VERITAS Volume Manager 5.0 Migration Guide (September 2006)

50 Command differences
LVM and VxVM command equivalents
lvsync Synchronizes mirrors
that are stale in one or
more logical volumes.
vxrecover
vxvol start
The vxrecover command
performs resynchronize operations
for the volumes, or for volumes
residing on the named disks
(medianame or the VxVM name for
the disk).
Example: vxrecover vol_name
media_name
pvcreate Makes a disk an LVM
disk.
vxdisksetup Brings a disk under VxVM control.
Example: vxdisksetup
c0t3d0
Option 1 in the vxdiskadm menu
adds or initializes one or more disks.
pvdisplay Displays information
about physical volumes
in a volume group.
vxdisk list Lists information about VxVM
disks.
Example: vxdisk list
disk_name
pvchange Sets physical volume
characteristics to allow/
deny allocation of
additional physical
extents from this disk.
vxdisk
vxdisk set
vxedit
The vxdisk utility performs basic
administrative operations on VxVM
disks. Operations include
initializing and replacing disks, as
well as taking care of some book-
keeping necessary for the disk
model presented by the Volume
Manager.
pvmove Moves allocated
physical extents from
source to destination
within a volume group.
vxevac
vxsd mv
vxdiskadm
Moves volumes off a disk.
Performs volume operations on a
subdisk. Moves the contents of old
subdisk onto the new subdisks and
replaces old sub disk with the new
subdisks for any associations.
The vxdiskadm script presents a
menu of possible operations to the
user.
Option 7 in the vxdiskadm menu
moves volumes.
Table 3-1 Command comparison
LVM Description/action VxVM Description/action