VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Migration Guide

Command Differences
Comparison of LVM and VxVM Tasks
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VxVM Bring a disk under Volume
Manager control.
vxdiskadd device_name
Option 1 in the vxdiskadm menu adds a
disk and initializes it.
LVM Create a volume group vgcreate /dev/ vol_grp /dev/dsk/ disk_name
VxVM Create a disk group. vxdg init disk_group disk_name
Option 1 in the vxdiskadm menu performs
this task.
LVM Add a new disk to the existing
volume group.
vgextend /dev/ vol_grp
/dev/rdsk/ disk_name
VxVM Add a disk to an existing disk
group.
vxdg -g disk_group adddisk
disk= devicename
Table 3-2 LVM and VxVM Task Comparison (Continued)
Task
Type
Description Example