Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 Advanced Features Administrator"s Guide (5900-1503, April 2011)

Restoring the LVM volume group configuration ......................... 414
Examples ............................................................................ 417
General information regarding conversion speed ....................... 431
Non-interactive conversion of volume groups ............................ 432
Command differences ................................................................. 434
About LVM and VxVM command differences ............................. 434
LVM and VxVM command equivalents ..................................... 435
Comparison of LVM and VxVM tasks ........................................ 439
Tasks with no direct LVM equivalents ...................................... 447
Existing features in LVM not supported in VxVM ....................... 448
SMH and the VEA ....................................................................... 449
About SMH and the VEA ........................................................ 449
Displaying disk devices in SMH ............................................... 450
Displaying volume groups and disk groups in SMH ..................... 451
Displaying logical volumes in SMH .......................................... 452
Chapter 28 Migrating data between platforms ................................ 455
Overview of CDS ......................................................................... 455
Shared data across platforms .................................................. 456
Disk drive sector size ............................................................ 457
Block size issues ................................................................... 457
Operating system data ........................................................... 457
CDS disk format and disk groups ................................................... 457
CDS disk access and format .................................................... 458
Non-CDS disk groups ............................................................ 461
Disk group alignment ............................................................ 461
Setting up your system ................................................................ 463
Creating CDS disks from uninitialized disks .............................. 464
Creating CDS disks from initialized VxVM disks ......................... 465
Creating CDS disk groups ...................................................... 466
Converting non-CDS disks to CDS disks .................................... 467
Converting a non-CDS disk group to a CDS disk group ................. 468
Verifying licensing ............................................................... 470
Defaults files ....................................................................... 471
Maintaining your system ............................................................. 472
Disk tasks ........................................................................... 473
Disk group tasks ................................................................... 475
Displaying information ......................................................... 481
Default activation mode of shared disk groups ........................... 484
Additional considerations when importing CDS disk groups ......... 484
File system considerations ........................................................... 485
Considerations about data in the file system .............................. 486
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