VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Migration Guide

Converting LVM to VxVM
Examples
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The Volume Manager is now reconfiguring (partition phase)...
Volume Manager: Initializing c4t8d0 as a converted LVM disk.
The system reconfiguration will now be done without rebooting.
The Volume Manager is now reconfiguring (initialization phase)...
Volume Manager: Adding dg0801 (c4t8d0) as a converted LVM disk.
Adding volumes for c4t8d0...
Starting new volumes...
Updating /etc/fstab...
The system will now Convert the LVM Volume Groups over to VxVM disk
groups.
Convert other LVM Volume Groups? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)
Example of a failed conversion
# vxvmconvert
Volume Manager Support Operations
Menu: VolumeManager/LVM_Conversion
1 Analyze LVM Volume Groups for Conversion
2 Convert LVM Volume Groups to VxVM
3 Roll back from VxVM to LVM
list List disk information
listvgList LVM Volume Group information
? Display help about menu
?? Display help about the menuing system
q Exit from menus
Select an operation to perform: 2
Convert one or more LVM Volume Groups
Menu: VolumeManager/LVM_Conversion/Convert_LVM_VGs