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

61Command differences
Comparison of LVM and VxVM tasks
VxVM Mirroring the VxVM root disk. vxrootmir [-v] [-t
tasktag ]
disk_access_name | disk_media_name
LVM Create a logical volume in LVM
volume group.
lvcreate -L vol_size
/dev/vol_grp
VxVM Create a volume of one of these
layout types:
A concatenated volume
A striped mirror volume
A RAID-5 volume
vxassist make vol_name length
vxassist make vol_name length
layout=mirror, stripe
vxassist make vol_name length
layout=raid5
LVM Display information about logical
volumes.
lvdisplay /dev/vol_grp/lvol_name
VxVM Display all volume information.
Display information about a
specific volume.
vxprint -vt
vxprint -ht vol_name
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.