HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Overview HP-UX 11i v3 (B3921-90011, September 2010)

NOTE: VERITAS Volume Manager is available in several versions as of the Release of HP-UX
11i version 3. Values and features shown are for VxVM Version 4.1. Consult the VERITAS Volume
Manager Release Notes of the appropriate version for that version’s specifications.
The VERITAS Volume Manager has two licensing levels, base and full. Unless stated otherwise,
the features listed in the previous table are for the base level license. See the VERITAS Volume
Manager documentation for the additional features supported with the full license level.
Volume Groups
When using a volume manager, the first step is to group physical drives into pools of disk space
called:
• disk groups, if you are using the VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM)
or
• volume groups, if you are using the Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
NOTE: The individual disks in the disk/volume groups are called:
• VM disks, if you are using the VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM).
or
• physical volumes, if you are using the Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
46 Major Components of HP-UX