VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Migration Guide

Command Differences
LVM and VxVM Command Equivalents
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vgdisplay Displays information
on all volume groups.
vxdg list
vxprint
Displays the contents of a
disk group.
Displays information about
all objects or a subset of
objects.
vgchange Activates or
deactivates one or
more volume groups.
vxdg -g
diskgroup set
activation=
mode
Activates a shared disk
group.
vgextend Extends a volume
group by adding one
or more disks to it.
vxdiskadd
vxdiskadm
Adds a disk to the disk group.
Option 1 in the vxdiskadm
menu adds disks to the disk
group.
vgreduce Reduces a volume
groupbyremovingone
or more disks from it.
vxdg rmdisk
vxdisk rm
vxdiskadm
Removes disks from a disk
group.
Removes the specified disk
access record by disk access
name.
Option 3 in the vxdiskadm
menu removes disks.
vgscan Scans all disks and
looks for logical
volume groups.
vxinfo
vxprint
vxdiskadm
Displays information about
volumes.
Displays complete or partial
information from records in
VxVM disk group
configurations.
Optionlist in thevxdiskadm
menu displays disk
information.
vgsync Synchronizes mirrors
that are stale in one or
more logical volumes.
vxrecover Starts resynchronization and
recovery of volumes.
Table 3-1Command Comparison
LVM Description/Action VxVM Description/Action