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

Table 27-3
LVM and VxVM task comparisons (continued)
ExampleDescriptionTask type
vxprint -vt
vxprint -ht vol_name
Display all volume information.
Display information about a specific volume.
VxVM
vgdisplay -v /dev/vol_grpDisplay information about volume groups.LVM
vxdisk list
vxprint -g disk_group
vxdg list
vxdisk list disk_group
Display disk group information.
Display information about a specific disk group.
VxVM
pvdisplay /dev/dsk/disk_nameDisplay information about physical volumes.LVM
vxinfo or vxprintDisplay information about Volume Manager
volumes.
VxVM
lvremove /dev/vol_grp/lvol_nameRemove a logical volume.LVM
vxedit rm vol_nameRemove a volume.VxVM
vgreduce /dev/vol_grp
/dev/dsk/disk_name
Remove disks from a volume group or reduce
the number of disks in the volume group.
LVM
vxdisk rm disk_group
vxdg rmdisk disk_name
vxdg -g group_name rmdisk disk_name
Remove disks from a disk group.VxVM
vgremove /dev/vol_grpRemove an entire volume group.
Before attempting to remove the volume group,
you must remove the logical volumes using
lvremove, and all physical volumes except the
last one using vgreduce.
LVM
vxdg deport disk_groupDeport a disk group. You must unmount and
stop any volumes in the disk group first.
VxVM
Offline data migration
Command differences
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