Veritas Storage Foundation™ for Oracle 5.0.1 Administrator's Guide

Converting existing

database configurations to

VxFS

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About converting LVM volume groups to VxVM disk groups

■ Converting native file systems to VxFS for Oracle Disk Manager

■ Converting native file systems to VxFS with Quick I/O

■ Upgrading from earlier VxFS version layouts

■ Converting from raw devices

About converting LVM volume groups to VxVM disk

groups

If you are currently using VxFS file systems for your database and the file systems

are mounted on Logical Volume Manager (LVM) volumes, you can convert these

LVM volume groups to VxVM disk groups in place. Veritas Volume Manager

provides an interactive, menu-driven utility, vxvmconvert that performs the

conversion.

The vxvmconvert utility changes the disk areas containing the LVM configuration

information, creating equivalent VxVM configuration information. The areas of

the disks used for user data, such as file systems and databases, are not affected

by the conversion.

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