VERITAS Volume Manager 5.0 Migration Guide (September 2006)

33Converting LVM to VxVM
Examples
LV Name /dev/vg08/lvol2
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 500
Current LE 125
Allocated PE 125
Used PV 1
--- Physical volumes ---
PV Name /dev/dsk/c0t8d0
PV Status available
Total PE 250
Free PE 0
List another LVM Volume Group? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)
Select an operation to perform:
Note: The volume groups you want to convert must not be a root volume group or have
bootable volumes in the group.
Example: analyzing LVM volume groups
To analyze one or more LVM volume groups:
# vxvmconvert
Volume Manager Support Operations
Menu: VolumeManager/LVM_Conversion
1 Analyze LVM Volume Groups for Conversion
2 Convert LVM Volume Groups to VxVM
3 Roll back from VxVM to LVM
list List disk information
listvg List LVM Volume Group information
? Display help about menu
?? Display help about the menuing system
q Exit from menus
Select an operation to perform: 1
Analyze one or more LVM Volume Groups
Menu: Volume Manager/LVM_Conversion/Analyze_LVM_VGs
Use this operation to analyze one or more LVM volume groups for
possible conversion using the VxVM Volume Manager. This
operation checks for problems that would prevent the conversion
from completing successfully. It calculates the space required
to add the volume groups disks to a Volume Manager disk group,
and to replace any existing partitions and volumes with Volume
Manager volumes, plexes, and sub-disks.
More than one volume group or pattern may be entered at the
prompt.
Here are some LVM volume group selection examples:
all: analyze all LVM Volume Groups (all except Root VG)