VERITAS Volume Manager 5.0 Migration Guide (September 2006)

62 Command differences
Comparison of LVM and VxVM tasks
VxVM Resynchronize operations for the
named volumes, or for volumes
residing on the named disks.
If no medianame or volume operands
are specified, then the operation applies
to all volumes.
vxrecover -s vol_name
LVM Start a volume. lvchange -a y /dev/vol_grp/
lvol_name
VxVM Start a volume. vxrecover -s vol_name
vxvol start vol_name
LVM Stop a volume. lvchange -a n /dev/vol_grp/
lvol_name
VxVM Stop a volume. vxvol stop vol_name
LVM Make a disk available as a hot spare. pvchange -z y /dev/dsk/disk_name
VxVM Make a disk available as a hot spare. vxedit set spare=on disk_name
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.