Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Administrator's Guide (September 2006)

186 Creating and administering disk groups
Reorganizing the contents of disk groups
■ 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 4-4.
Figure 4-4 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
destroyed if it has the same name as the target disk group (as is the case for the
vxdg
init command). The split operation is illustrated in Figure 4-5.
Source disk group Target disk group
move
Source disk group Target disk group
After
move