How to clear the failing flag on a veritas volume manager disk:
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Answer / sbrahman75
Use the vxdisk list command to find out which disks are failing:
# vxdisk list
DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS
c1t1d0s2 auto:sliced mydg01 mydg online
c1t2d0s2 auto:sliced mydg02 mydg online failing
c1t3d0s2 auto:sliced mydg03 mydg online
# vxedit set failing=off mydg02
# vxdisk list
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