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

Table 27-2
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.
vxdiskunsetupRemoves the LVM header information
and releases the disk from LVM
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.
Option 1 in the vxdiskadm menu adds
disks to the disk group.
vxdiskadd
vxdiskadm
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.
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
Offline data migration
Command differences
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