topic Re: Converting LVM root disk to VxVM in Operating System - HP-UX

Converting LVM root disk to VxVM

Ivan Roubinov — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:03:32 GMT

Is there any way to convert a LVM root disk to VxVM disk on a system with only 2 physical disks? The problem is: if the target disk is already member of rootdg, vxcp_lvmroot is not working.

Re: Converting LVM root disk to VxVM

harry d brown jr — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:05:56 GMT

rebuild the server from scratch.

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harry d brown jr

Re: Converting LVM root disk to VxVM

Pete Randall — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:12:48 GMT

There is a command to convert, but it destroys the existing LVM configuration. I would suggest trying an Ignite make_tape_recovery backup and restore. I believe you can elect to create VxVM disks during the restore.

Pete

Re: Converting LVM root disk to VxVM

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:21:43 GMT

Take two Ignite backups before you start.

I think Pete's Ignite suggestion is the only one that has real hope.

Might be abel to do it in hpux -lm mode.

SEP