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

Command differences

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About LVM and VxVM command differences

■ LVM and VxVM command equivalents

■ Comparison of LVM and VxVM tasks

■ Tasks with no direct LVM equivalents

■ Existing features in LVM not supported in VxVM

About LVM and VxVM command differences

This chapter describes the differences between LVM and VxVM commands, and

tasks. It includes a task comparison chart which lists some of the tasks performed

using LVM with a near equivalent task performed using VxVM. It also provides a

list of VxVM tasks which are not available with LVM, and the LVM features

currently not supported in VxVM.

Additional information is available on LVM and VxVM commands.

See HP-UX Managing Systems and Workgroups.

See theLVM manual pages in HP-UX Reference Volumes 2, 3, and 5.

See the Veritas Volume Manager documentation.

LVM and VxVM command equivalents

The table below lists the LVM commands and a near equivalent command to use

in VxVM. For more information, refer to the Task Comparison chart. Additional

information is available on VxVM commands.

Refer to the Veritas Volume Manager documentation package.

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