Difference between LVM and VxVM w/VxFS

[Peter Kovacs 1.0rc]

The installation guide (Manufacturing Part Number: 5991-4794 March 2006, Edition 6, page 91) lists the following available file system types:

- LVM
- VxVM w/VxFS
- Whole disk with VxFS

What is the difference between LVM and VxVM?

Is it possible to have both HP-UX and Linux installed on the same disk with VxVM?

Thanks
Peter

[Mustafa Gulercan]

hi Peter;
intallation HP-UX is based on architecture of CPU, not based on disk.
So If your CPU architecture is PA-RISC you can not install Linux at that system.

For LVM, VxFS, VxVM, just search at the forum.this case is opened before.

regards;
mustafa

[Hein van den Heuvel · Accepted solution]

mustafa,

Peter is refering to the install task as they concern the target disk.


Peter,
Traditionally hpux does not do partitions

In order to support the EFI for Itanium systems limited partition support is avaiable.

Still, it does not seem worth it to hassle with all that. Personally I decided to just go with the two disk one for each OS. In my case that was OpenVMS on one, Hpux on the other. I then created a virtual VMS disk over a LV place holder on the hpuc drive to have more play space.

Many interesting writings exist already.
For example:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=734898

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1033693

hth,
Hein.

[Torsten.]

Again the same link (Integrity virtual machines) as an alternative solution:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1093830

[Peter Kovacs 1.0rc]

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1094650