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

Offline data migration

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About migrating Logical Volume Manager to VxVM

■ About VxVM and LVM

■ Converting LVM to VxVM

■ Command differences

■ SMH and the VEA

About migrating Logical Volume Manager to VxVM

This section provides an overview of migrating Logical Volume Manager to VxVM.

There are benefits of migrating from the HP-UX Logical Volume Manager (LVM)

to VxVM.

See “About LVM to VxVM conversion” on page 400.

About VxVM and LVM

This section provides an overview of Veritas Volume Manager by Symantec (also

referred to as VxVM) and its features. It includes a brief description of the benefits

of migrating from the HP-UX Logical Volume Manager (LVM) to VxVM. The section

also describes the coexistence of VxVM disks with LVM disks.

Introducing Veritas Volume Manager

Veritas Volume Manager is an alternative Volume Management product for HP-UX

that includes mirroring features. It offers many capabilities that are not available

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