vxvm troubleshooting - claim ownership of disk for new diskgroup

this is the issue

trying to add a disk to a diskgroup via vxdiskadm option 1 - the disk used to belong to a solaris host (this is emc symmetrix device)- and the disk is already owned by a diskgroup on the eupr0037 (now decommisoned) and I want to add it to eupr0201

when I do a vxdisk list cxtxtdx it shows the disk as owned by a dgprapdcd01 (a dg on the decommed eupr0037)

the solution is simple – run the following command

vxdisk –f init cxtxdx

and then run a vxdisk list cxtxdx and you will see diff ownership for the disk and no group assigned to it

you can then run a vxdiskadm > option 1 and readd the disk you want to the diskgroup you want