>>> On 7/24/2014 at 02:05 PM, "Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)" <[email protected]> wrote: > OOPs wrong listserv- my apologies
What's wrong with this listserv? I thought it was appropriate. > From: Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery) > Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 12:36 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Methods for migrating to new storage hardware > > We are moving to new san hardware, vacating old hardware. > > We use LVM with SLES. > > Wondering how most folks handle this nowadays- for example whether use > pvmove's or lvconvert's, fstab updates, etc. > > The man page for lvconvert has me a bit confused. I would say you're more likely to want to use the pvmove command. Add the new disks to the VG and then: 1. Use pvchange -x n on the "old" PVs. This will disable allocation of physical extents on them. 2. Use pvmove on the old PVs. You don't need to specify a destination PV if you don't want to. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
