06-05-2018
Well done for getting the disk out of the VG. That's usually the hardest part.
Assuming that you have now swapped the drive, you just need to add the new disk into
rootvg, mirror the logical volumes, write the boot block and set the boot list to have both available.
This doc is quite good at leading you through:-
IBM Mirroring the rootvg Volume Group for AIX - United States
Kind regards,
Robin
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