VERITAS Volume Manager 5.0 Migration Guide (September 2006)

52 Command differences
LVM and VxVM command equivalents
vgsync Synchronizes mirrors
that are stale in one or
more logical volumes.
vxrecover Starts resynchronization and
recovery of volumes.
vgremove Removes the definition
of a volume group from
the system.
vxdg deport
vxdiskadm
Deports a disk group from the
system.
Option 9 in the vxdiskadm menu
removes a disk group.
vgexport Removes a volume
group from the system.
vxdg deport
vxdiskadm
Deports a disk group from the
system.
Option 9 in the vxdiskadm menu
removes a disk group.
vgimport Adds a volume group to
the system by scanning
physical volumes which
have been exported
using vgexport.
vxdg import
vxdiskadm
Imports a disk group.
Option 8 in the vxdiskadm menu
imports a disk group.
No LVM command vxplex Operates on plex objects.
lvchange,
lvextend,
lvcreate,
lvreduce
Performs operations on
logical volumes.
vxvol Operates on volume objects.
No LVM command vxsd Operates on subdisk objects.
No LVM command vxmend Fixes simple misconfigurations.
Table 3-1 Command comparison
LVM Description/action VxVM Description/action