Adding physical volumes to a physical volume group, Assigning an lvg to a pvg, Removing an assignment between an lvg and a pvg – FUJITSU CentricStor V3.1D User Manual

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Selected system administrator activities

Partitioning on the basis of volume groups

4.1.3.4

Adding physical volumes to a physical volume group

Only physical volumes contained in the physical library may be specified.

The form and detailed information are provided in the

section “Physical Volume Opera-

tions » Add Physical Volumes” on page 223

.

The following information must be specified:

the VSN of the first physical volume

an entry specifying whether the header of the added volume should be uncondi-
tionally overwritten with a CentricStor header

the physical volume group (see

section “Adding a physical volume group” on

page 66

)

the number of physical volumes

the type of physical volumes

The physical volumes are then incorporated in the CentricStor pool.

4.1.3.5

Assigning an LVG to a PVG

The form and detailed information are provided in the

section “Physical Volume Opera-

tions » Link/Unlink Volume Groups” on page 221

.

The following elements must be selected:

the logical volume group

the physical volume group (original)

a second physical volume group (copy, only applies for “Dual Save”)

The logical volume group is then assigned to the selected physical volume group(s).

4.1.3.6

Removing an assignment between an LVG and a PVG

Before executing this function, all logical volumes must be removed from the logical

group.

The form and detailed information are provided in the

section “Physical Volume Opera-

tions » Link/Unlink Volume Groups” on page 221

.

The following elements must be selected:

the logical volume group

the physical volume group

The original physical volume group must be set to ’-unlinked-’. If a Dual-Save LVG
exists, the physical Dual-Save PVG must also be set to '-unlinked-'.

The assignment between the logical and physical volume groups is then removed.

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