VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Migration Guide (September 2004)

Chapter 3
Command Differences
Tasks With No Direct LVM Equivalents
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Tasks With No Direct LVM Equivalents
The following table lists tasks which have no direct LVM equivalent. Most of these tasks can be performed
either with the VxVM GUI (VEA), or the command line interface. For more information, refer to the
VERITAS Volume Manager User’s Guide—VEA and the VERITAS Volume Manager Administrator’s Guide.
Table 3-3 Additional VxVM Tasks with no LVM equivalents
Task Description Example
Hot-relocation: in addition to using disks as hot
spares, the hot relocation facility can also use any
available free space in the disk group. If no disks
have been designated as spares when a failure of a
redundant object occurs, VxVM automatically
uses any available free space in the disk group in
which the failure occurs. If there is not enough
spare disk space, a combination of spare space and
free space is used. After a disk is repaired, you can
move all the hot-relocated subdisks back to the
original disk using the vxunreloc (1M) utility.
No action needed for hot relocation.
To move hot-relocated subdisks back to the original
disk:
vxunreloc disk_name
Rename a disk vxedit rename old_diskname new_diskname
Offline a disk. vxdisk offline disk_name
Alternatively, menu option 12 of vxdiskadm performs
this task.
Online a disk. vxdisk online disk_name
Select menu option 10 of vxdiskadm.
Evacuate a disk. vxevac -g disk_group medianame new_medianame
Replace a disk. Select menu option 4 of vxdiskadm.
Recover volumes on a disk. vxrecover -g disk_group vol_name medianame
Display a DMP node. vxdisk list meta_device
Rename a disk group. vxdg -tC -n newdg_name
Rename a volume. vxedit -v rename name newname
Update the /usr/fstab file with the new name.
Add a DRL log to a volume. vxassist addlog vol_name
Create a snapshot copy of a volume. vxassist snapshot vol_name temp_vol_name
Recover a volume. vxrecover -g disk_group volume medianame
vxmend fix clean plex_name
Repair a mirror vxplex att plex_name
Disable a mirror vxplex det plex_name