Moving offline VDisks to their original I/O group using the CLI

You can move offline virtual disks (VDisks) to their original I/O group using the command-line interface (CLI).

Beginning with SAN Volume Controller 4.3.1, the recovery I/O group is no longer used for VDisk recovery, but it is possible that VDisks were moved to the I/O group before the upgrade.
After a node or an I/O group fails, you can use the following procedure to move offline VDisks to their original I/O group.
Attention: Do not move VDisks to an offline I/O group. Ensure that the I/O group is online before you move the VDisks back to avoid any further data loss.

Perform the following steps to move offline VDisks to their original I/O group:

  1. Issue the following command to move the VDisk back into the original I/O group:
    svctask chvdisk -iogrp IOGRPNAME/ID -force
     vdiskname/ID

    where IOGRPNAME/ID is the name or ID of the original I/O group and vdiskname/ID is the name or ID of the offline VDisk.

  2. Issue the following command to verify that the VDisks are now online:
    svcinfo lsvdisk -filtervalue IO_group_name=
     IOGRPNAME/ID

    where IOGRPNAME/ID is the name or ID of the original I/O group.

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