Look at the quoted output above: the lspv commands lists not only the disks but also to which VG they belong to. i.e. hdisk7, hdisk8, hdisk9, etc. all belong to the volume group vg_3. The two remaining disks, hdisk1 and hdisk8, belong to no VG, hence "None".

There are two possible scenarios: the disks contain a VG but where brought newly to this system and the system doesn't know about the VG. You can use the readvgda command in this case to look if the disk is empty or not and - if it is not - do a "learning import":

Code:

importvg -y <VGname> [-V <MajorNumber>] [-n] <hdisk-device>

The second scenario is that the disks are really empty. In this case you just create a new VG or add them to an existing one.

You can tell the difference by the readvgda-command as described above which reads the "volume group descriptor area" of a disk. But you can also do a

Code:

chdev -a pv=yes <hd-device>

which either reads an already existing PV-ID (physical volume ID) and adds it to the ODM or, if none is there, creates one on the disk. Then you can try the above-mentioned importvg-command which will either fail (if the disk is empty) or succeed.

I hope this helps.

bakunin