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

Table 27-2
Command comparison (continued)
Description/actionVxVMDescription/actionLVM
The vxrecover command performs
resynchronize operations for the
volumes, or for volumes residing on
the named disks (medianame or the
VxVM name for the disk).
Example:
vxrecover vol_name
media_name
vxrecover
vxvol start
Synchronizes mirrors that are stale in
one or more logical volumes.
lvsync
Brings a disk under VxVM control.
Example:
vxdisksetup
c0t3d0
Option 1 in the vxdiskadm menu adds
or initializes one or more disks.
vxdisksetupMakes a disk an LVM disk.pvcreate
Lists information about VxVM disks.
Example:
vxdisk list
disk_name
vxdisk listDisplays information about physical
volumes in a volume group.
pvdisplay
The vxdisk utility performs basic
administrative operations on VxVM
disks. Operations include initializing
and replacing disks, as well as taking
care of some book-keeping necessary
for the disk model presented by the
Volume Manager.
vxdisk
vxdisk set
vxedit
Sets physical volume characteristics
to allow/deny allocation of additional
physical extents from this disk.
pvchange
437Offline data migration
Command differences