VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Migration Guide (September 2004)

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4 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” on page 54
• “Listing Volume Groups and Disk Groups in SAM” on page 55
• “Listing Logical Volumes in SAM” on page 56
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,
refer to the VERITAS Volume Manager documentation package (see the “Preface” on page iii).