VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Migration Guide (September 2004)

Chapter 1
VxVM and LVM
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1 VxVM and LVM
This chapter provides an overview of the VERITAS Volume Manager (also referred to as VxVM) and its
features. A brief description of the benefits of migrating from the HP-UX Logical Volume Manager (LVM) to
VxVM, and the coexistence of VxVM disks with LVM disks is also given.
The following topics are discussed in this chapter:
• “Introducing the VERITAS Volume Manager” on page 2
• “VxVM and LVM—Conceptual Comparison” on page 4
• “Coexistence of VxVM and LVM Disks” on page 7