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

54 Command differences
LVM and VxVM command equivalents
vgreduce Reduces a volume
group by removing
one or more disks
from it.
vxdg rmdisk
vxdisk rm
vxdiskadm
Removes disks from a disk
group.
Removes the specified disk
access record by disk access
name.
Option 3 in the vxdiskadm
menu removes disks.
vgscan Scans all disks and
looks for logical
volume groups.
vxinfo
vxprint
vxdiskadm
Displays information about
volumes.
Displays complete or partial
information from records in
VxVM disk group
configurations.
Option list in the vxdiskadm
menu displays disk information.
vgsync Synchronizes
mirrors that are stale
in one or more logical
volumes.
vxrecover Starts resynchronization and
recovery of volumes.
vgremove Removes the
definition of a
volume group from
the system.
vxdg deport
vxdiskadm
Deports a disk group from the
system.
Option 9 in the vxdiskadm
menu removes a disk group.
vgexport Removes a volume
group from the
system.
vxdg deport
vxdiskadm
Deports a disk group from the
system.
Option 9 in the vxdiskadm
menu removes a disk group.
vgimport Adds a volume group
to the system by
scanning physical
volumes which have
been exported using
vgexport.
vxdg import
vxdiskadm
Imports a disk group.
Option 8 in the vxdiskadm
menu imports a disk group.
Table 3-1 Command comparison
LVM Description/action VxVM Description/action