VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Migration Guide
VxVM and LVM
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1 VxVM and LVM
This chapter provides an overview of the VERITAS Volume Manager
(also referred to as VxVM) and its features. A brief description of the
benefits of migrating from the HP-UX Logical Volume Manager (LVM) to
VxVM, and the coexistence of VxVM disks with LVM disks is also given.
The following topics are discussed in this chapter:
• “Introducing the VERITAS Volume Manager”
• “VxVM and LVM—Conceptual Comparison”
• “Coexistence of VxVM and LVM Disks”