VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Migration Guide

Converting LVM to VxVM
Examples
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Select an operation to perform: 2
Convert one or more LVM Volume Groups
Menu: VolumeManager/LVM_Conversion/Convert_LVM_VGs
Use this operation to convert one or more LVM Volume
Groups to one
or more VxVM disk groups. This adds the disks to a disk
group
and replaces existing partitions with volumes. LVM-VxVM
Volume
Group conversion may require a reboot for the changes to
take
effect. For this release, only Non-root LVM Volume
Groups are
allowed to be converted.
More than one Volume Group or pattern may be entered at
the prompt.
Here are some LVM Volume Group selection examples:
all:analyze all LVM Volume Groups (all except Root VG)
listvg:list all LVM Volume Groups
list:list all disk devices
vg_name:a single LVM Volume Group, named vg_name
<pattern>:for example vg08 vg09 vg05
Select Volume Groups to convert :
[<pattern-list>,all,list,listvg,q,?] listvg
LVM VOLUME GROUP INFORMATION
NAME TYPE PHYSICAL VOLUME
vg00 ROOT c4t6d0
vg05 Non-Root c4t5d0
vg03 Non-Root c4t3d0 c4t2d0
vg08 Non-Root c4t8d0
Select Volume Groups to convert :
[<pattern-list>,all,list,listvg,q,?] vg08
vg08
Convert this Volume Group? [y,n,q,?] (default: y)
Name a new disk group [<group>,list,q,?] (default: dg08)
The following disk has been found in the vg08 volume
group and will
be configured for conversion to a VxVM disk group.
c4t8d0
A new disk group dg08 will be created and the disk device