Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Migration Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, May 2008

27Converting LVM to VxVM
Converting LVM volume groups to VxVM disk groups
VxVM volume names, see “step 11. Tailoring your VxVM configuration,” on
page 27.
As described earlier in “step 2. Analyzing an LVM volume group to see if
conversion is possible,” on page 21, the volume groups selected for conversion
are analyzed to ensure that conversion is possible. After a successful analysis
phase,
vxvmconvert will ask you to commit to the change or abort the
conversion. When you select to commit to conversion, the new VxVM metadata
is written.
Note: It is good practice to convert one volume group at a time to avoid errors
during conversion.
The details of the conversion process are shown in “Examples” on page 32.
8. Taking actions if conversion fails
Conversion can fail for any of the reasons detailed in the “Volume group
conversion limitations” section. Messages from
vxvmconvert will explain the
type of failure, and any actions you can take before retrying the conversion.
See “Conversion error messages” on page 75 for complete details of specific
error messages.
9. Implementing changes for new VxVM logical volume names
You must be sure that all applications and configuration files refer properly to
the new VxVM logical volumes. See “step 5. Planning for new VxVM logical
volume names on page 24” for details.
10. Restarting applications on the new VxVM volumes
Once the conversion to VxVM is complete, file systems can be mounted on the
new devices and applications can be restarted.
If you unmounted file systems before running vxvmconvert, you need to
remount them by the new volume names.
vxvmconvert will have updated
/etc/fstab with the new names. When you started vxvmconvert, you may have
left file systems mounted that are associated with the volumes you converted.
vxvmconvert remounts these with the new VxVM volume names.
11. Tailoring your VxVM configuration
vxvmconvert provides a default name for naming the newly formed VxVM disk
group during conversion only as an option. However, you will be given the
choice of choosing your own VxVM disk group name. By default,
vxvmconvert