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About migration from Sistina LVM

Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) provides the vxvmconvert utility for converting Sistina Logical Volume Manager (LVM) volume groups and the objects that they contain to the equivalent VxVM disk groups and objects. Conversion of LVM2 volume groups is supported provided that the version of LVM2 is 2.00.33 or later.

Disks on your system that are managed by LVM can be of two types:

• Unused disks or disk partitions, which contain no user data, and are not used by any volume group, but which have LVM disk headers written by pvcreate.

  See "Converting unused LVM physical volumes to VxVM disks" on page 526.

• LVM disks or disk partitions in volume groups, and which contain logical volumes and volume groups.

  See "LVM volume group to VxVM disk group conversion" on page 527.

A converted VxVM disk group can also be reverted to an LVM volume group.

See "LVM volume group restoration" on page 539.

See the vxvmconvert(1M) manual page.