Examples
Example: displaying the vxvmconvert menu
To display the vxvmconvert menu, use the following command:
# vxvmconvert
The following menu is displayed:
Volume Manager Support Operations
Menu: Volume Manager/LVM_Conversion
1 Analyze LVM Volume Groups for Conversion
2 Convert LVM Volume Groups to VxVM
3 Roll back from VxVM to LVM
list List disk information
listvg List LVM Volume Group information
? Display help about menu
?? Display help about the menuing system
q Exit from menus
Example: listing disk information
The list option of vxvmconvert displays information about the disks on a system. Select the list option from the vxvmconvert Main Menu:
Menu: Volume Manager/LVM_Conversion/list
# list
Use this menu option to display a list of disks. You can also choose to list detailed information about a disk by entering a specific disk device address.
Enter disk device or "all" [<address>,all,q,?](default: all) x
DEVICE DISK GROUP STATUS
c0t5d0 - - online
c0t8d0 - - LVM
c0t9d0 - - LVM
c0t10d0 disk01 rootdg online
c0t11d0 - - online
Device to list in detail [<address>,none,q,?] (default: none) none
Example: listing LVM volume group information
To list LVM volume group information, use the listvg option of vxvmconvert.
Select the listvg option from the vxvmconvert Main Menu:
Menu: Volume Manager/LVM_Conversion/ListLVMVolumeGroups
# listvg
Use this menu option to display a list of LVM volume groups. You can also choose to list detailed information about the LVM volume groups at a specific disk device address.
Select the Volume Group as follows:
Enter Volume Group (i.e.- vg08) or "all" [<address>,all,q,?] (default: all)
LVM VOLUME GROUP INFORMATION
NAME TYPE PHYSICAL VOLUME
vg00 ROOT c0t5d0
vg09 Non-Root c0t9d0
vg08 Non-Root c0t8d0
Volume Group to list in detail
[<address>,none,q,?] (default: none) none
To display detailed information about a volume group, select any of the volume groups from the above list.
Volume Group to list in detail \ [<address>,none,q,?] (default: none) vg08
--- Volume groups ---
VG Name /dev/vg08
VG Write Access read/write
VG Status available
Max LV 255
Cur LV 2
Open LV 2
Max PV 16
Cur PV 1
Act PV 1
Max PE per PV 1016
VGDA 2
PE Size (Mbytes) 4
Total PE 250
Alloc PE 250
Free PE 0
Total PVG 0
--- Logical volumes ---
LV Name /dev/vg08/lvol1
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 500
Allocated PE 125
Used PV 1
--- Physical Extent ---
LV Name /dev/vg08/lvol2
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 500
Current LE 125
Allocated PE 125
Used PV 1
--- Physical volumes ---
PV Name /dev/dsk/c0t8d0
PV Status available
Total PE 250
Free PE 0
List another LVM Volume Group? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)
Select an operation to perform:
Note
The volume groups you want to convert must not be a root volume group or have bootable volumes in the group.
Example: analyzing LVM volume groups
To analyze one or more LVM volume groups:
# vxvmconvert
Volume Manager Support Operations
Menu: VolumeManager/LVM_Conversion
1 Analyze LVM Volume Groups for Conversion
2 Convert LVM Volume Groups to VxVM
3 Roll back from VxVM to LVM
list List disk information
listvg List LVM Volume Group information
? Display help about menu
?? Display help about the menuing system
q Exit from menus
Select an operation to perform: 1
Analyze one or more LVM Volume Groups
Menu: Volume Manager/LVM_Conversion/Analyze_LVM_VGs
Use this operation to analyze one or more LVM volume groups for possible conversion using the VxVM Volume Manager. This operation checks for problems that would prevent the conversion from completing successfully. It calculates the space required to add the volume groups disks to a Volume Manager disk group, and to replace any existing partitions and volumes with Volume Manager volumes, plexes, and sub-disks.
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 analyze: [<pattern list>,all,list,listvg,q,?] vg08
Name a new disk group [<group>,list,q,?] (default: dg08)
Each volume group will be analyzed one at a time. If there are any in this list that you do not want to analyze, you can either abort now or wait until a later time when you will be given an opportunity to skip the analysis of any group(s) in this list.
The following disk has been found in the vg08 volume group and will be analyzed for VxVM conversion.
c8t8d0
To allow analysis, a new VxVM disk group, dg08, will be fabricated and the disk device c4t8d0 will be added to the disk group with the disk name dg0801.
The c4t8d0 disk has been configured for conversion.
The first stage of the Analysis process has completed successfully.
Second Stage Conversion Analysis of vg08
Analysis of vg08 found sufficient Private Space for conversion
Conversion Analysis of c4t8d0 indicates that the Volume Group is still in use, which may prevent the completion of the conversion without having to reboot the system. You may want to double check that none of the volumes in the volume group are in use before continuing with the conversion.
Volume Group Analysis Completed
Hit RETURN to continue.
Example of a failed analysis
# vxvmconvert
Volume Manager Support Operations
Menu: VolumeManager/LVM_Conversion
1 Analyze LVM Volume Groups for Conversion
2 Convert LVM Volume Groups to VxVM
3 Roll back from VxVM to LVM
list List disk information
listvg List LVM Volume Group information
? Display help about menu
?? Display help about the menuing system
q Exit from menus
Select an operation to perform: 1
Analyze one or more LVM Volume Groups
Menu: Volume Manager/LVM_Conversion/Analyze_LVM_VGs
Use this operation to analyze one or more LVM volume groups for possible conversion using the VxVM Volume Manager. This operation checks for problems that would prevent the conversion from completing successfully. It calculates the space required to add the volume groups disks to a Volume Manager disk group, and to replace any existing partitions and volumes with Volume Manager volumes, plexes, and sub-disks.
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 analyze :
[<pattern-list>,all,list,listvg,q,?] vg08
Name a new disk group [<group>,list,q,?] (default: dg08)
The following disk has been found in the vg08 volume group and will be analyzed for VxVM conversion.
c4t8d0
To allow analysis, a new VxVM disk group, dg08, will be fabricated and the disk device c4t8d0 will be added to the disk group with the disk name dg0801.
The c4t8d0 disk has been configured for conversion.
The first stage of the Analysis process has completed successfully.
Second Stage Conversion Analysis of vg08
Analysis of vg08 found insufficient Private Space for conversion
SMALLEST VGRA space = 176
RESERVED space sectors = 78
PRIVATE SPACE/FREE sectors = 98
AVAILABLE sector space = 49
AVAILABLE sector bytes = 50176
RECORDS neededs to convert = 399
MAXIMUM records allowable = 392
The smallest disk in the Volume Group (vg08) does not have sufficient private space for the conversion to succeed. There is only enough private space for 392 VM Database records and the conversion of Volume Group (vg08) would require enough space to allow 399 VxVM Database records. This would roughly translate to needing an additional 896 bytes available in the private space. This can be accomplished by reducing the number of volumes in the (vg08) Volume Group, and allowing that for every volume removed, the number of Database records required would be reduced by three. This is only a rough approximation, however.
Hit RETURN to continue.
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