vxconvert provides a default name for naming the newly formed VxVM disk group during conversion only as an option. However, you will be given the choice of choosing your own VxVM disk group name. By default, vxconvert renames the LVM volume group by replacing the prefix vg in the volume group name with the prefix dg. For example, vg08 would become dg08. If there is no vg in the LVM volume group name, vxconvert simply uses the same volume group name for its disk group.

The disks in the new VxVM disk group are given VxVM disk media names based on this disk group name.

See the man page vxintro(1M).

If your new VxVM disk group is dg08, it will have VxVM disks with names like dg0801, dg0802, and so on. The VxVM plexes within the logical volumes will be dg0801-01, dg0801-02, and so on.

If you do not like the default object names generated by the conversion, use the standard VxVM utilities to rename these objects. See the rename option in the vxedit(1M) man page for more details on renaming the disk groups.

If you have chosen to set up symbolic links to the VxVM volumes, avoid renaming VxVM objects.

See Plan for new VxVM logical volume names.

These symbolic links are made invalid if the underlying VxVM device node name changes.