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VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Migration Guide: for HP-UX 11i and HP-UX 11i Version 1.5
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HP Part Number: B7961-90017

Edition: June, 2001

Published: E0601

© Copyright 1983-2000 Hewlett-Packard Company. All rights reserved.

Table of Contents

Preface
Audience
Scope
Organization
Related Documents
Conventions
1 VxVM and LVM
Introducing the VERITAS Volume Manager
Notable Features of VxVM
VxVM and LVM—Conceptual Comparison
Coexistence of VxVM and LVM Disks
2 Converting LVM to VxVM
Converting Unused LVM Physical Volumes to VxVM Disks
Removing LVM Disk Information
Initializing Disks for VxVM Use
Converting LVM Volume Groups to VxVM Disk Groups
Volume Group Conversion Limitations
Conversion Process Summary
Conversion Steps Explained
Restoring the LVM Volume Group Configuration
Rollback to LVM Using vxvmconvert
Full LVM Restoration
Examples
Example: displaying the vxvmconvert menu
Example: listing disk information
Example: listing LVM volume group information
Example: analyzing LVM volume groups
Example: converting LVM volume groups to VxVM disk groups
Example: list, listvg, and vxprint outputs of an LVM volume group before and after conversion
Example: VxVM to LVM rollback
General Information Regarding Conversion Speed
3 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
4 SAM and Storage Administrator
Launching Storage Administrator from SAM
Listing Disk Devices in SAM
Listing Volume Groups and Disk Groups in SAM
Listing Logical Volumes in SAM
A Conversion Error Messages
Glossary
Index

List of Figures

4-1 Listing LVM and VxVM Disk Devices with SAM
4-2 Listing LVM Volume Groups and VxVM Disk Groups with SAM
4-3 Listing LVM Logical Volumes and VxVM Volumes with SAM

List of Tables

1-1 A Conceptual comparison of LVM and VxVM
3-1 Command Comparison
3-2 LVM and VxVM Task Comparison
3-3 Additional VxVM Tasks with no LVM equivalents
3-4 LVM features and VxVM equivalents
   


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