The HP-UX system uses the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) to manage the disk devices on all peripheral storage devices including the storage system. Under LVM disk management, a volume group consisting of multiple disks is formed, and then the volume group is divided into logical partitions and managed as a logical volume. These procedures should be executed for all device files corresponding to the new SCSI disk devices.
Do not partition the raw/FX devices. These volumes are not managed by LVM and do not need any further configuration after their character-type device files have been created and verified.
If desired, the HP-UX System Administrator Manager (SAM) can be used instead of UNIX commands to configure the SCSI disk devices.