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

one or more VxVM disk groups. This adds the disks to a disk group

and replaces existing partitions with volumes. LVM-VxVM Volume

Group conversion may require a reboot for the changes to take

effect. For this release, only Non-root LVM Volume Groups are

allowed to be converted.

More than one Volume Group or pattern may be entered at the

prompt.

Here are some LVM Volume Group selection examples:

all: analyze all LVM Volume Groups (all except Root VG)

listvg: list all LVM Volume Groups

list: list all disk devices

vg_name:a single LVM Volume Group, named vg_name

<pattern>: for example vg08 vg09 vg05

Select Volume Groups to convert :

[<pattern-list>,all,list,listvg,q,?] listvg

LVM VOLUME GROUP INFORMATION

NAME VERSION TYPE PHYSICAL VOLUME

vg00 1.0 ROOT disk10

vg05 1.0 Non-Root disk11

vg03 2.0 Non-Root disk14 disk15

vg08 1.0 Non-Root disk12

Select Volume Groups to convert :

[<pattern-list>,all,list,listvg,q,?] vg08

vg08

Convert this Volume Group? [y,n,q,?] (default: y)

Name a new disk group [<group>,list,q,?] (default: dg08)

The following disk has been found in the vg08 volume group and

will be configured for conversion to a VxVM disk group.

disk12

A new disk group dg08 will be created and the disk device disk12

will be converted and added to the disk group with the disk name

dg0801.

The disk12 disk has been configured for conversion.

The first stage of the conversion operation has completed

successfully. If you commit to the changes hereafter, the system

will attempt to umount all of the associated file systems, stop

and export each Volume Group, and then attempt to complete the

conversion without having to reboot the system. If we are unable

to stop and export any of the Volume Groups, then the conversion

Converting LVM to VxVM

Examples