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

62 Command differences
Comparison of LVM and VxVM tasks
LVM Display information about volume
groups.
vgdisplay -v /dev/vol_grp
VxVM Display disk group information.
Display information about a
specific disk group.
vxdisk list
vxprint -g disk_group
vxdg list
vxdisk list disk_group
LVM Display information about physical
volumes.
pvdisplay /dev/dsk/disk_name
VxVM Display information about Volume
Manager volumes.
vxinfo or vxprint
LVM Remove a logical volume. lvremove /dev/vol_grp
/ lvol_name
VxVM Remove a volume. vxedit rm vol_name
LVM Remove disks from a volume group
or reduce the number of disks in
the volume group.
vgreduce /dev/vol_grp /dev/dsk/
disk_name
VxVM Remove disks from a disk group. vxdisk rm disk_group
vxdg rmdisk disk_name
vxdg -g group_name rmdisk
disk_name
LVM Remove an entire volume group.
Before attempting to remove the
volume group, you must remove
the logical volumes using
lvremove, and all physical
volumes except the last one using
vgreduce.
vgremove /dev/vol_grp
VxVM Deport a disk group. You must
unmount and stop any volumes in
the disk group first.
vxdg deport disk_group
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.