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

53Command differences
LVM and VxVM command equivalents
pvmove Moves allocated
physical extents from
source to destination
within a volume
group.
vxevac
vxsd mv
vxdiskadm
Moves volumes off a disk.
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.
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.
vxdiskunsetu
p
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
vxprint
Displays the contents of a disk
group.
Displays information about all
objects or a subset of objects.
vgchange Activates or
deactivates one or
more volume groups.
vxdg -g
diskgroup set
activation=
mode
Activates a shared disk group.
vgextend Extends a volume
group by adding one
or more disks to it.
vxdiskadd
vxdiskadm
Adds a disk to the disk group.
Option 1 in the vxdiskadm
menu adds disks to the disk
group.
Table 3-1 Command comparison
LVM Description/action VxVM Description/action