I think you cannot do option 11 first.

The right way is to do opt 4, remove/add disk then opt 5.

if I can recall correctly when you do opt11 then you later try to do opt 4/5 it may fail or give some error. I think you need to try to bring the disk back online before doing option 4.

But if you cannot do opt4/5 there is a workaround from sunsolve.

Solution 212645 : How to replace a root drive in Volume manager if vxdiskadm option4/option5 is not working

Btw I've never attempted this procedure before, so use at your own risk.

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Removing the Root disk
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1) # vxdg -g rootdg -k rmdisk

2) # vxprint -htg rootdg
remove the plexs associated with the original disk (disabled nodevice)

3) # vxplex dis opt-01 (run against all plexes associated with root disk)
- this is a standard plex that is creatd in encapsulation

4) # vxedit -r rm opt-01 (run against all plexes associated with root disk)

5) # vxedit rm

6) # vxdisk list
should no longer be listed as a removed entry

7) # vxdisk rm c#t#d#s2 (root disk)



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Replacing the root disk
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1) preform drive replacement steps per system requirements
if drive has already been replaced, skip this step

2) # format
Delete all partitions except for slice 2, and label the disk

3) # vxdctl enable

4) # vxdisksetup -i c#t#d# (rootdisk)

5) # vxdg -g rootdg adddisk rootdisk=c#t#d#

6) # vxdiskadm - opt6 to mirror
choose root mirror as the disk to mirror
root disk is destination disk
this should recognize that it should be a root disk and write a
bootblock onto it

7) # prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c#t#d#s2 (rootdisk)
check to make sure that there are regular partitions


Product

VERITAS Volume Manager 3.2 for Solaris 9
VERITAS Volume Manager 4.0 Software
VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Software
VERITAS Volume Manager 3.2 Software
VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1.1 Software
VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Software
VERITAS Volume Manager 3.0.6 Software
VERITAS Volume Manager 3.0.4 Software
VERITAS Volume Manager 3.0.3 Software
VERITAS Volume Manager 3.0.2 Software



Keywords

volume manager, rootdisk replacement fails



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