VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Migration Guide (August 2002)

Chapter 1, VxVM and LVM
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Both LVM and VxVM utilities are aware of the other volume manager, and will not
overwrite disksthat are being managed by the other volumemanager. Theadministrative
utilities (SAM and vmsa) recognize and identify all disks on the system (see Chapter ,
SAM and the VEA, for details).
The vxvmconvert command isprovidedto enable LVM disksto be convertedto a VxVM
diskformat withoutlosing anydata. Formoreinformation, see Chapter ,Converting LVM
to VxVM.