Veritas / AIX : Logical Volume Manager

Tasks

AIX Logical Volume
Manager

Veritas Volume Manager

Create a Volume Group

mkvg

vxdg init

Create a Logical Volume

mklv

vxassist make

Add a Physical Disk to a Volume Group

extendvg

vxdiskadd

Add Physical Partitions to Logical
Volume

extendlv

vxassist growto

Change characteristics of Logical
Volume

chlv

vxedit set

Remove Physical Disk from Volume Group

reducevg

vxdiskadm

Remove Logical Volume from Volume Group

rmlv

vxedit rm

Remove definition of Volume Group from operating
system

exportvg

?

Display information about physical volumes, volume groups or
logical volumes

lspv
lsvg
lslv

vxstat

Move Logical Volume to from one Physical Volume to another
Physical Volume

migratepv

vxassist move

Administer disks

extendvg
or
reducevg

vxdiskadm

Set up disks

extendvg

vxdisksetup

Create configuration records for storage
structures

mkvg
or
mklv

vxmake

Manage plexes or Volume Groups

mkvg
or
mklv

vxplex

Display Volume Group information

lsvg

vxprint

Change size of Logical Volume

extendlv
or
chlv

vxresize

Manage subdisk or physical volume

chpv

vxsd

Manage volume

chlv
mklv
rmlv

vxvol

Set up sysboot information on VM disk

bosboot

vxbootsetup

Manage VM disks

N/A

vxdisk

Back up operating system

mksysb
or
mkcd

Solstice Backup:
nwadmin

Solstice Backup: nwadmin

mksysb
or
mkcd

nwadmin
nwrecover

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