AIX and Veritas

[Guest_imported]

How does Veritas volume manager work with aix 5l. My first feeling is that our company is replacing LVM with Veritas. Does anyone have any exposure to this effect.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[aixat]

Hello,
AIX has build in LVM. ASk Veritas. The veritas LVM is not going to work with AIX.

Why your company need to spend extra money on Veritas. When AIX OS gives you built in LVM.

 

[gileb]

i agree with you aix_dude, i have the same feeling. One of the pros is that veritas is the same on sun and ibm, and is then easyier to manage because no need to know aix...
And ibm seems to work hand in hand with veritas, the veritas fs is on the bonus pack with aix 5l !!

The same with VCS replacing hacmp ....

 

[vxman]

AIX 5.x and VERITAS VxVM works fine for me, existing VG's can be converted into VxVM Disk Groups. Beeing used to how it works on Solaris it is good to use the same sort of storage administration on AIX. Some nice features: striped-mirrored and mirrored-striped volumes, dynamic volume re-layout, shrinking/growing volumes along with the filesystems on the fly, software RAID5, volume replication (additional license for Volume Replicator neccessary), fully integrated in smit/smitty, device discovery layer with full array and multipath detection, etc, etc ... I used to like the AIX LVM but the VxVM would definitely be my first choice now..

/vxman