Veritas Volume Manager 5.0.1 Migration Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009

Example: displaying the vxvmconvert menu ............................... 37
Example: listing disk information .............................................. 38
Example: listing LVM volume group information ......................... 38
Example: analyzing LVM volume groups .................................... 40
Example: converting LVM volume groups to VxVM disk
groups ........................................................................... 43
Example: converting LVM verion 2 volume groups to VxVM disk
groups ........................................................................... 48
Example: list, listvg, and vxprint outputs of an LVM volume group
before and after conversion ............................................... 50
Example: VxVM to LVM rollback ............................................... 52
General information regarding conversion speed ............................... 53
Non-interactive conversion of volume groups ................................... 54
Analyzing volume groups for conversion .................................... 55
Converting volume groups to disk groups ................................... 55
Converting disk groups back to volume groups ............................ 56
Chapter 3 Command differences ........................................................ 57
About LVM and VxVM command differences ..................................... 57
LVM and VxVM command equivalents ............................................. 57
Comparison of LVM and VxVM tasks ............................................... 62
Tasks with no direct LVM equivalents .............................................. 69
Existing features in LVM not supported in VxVM ............................... 71
Chapter 4 SMH and the VEA ................................................................ 73
About SMH and the VEA ................................................................ 73
Displaying disk devices in SMH ...................................................... 74
Displaying volume groups and disk groups in SMH ............................. 75
Displaying logical volumes in SMH .................................................. 76
Appendix A Conversion error messages ............................................... 79
About conversion error messages .................................................... 79
Glossary ............................................................................................................... 83
Index .................................................................................................................... 85
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