Disk Group could not be imported on solaris server.
--> The disks within the Disk Group was in the sliced format while they required to be in CDS ( Cross-platform Data Sharing ) format.
--> The Disk Group version was 90 and to convert the disk group from sliced to CDS, it requires DG version 110 or higher.
--> Disk Group did not have enough space to proceed with the conversion of Disk Group from sliced to CDS.
I noticed that the disk format is sliced and not CDS hence I suggested customer to import the DG back to the Solaris box where actually the DG was created and then change the disk format to CDS. A CDS disk group allows cross-platform datasharing of VxVM objects, so that data written on one of the supported platform may be accessed on any other supported platform. A CDS disk group is composed only of CDS disks ( VM disks with the disk format "cdsdisk" ), and is only available for disk group version 110 and higher.

To upgrade the DG version following command executed:

#vxdg -T 110 upgrade tradingdg

Ran the following command to convert the disk group to CDS:

# vxcdsconvert -g  tradingdg  -o novolstop group---->  This step was not successful to lack free space in the DG hence asked customer to add a temporary disk to the DG in order to carry out and then plexes associated to "trading-datavol" could not be moved to the newly added disk as "trading-datavol" volume was too big for the new disk (25GB) to hold. Hence asked customer to take a backup of the volume "trading-datavol" and delete it then convert the DG to CDS and then again recreate the volume and put data back to the volume from the backup.

 

Unable to import the Disk Group that has been created on a solaris server.