VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Migration Guide

Converting LVM to VxVM
Examples
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Example of a failed conversion
# vxvmconvert
Volume Manager Support Operations
Menu: VolumeManager/LVM_Conversion
1Analyze LVM Volume Groups for Conversion
2Convert LVM Volume Groups to VxVM
3Roll back from VxVM to LVM
listList disk information
listvgList LVM Volume Group information
?Display help about menu
??Display help about the menuing system
qExit from menus
Select an operation to perform: 2
Convert one or more LVM Volume Groups
Menu: VolumeManager/LVM_Conversion/Convert_LVM_VGs
Use this operation to convert one or more LVM Volume
Groups to one
or more VxVM disk groups. This adds the disks to a disk
group
and replaces existing partitions with volumes. LVM-VxVM
Volume
Group conversion may require a reboot for the changes to
take
effect. For this release, only Non-root LVM Volume
Groups are
allowed
to be converted.
More than one Volume Group or pattern may be entered at
the prompt.
Here are some LVM Volume Group selection examples:
all:analyze all LVM Volume Groups (all except Root VG)
listvg:list all LVM Volume Groups
list:list all disk devices
vg_name:a single LVM Volume Group, named vg_name
<pattern>:for example vg08 vg09 vg05
Select Volume Groups to convert :
[<pattern-list>,all,list,listvg,q,?] listvg
LVM VOLUME GROUP INFORMATION
NAME TYPE PHYSICAL VOLUME
vg00 ROOT c4t6d0