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

57Command differences
Comparison of LVM and VxVM tasks
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
Task
type
Description Example
Example for a disk_group = veritasdg, medianame = disk01, vol_name -= veritasvol, plex name
= veritasvol-01, subdisk -= disk01-01, devicename = c0t0d0.