VERITAS Volume Manager 5.0 Migration Guide (September 2006)

54 Command differences
Comparison of LVM and VxVM tasks
VxVM Create a disk group. vxdg init disk_group disk_name
Option 1 in the vxdiskadm menu performs
this task.
LVM Add a new disk to the existing volume
group.
vgextend /dev/vol_grp /dev/rdsk/
disk_name
VxVM Add a disk to an existing disk group. vxdg -g disk_group adddisk
disk=devicename
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.