Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Release Notes (5900-0593, March 2010)

Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Release Notes
Coexistence with HP Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
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Coexistence with HP Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
The Veritas Volume Manager for HP-UX coexists with HP Logical Volume Manager (LVM).
Both LVM and Base-VXVM utilities are aware of the other volume manager, and will not
overwrite disks that are being managed by the other volume manager. As mentioned above,
the administrative utilities (SAM and VEA) recognize and identify all disks on the system.
Although this release is targeted at new customer installations, a conversion utility,
vxvmconvert, is provided for converting LVM volume groups to VxVM volume groups. Refer
to the Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Migration Guide for details on using vxvmconvert.
System Requirements
Supported Platforms
The Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 is supported on all servers which support HP-UX 11i Version
2. See the section titled Supported Servers in Chapter 4, Hardware Specific Information in the
HP-UX 11i Version 2 System Release Notes available at
http://docs.hp.com/en/oshpux11iv2.html.
Software Requirements
•OS Version:
HP-UX 11i Version 2 September 2006 or later.
Features no Longer Supported
• In Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0, snapshot plexes created by the vxassist command are
not supported. A combination of snapshot plexes created by vxassist and vxsnap is also
not supported in this release.
• In VxFS and VxVM 5.0, the following disk arrays are not supported: