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
Displays the contents of a disk group.
Displays information about all objects
or a subset of objects.
vxdg list
vxprint
Displays information on all volume
groups.
vgdisplay
Activates a shared disk group.vxdg -g
diskgroup set
activation=mode
Activates or deactivates one or more
volume groups.
vgchange
Adds a disk to the disk group.
Option 1 in the vxdiskadm menu adds
disks to the disk group.
vxdiskadd
vxdiskadm
Extends a volume group by adding one
or more disks to it.
vgextend
Removes disks from a disk group.
Removes the specified disk access
record by disk access name.
Option 3 in the vxdiskadm menu
removes disks.
vxdg rmdisk
vxdisk rm
vxdiskadm
Reduces a volume group by removing
one or more disks from it.
vgreduce
Displays information about volumes.
Displays complete or partial
information from records in VxVM disk
group configurations.
Option list in the vxdiskadm menu
displays disk information.
vxinfo
vxprint
vxdiskadm
Scans all disks and looks for logical
volume groups.
vgscan
Starts resynchronization and recovery
of volumes.
vxrecoverSynchronizes mirrors that are stale in
one or more logical volumes.
vgsync
Deports a disk group from the system.
Option 9 in the vxdiskadm menu
removes a disk group.
vxdg deport
vxdiskadm
Removes the definition of a volume
group from the system.
vgremove
Deports a disk group from the system.
Option 9 in the vxdiskadm menu
removes a disk group.
vxdg deport
vxdiskadm
Removes a volume group from the
system.
vgexport
Imports a disk group.
Option 8 in the vxdiskadm menu
imports a disk group.
vxdg import
vxdiskadm
Adds a volume group to the system by
scanning physical volumes which have
been exported using vgexport.
vgimport
Operates on plex objects.vxplexNo LVM command
61Command differences
LVM and VxVM command equivalents