Veritas Volume Manager 5.1 SP1 Administrator"s Guide (5900-1506, April 2011)

If operating system-based naming is selected, all VxVM commands that list DMP
node devices will display device names according to the mode that is specified.
Table 3-2
Modes to display device names for all VxVM commands
Format of output from VxVM commandMode
The same format is used as in the input to the command (if
this can be determined). Otherwise, legacy names are used.
This is the default mode.
default
Only legacy names are displayed.legacy
Only new (agile) names are displayed.new
Administering disks
Changing the disk-naming scheme
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