VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Migration Guide

SAM and Storage Administrator
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4 SAM and Storage Administrator
This chapter describes the VERITAS Volume Manager GUI, the Storage
Administrator and its relationship with the LVM GUI, and the System
Administration Manager (SAM). This chapter also describes how to
launch the Storage Administrator from SAM.
The following topics are discussed in this chapter:
• “Launching Storage Administrator from SAM”
• “Listing Disk Devices in SAM”
• “Listing Volume Groups and Disk Groups in SAM”
• “Listing Logical Volumes in SAM”
SAM and Storage Administrator coexist as independent entities. The
Storage Administrator recognizes and labels LVM volumes and disks,
but does not manage them. Similarly, SAM recognizes and labels VxVM
disks, but does not manage them. To manage VxVM disks graphically,
you must use the VxVM Storage Administrator.
For information about the Storage Administrator, see the VERITAS
Volume Manager 3.1 Storage Administrator Administrator’s Guide.
You can launch the Storage Administrator in one of two ways:
• from SAM
• from the command line, with $VMSAHOME/bin/vmsa
NOTE It is recommended that you launch Storage Administrator from SAM
rather than from the command line. If you run Storage Administrator
from the command line, you must explicitly refresh SAM (with
Options->Refresh) to see VxVM changes reflected in SAM screens.
Only privileged users can run the Storage Administrator.