Veritas 4.1 Installation Guide (HP-UX 11i v3, February 2007)

5 Upgrading VxFS Disk Layout......................................................................................49
Upgrading VxFS 3.5 on HP–UX 11i Version 2 to VxFS 4.1 on HP–UX 11i Version 3...........................49
Upgrading VxFS 4.1 on HP–UX 11i Version 2 to VxFS 4.1 on HP–UX 11i Version 3...........................50
6 Migrating to VxVM 4.1 on HP-UX 11i v3..................................................................51
Converting Unused LVM Physical Volumes to VxVM Disks...............................................................51
Converting LVM Volume Groups to VxVM Disk Groups....................................................................51
Conversion Speed.................................................................................................................................54
Comparison Between LVM and VxVM Commands.............................................................................54
Comparison of LVM and VxVM Tasks.................................................................................................57
VxVM Features With no LVM Equivalent............................................................................................63
LVM Features With no VxVM Equivalent............................................................................................64
7 Removing Veritas 4.1 Products....................................................................................67
Removing VxVM..................................................................................................................................67
Moving VxVM Volumes to LVM Volumes......................................................................................67
Shutting Down VxVM.....................................................................................................................68
Removing Full VxVM (B9116BA)....................................................................................................68
Removing Base-VXVM 4.1 ..............................................................................................................68
Removing VxFS.....................................................................................................................................68
Removing HP OnlineJFS (B3929EA) 4.1..........................................................................................68
Removing Base-VXFS 4.1.................................................................................................................68
8 VxVM 4.1, New Style DSFs and HP-UX Native Multipathing..................................69
Introduction..........................................................................................................................................69
Legacy View (Old Style DSFs).........................................................................................................69
Agile View (New Style DSFs)..........................................................................................................69
VxVM does not support New Style DSFs.......................................................................................69
HP-UX Native Multipathing and Veritas DMP...............................................................................69
Veritas DMP Behavior on HP–UX 11iv3.........................................................................................69
A Appendix......................................................................................................................71
Controlling Memory Utilization of VxFS 4.1 on HP-UX 11i v3............................................................71
Controlling the inode Cache............................................................................................................71
Controlling the Buffer Cache...........................................................................................................72
LVM Volume Groups to VxVM Conversion Error Messages...............................................................72
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