VXVM 6.1 – How to Configure a Veritas Disk using vxdisksetup?

by Ramdev · June 9, 2022

To initialize a disk for regular use, enter:

# /etc/vx/bin/vxdisksetup -i c2t1d0

or if enclosure-based naming is in use:

# /etc/vx/bin/vxdisksetup -i sena1_4

To initialize a disk for normal use, but set the private region size to 1MB instead of the default size of 32MB, enter:

# /etc/vx/bin/vxdisksetup -i c2t1d0 privlen=1m

NOTE :

1) The default private region size increased from 512KB to 1MB in release 3.2, and from 1MB to 32MB in release 5.0.

2) /etc/default/vxdisk Defaults file used by the vxdisk and vxdisksetup utilities.