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SAM and the VEA

This chapter describes the VERITAS Volume Manager GUI, the VERITAS Enterprise

Administrator™ (VEA™), and its relationship with the LVM GUI, and the System

Administration Manager (SAM).

The following topics are discussed in this chapter:

◆ Listing Disk Devices in SAM

◆ Listing Volume Groups and Disk Groups in SAM

◆ Listing Logical Volumes in SAM

SAM and the VEA coexist as independent entities. The VEA 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 VEA.

For information about the VEA, see the VERITAS Volume Manager User’s Guide - VEA.

Note If you run the VEA client 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 VEA client.

At present, it is not possible to launch the VEA client from SAM. This will be

corrected in a future SAM patch.

For more information on the VERITAS Enterprise Administrator (VEA) and VERITAS

Volume Manager, referto the VERITAS Volume Manager documentation package (seethe

Preface).