VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide

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• move—moves a self-contained set of VxVM objects between imported
disk groups. This operation fails if it would remove all the disks from
the source disk group. Volume states are preserved across the move.
The move operation is illustrated in Figure 4-1, “Disk Group Move
Operation,” below.
Figure 4-1 Disk Group Move Operation
• split—removes a self-contained set of VxVM objects from an
imported disk group, and moves them to a newly created target disk
group. This operation fails if it would remove all the disks from the
source disk group, or if an imported disk group exists with the same
name as the target disk group. An existing deported disk group is
Source Disk Group Target Disk Group
move
Source Disk Group Target Disk Group
After
move