VERITAS Volume Manager 5.0 Migration Guide (September 2006)

Chapter
4
SAM and the VEA
This chapter describes the Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) graphical user
interface (GUI), and its relationship with the LVM GUI, and the System Administration
Manager (SAM).
The following topics are discussed in this chapter:
■ Listing disk devices in SAM
■ Listing volume groups and disk groups in SAM
■ Listing logical volumes in SAM
SAM and the VEA coexist as independent entities. The VEA recognizes and labels LVM
volumes and disks, but does not manage them. Similarly, SAM recognizes and labels
VxVM disks, but does not manage them. To manage VxVM disks graphically, you must
use the VEA.
Note: If you run the VEA client from the command line, you must explicitly refresh SAM
(with Options->Refresh) to see VxVM changes reflected in SAM screens.
Only privileged users can run the VEA client.
At present, it is not possible to launch the VEA client from SAM. This will be corrected in
a future SAM patch.
For information about the VEA, see the Veritas Enterprise Administrator User’s Guide
and the online help that is available from within the VEA.