VERITAS Volume Manager 3.2 for HP-UX Release Notes

Removing VERITAS Volume Manager for HP-UX Products

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Removing VERITAS Volume Manager for HP-UX Products

Before removing the VERITAS Volume Manager for HP-UX software with swremove, you

must backup your data, move data out of VxVM control, and stop the VERITAS Volume

Manager. The procedures are described below.

CAUTION If you try to swremove the VERITAS Volume Manager for HP-UX software from

your system without doing the following preparatory steps, you will likely lose

data and leave your system in an uncertain state.

Preparing to Remove the VERITAS Volume Manager for HP-UX

Software

Before removing the VERITAS Volume Manager, consider which of the following steps apply

to your system, and complete them.

NOTE Because reorganizing your system in preparation for removing VERITAS

Volume Manager for HP-UX software is complicated, it is important to do a full

system backup before beginning.

• All file systems and other applications that use volume devices must be modified to use the

underlying disks or logical volumes, etc.

• Any file systems that have been created since the VERITAS Volume Manager was

installed must be made accessible through a disk or LVM logical volume.

• All data from any volumes that were created from multiple regions of storage, including

striped or spanned volumes, must be moved onto a single disk or appropriate LVM logical

volume.

• Any mirror copies of file systems and other databases should be removed so that only one

copy remains, to free up as much space as possible.

• If any volume contains more than one plex (mirror), all but one plex should be removed.

To display a list of all volumes, use the command:

vxprint -Ath

To remove a plex, use the command: