HP's future Plan for LVM?

[Tony Williams]

Now that HP has Tru64 UNIX in house, HP has LVM, Advance FS (from Tru64) and Veritas Volume Manager.

Does anyone know what the future plan is for LVM? We are bringing in new HP servers and with EMC backend arrays and we are wondering what file systems we should build with. Should we use Veritas, that is HP's stated future direction, do we use LVM which is HP's current product. And how does ADVFS fit into all of this? Should we stick with LVM in aniticipation of ADVFS.

I would guess that one of these products is odd man out. ADVFS is one of the cornerstones of Tru64, LVM belongs to HP, does thatmean that VxVM is odd man out?

[Pete Randall]

Tony,

Personally, I think it's far too early to tell at this point. So, to minimize conversion and re-conversion hassles, I've decided to stick with LVM until the path becomes a little clearer.

Pete

[Tom Maloy]

I have heard that LVM will be (eventually) discontinued, and Veritas will be the solution. Currently, I use LVM on HP and Veritas on Sun. Both are good products.

I would choose to stay with LVM on HP until HP actually retires LVM.

Just an opinion...

Tom

[John Poff]

Hi,

A little birdie from HP told me not to be in such a hurry to move to the Veritas filesystems, because the Veritas stuff wasn't all it was cracked up to be. I'm with the others, stay on LVM for now and wait to see how things play out.

JP

[Ian Kidd_1]

I've also heard that VxVM will be the future. Regardless, when we upgraded several systems to 11i,we decided to stick with LVM. If we need to change this in the future, HP has provided tools to convert LVM file systems to VxVM (e.g. vxvmconvert), but there are serveral conditions/caveats involved in that.

I didn't like the standard VxVM "light" (the full VxVM requiring an additional license). It's hard to justify to management the need to buy a new license for a potential future standard when the current standard works just fine.

[harry d brown jr]

I believe that HP's LVM came from IBM (AIX) and JFS from Veritas.

I agree that Veritas is very pricey.

live free or die
harry

[Jeff Schussele]

I'm with everybody else.
I'm gonna ride that LVM steed 'til it's time to put him out to pasture. He serves me well & will continue to do so.


Rgds,
Jeff (If it ain't broke don't fix it.)

[Ashwani Kashyap · Accepted solution]

VXVM is not as hunky dory as it sounds . My HP rep told me that HP has no plans to get rid of LVM in the near future . In fact he said they will port true 64 ADVFS in LVM itself and continue to do so with other features also . But they will also continue to sell VXVM as an option .

[Tony Williams]

Thanks for all the great responses.

I have also heard from HP that LVM is the strategic future for HP filesystems and that AdvFS will run on LVM. What I heard is better than a rumor but less than fact. So it would be nice to get a clearer picture from HP.