VxVM and LVM

This chapter provides an overview of the VERITAS Volume Manager (also referred to as VxVM) and its features. A brief description of the benefits of migrating from the HP-UX Logical Volume Manager (LVM) to VxVM, and the coexistence of VxVM disks with LVM disks is also given.

The following topics are discussed in this chapter:

• Introducing the VERITAS Volume Manager
• VxVM and LVM---Conceptual Comparison
• Coexistence of VxVM and LVM Disks