Have you ever encounter rebooting a server and your Veritas filesystems are missing? Most cases these filesystems were not imported during boot up and is not available for OS to use. Importing a disk groups in VxVM does not need any reboot, follow these simple steps and you will be able to get back your disk groups in no time.
List missing disk groups:
root@solaris# vxdisk -o alldgs list DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS c0t0d0s2 auto:none - - online invalid c1t0d0s2 auto:none - - online invalid c8t0d3s2 auto:sliced - (datadg) online c8t0d9s2 auto:sliced - (datadg) online c8t0d10s2 auto:sliced - (datadg) online c8t0d11s2 auto:sliced - (datadg) online c8t0d12s2 auto:sliced - (datadg) online c8t0d13s2 auto:sliced - (datadg) online c8t0d14s2 auto:sliced - (datadg) online c8t0d15s2 auto:sliced - (datadg) online c8t0d16s2 auto:sliced - (datadg) online c8t0d17s2 auto:sliced - (datadg) online
Import the missing disk groups:
root@solaris# vxdg import datadg
List disk groups:
root@solaris# vxdisk list DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS c0t0d0s2 auto:none - - online invalid c1t0d0s2 auto:none - - online invalid c8t0d3s2 auto:sliced c8t0d3 datadg online c8t0d9s2 auto:sliced c8t0d9 datadg online c8t0d10s2 auto:sliced c8t0d10 datadg online c8t0d11s2 auto:sliced c8t0d11 datadg online c8t0d12s2 auto:sliced c8t0d12 datadg online c8t0d13s2 auto:sliced c8t0d13 datadg online c8t0d14s2 auto:sliced c8t0d14 datadg online c8t0d15s2 auto:sliced c8t0d15 datadg online c8t0d16s2 auto:sliced c8t0d16 datadg online c8t0d17s2 auto:sliced c8t0d17 datadg online