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

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Command comparison (continued)
Description/actionVxVMDescription/actionLVM
Displays information about volumes.
Displays complete or partial
information from records in VxVM disk
group configurations.
Option list in the vxdiskadm menu
displays disk information.
vxinfo
vxprint
vxdiskadm
Scans all disks and looks for logical
volume groups.
vgscan
Starts resynchronization and recovery
of volumes.
vxrecoverSynchronizes mirrors that are stale in
one or more logical volumes.
vgsync
Deports a disk group from the system.
Option 9 in the vxdiskadm menu
removes a disk group.
vxdg deport
vxdiskadm
Removes the definition of a volume
group from the system.
vgremove
Deports a disk group from the system.
Option 9 in the vxdiskadm menu
removes a disk group.
vxdg deport
vxdiskadm
Removes a volume group from the
system.
vgexport
Imports a disk group.
Option 8 in the vxdiskadm menu
imports a disk group.
vxdg import
vxdiskadm
Adds a volume group to the system by
scanning physical volumes which have
been exported using vgexport.
vgimport
Operates on plex objects.vxplexNo LVM command
Operates on volume objects.vxvolPerforms operations on logical
volumes.
lvchange,
lvextend,
lvcreate,
lvreduce
Operates on subdisk objects.vxsdNo LVM command
Fixes simple misconfigurations.vxmendNo LVM command
Comparison of LVM and VxVM tasks
This section contains a list of tasks which you can perform using LVM, and near
equivalent tasks which you can perform using Veritas Volume Manager. You can
perform the LVM tasks by using SMH or the command line interface. Similarly,
you can choose to perform VxVM tasks by using the Veritas Enterprise
Administrator (VEA) or the command line interface. This document focuses on
the command line interface.
439Offline data migration
Command differences