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

Bringing the contents of physical disks under VxVM control is accomplished only
if VxVM takes control of the physical disks and the disk is not under control of
another storage manager such as LVM.
VxVM creates virtual objects and makes logical connections between the objects.
The virtual objects are then used by VxVM to do storage management tasks.
The vxprint command displays detailed information about the VxVM objects
that exist on a system.
See “Displaying volume information” on page 306.
See the vxprint(1M) manual page.
Combining virtual objects in VxVM
VxVM virtual objects are combined to build volumes. The virtual objects contained
in volumes are VM disks, disk groups, subdisks, and plexes. VxVM virtual objects
are organized in the following ways:
■ VM disks are grouped into disk groups
■ Subdisks (each representing a specific region of a disk) are combined to form
plexes
■ Volumes are composed of one or more plexes
Figure 1-5 shows the connections between Veritas Volume Manager virtual objects
and how they relate to physical disks.
Understanding Veritas Volume Manager
How VxVM handles storage management
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