VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Migration Guide (August 2002)

Chapter 3, Command Differences
Final 24 July 2002 Comparison of LVM and VxVM Tasks
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LVM Create a logical volume in LVM
volume group.
lvcreate -L vol_size /dev/vol_grp
VxVM Create a volume of one of these layout
types:
A concatenated volume
A striped mirror volume
A RAID-5 volume
vxassist make vol_name
length
vxassist make vol_name length
layout=mirror, stripe
vxassist make vol_name length
layout=raid5
LVM Display information about logical
volumes.
lvdisplay /dev/vol_grp/lvol_name
VxVM Display all volume information.
Display information about a specific
volume.
vxprint -vt
vxprint -ht vol_name
Table 3. LVM and VxVM Task Comparison
Task
Type
Description Example
Example for a disk_group = veritasdg, medianame = disk01, vol_name -= veritasvol, plex name =
veritasvol-01, subdisk -= disk01-01, devicename = c0t0d0.