VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Migration Guide

Command Differences
LVM and VxVM Command Equivalents
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pvmove Moves allocated physical
extents from source to
destination within a
volume group.
vxevac Moves volumes off a
disk.
vxsd mv Performs volume
operations on a subdisk.
Moves the contents of
old subdisk onto the new
subdisks and replaces
old sub disk with the
new subdisks for any
associations.
vxdiskadm The vxdiskadm script
presents a menu of
possible operations to
the user.
Option 7 in the
vxdiskadm menu moves
volumes.
pvremove Removes the LVM
header information and
releases the disk from
LVM control.
vxdiskunse
tup
Removes the VxVM
header information and
releases the disk from
VxVM control.
vgcreate Creates a volume group. vxdiskadd
vxdg init
Creates a new disk
group and/or adds disks
to a disk group.
vgdisplay Displays information on
all volume groups.
vxdg list Displays the contents of
a disk group.
vxprint Displays information
about all objects or a
subset of objects.
Table 3-1 Command Comparison (Continued)
LVM Description/Action VxVM Description/Action