Yeah Vbe,

Even, I have no clue about their entry in /etc/lvmtab.. As you said, they can better do a

#ioscan -fnC disk to scan things again if they dont prefer reboot.

Or,

They can either scan again for /etc/lvmtab..

"Hopefully, they also need to know how to change the pvlinks / primary and alternate path for disks as they are using EMC clariion.. vgscan would change them and they might confuse seeing the new links appearing.."

However, the best thing they could have done is by exporting.. Or, I also think, they have taken the disks out through navi (i.e) not presenting it to hp-ux BOX but, was it removed from the servers point of view is the BIG question here.

One shows half and the other shows nothing. LOL. They could have tried export or ioscan (full) or reboot or lvm procedures of removing a disk instead of trying a insf and navicli..

Let's see, we can predict anything only if we have a reply from them. Hopefully...........

-DB