VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Migration Guide

VxVM and LVM
Coexistence of VxVM and LVM Disks
Chapter 18
Both LVM and VxVM utilities are aware of the other volume manager, and will not overwrite
disks that are being managed by the other volume manager. The administrative utilities
(SAM and vmsa) recognize and identify all disks on the system (see Chapter 4, “SAM and the
VEA,” on page 71, for details).
The vxvmconvert command is provided to enable LVM disks to be converted to a VxVM disk
format without losing any data. For more information, see Chapter 2, “Converting LVM to
VxVM,” on page 9.