Tuesday, October 13, 2009

PV commands in AIX


AIX Physical Volume commands


lspv                         show all PV's in the system and their status

lspv hdisk0              display status and characteristics of the PV hdisk0

lspv -p hdisk0          display PP usage of hdisk0 and their location

lspv -l hdisk0           To list all logical volumes on PV hdisk0 and their  distribution

chpv -v r hdisk1       make unavailable the PV (Used while removing PV without varyoffvg)

chpv -v a hdisk1      make PV available.(Open the PV)

chpv -c hdisk0        Clear the master boot record on PV hdisk0 (CAREFULLY..!!)

migratepv hdisk1 hdisk2  To move PPs from hdisk1 to hdisk2

migratepv -l newlv hdisk1 hdisk2   To migrate LV newlv from hdisk1 to hdisk2


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1 comment:

  1. migratepv -l newlv hdisk1 hdisk2 <--- sweet , just what I was looking for :-)

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