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

Table 6-2 Command Comparison (continued)
Description/ActionVxVMDescription/ActionLVM
Moves volumes off a disk.
Performs volume operations on a
subdisk. Moves the contents of
old subdisk onto the new
subdisks and replaces old sub
disk with the new subdisks for
any associations.
The vxdiskadm script presents a
menu of possible operations to the
user.
Option 7 in the vxdiskadm menu
moves volumes.
vxevac
vxsd mv
vxdiskadm
Moves allocated physical
extents from source to
destination within a volume
group.
pvmove
Removes the VxVM header
information and releases the disk
from VxVM control.
vxdiskunsetup
Removes the LVM header
information and releases the
disk from LVM control.
vxdiskunsetup.
Removes the VxVM header
information and releases the
disk from VxVM control.
pvremove
Creates a new disk group and/or
adds disks to a disk group.
vxdiskadd
vxdg init
Creates a volume group.
vgcreate
Displays the contents of a disk
group.
Displays information about all
objects or a subset of objects.
vxdg list
vxprint
Displays information on all
volume groups.
vgdisplay
Activates a shared disk group.
vxdg -g
diskgroup set
activation=
<mode>
Activates or deactivates one
or more volume groups.
vgchange
Adds a disk to the disk group.
Use option 1 in the vxdiskadm
menu to add disks to the disk
group.
vxdiskadd
vxdiskadd
Extends a volume group by
adding one or more disks to
it.
vgextend
Removes disks from a disk group.
Removes the specified disk access
record by disk access name.
Use option 3 in the vxdiskadm
menu removes disks.
vxdg rmdisk
vxdisk rm
vxdiskadm
Reduces a volume group by
removing one or more disks
from it.
vgreduce
Displays information about
volumes.
Displays complete or partial
information from records in
VxVM disk group configurations.
Use the list in the vxdiskadm
menu to display disk information.
vxinfo
vxprint
vxdiskadm
Scans all disks and looks for
logical volume groups.
vgscan
Starts resynchronization and
recovery of volumes.
vxrecover
Synchronizes mirrors that
are stale in one or more
logical volumes.
vgsync
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