Getting error "Disk and diskgroup versions are incompatible" when adding a new disk of type cdsdisk to an existing disk group created that was created using VxVM 3.5 or earlier.

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Description

Error Message

VxVM vxdg ERROR V-5-1-10127 associating disk-media with :
Disk and diskgroup versions are incompatible

Resolution

Diskgroupscreated in VxVM 3.5 or earlier does not support CDS disks. With 4.0 and above,when a disk is initialized from command line (vxdisksetup) or VEA by default,sets the disk layout to type "cdsdisk". Re-initialize the disk as sliced and addit to the disk group.
#/etc/vx/bin/vxdisksetup -i format=sliced
#  vxdg-g adddisk=

 
 

 

Issue/Introduction

Getting error "Disk and diskgroup versions are incompatible" when adding a new disk of type cdsdisk to an existing disk group created that was created using VxVM 3.5 or earlier.