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

Table 3-1
Command comparison (continued)
Description/actionVxVMDescription/actionLVM
Brings a disk under VxVM control.
Example:
vxdisksetup
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Option 1 in the vxdiskadm menu adds
or initializes one or more disks.
vxdisksetupMakes a disk an LVM disk.pvcreate
Lists information about VxVM disks.
Example:
vxdisk list
disk_name
vxdisk listDisplays information about physical
volumes in a volume group.
pvdisplay
The vxdisk utility performs basic
administrative operations on VxVM
disks. Operations include initializing
and replacing disks, as well as taking
care of some book-keeping necessary
for the disk model presented by the
Volume Manager.
vxdisk
vxdisk set
vxedit
Sets physical volume characteristics
to allow/deny allocation of additional
physical extents from this disk.
pvchange
Moves volumes off a disk.
Performs volume operations on a
subdisk. Moves the contents of old
subdisk onto the new subdisks and
replaces old sub disk with the new
subdisks for any associations.
The vxdiskadm script presents a
menu of possible operations to the
user.
Option 7 in the vxdiskadm menu
moves volumes.
vxevac
vxsd mv
vxdiskadm
Moves allocated physical extents from
source to destination within a volume
group.
pvmove
Removes the VxVM header information
and releases the disk from VxVM
control.
vxdiskunsetupRemoves the LVM header information
and releases the disk from LVM
control.
pvremove
Creates a new disk group and/or adds
disks to a disk group.
vxdiskadd
vxdg init
Creates a volume group.vgcreate
Command differences
LVM and VxVM command equivalents
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