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

Note: Additional information is available on LVM and VxVM commands.
See HP-UX Managing Systems and Workgroups
See LVM manual pages in HP-UX Reference Volumes 2, 3, and 5.
See the Veritas Volume Manager documentation.
VxVM and LVM—conceptual comparison
The following section compares the terminology that is used in LVM and VxVM
at a conceptual level. For more information, refer to the glossary of this Guide for
precise and detailed definitions of these terms.
Table 1-1
A conceptual comparison of LVM and VxVM
DescriptionVxVM termLVM term
Both LVM and VxVM enable online
disk storage management. They both
build virtual devices, called volumes,
on physical disks. Volumes are not
limited by the underlying physical
disks, and can include other virtual
objects such as mirrors. Volumes are
accessed through the HP-UX file
system, a database, or other
applications in the same manner as
physical disks would be accessed.
VxVMLVM
VxVM and LVM
VxVM and LVM—conceptual comparison
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