p.ch3.test.i.com
[root@vxvmtest01p ~]#
[root@vxvmtest01p ~]# vxdg list ch3dg
Group: ch3dg
dgid: 1239912830.19.vxvmtest01p.ch3.test.i.com
import-id: 1024.18
flags: cds
version: 140
alignment: 8192 (bytes)
ssb: on
autotagging: on
detach-policy: global
dg-fail-policy: dgdisable
copies: nconfig=default nlog=default
config: seqno=0.1027 permlen=51360 free=51357 templen=2 loglen=4096
config disk sdb copy 1 len=51360 state=clean online
log disk sdb copy 1 len=4096
[root@vxvmtest01p ~]#