Introduction

This chapter provides information about the VERITAS Volume Manager command line interface (CLI). The Volume Manager command set (for example, the vxassist command) ranges from commands requiring minimal user input to commands requiring detailed user input. Many of the Volume Manager commands require an understanding of Volume Manager concepts. For more information on Volume Manager concepts, see “Volume Manager Conceptual Overview”. Most Volume Manager commands require access privileges.

	NOTE: Rootability or bringing the root disk under the VxVM control, is not supported for the HP-UX 11i release of Volume Manager. Rootability is supported on HP-UX 11i Version 1.5 systems.

See the chapters that follow for information on using Volume Manager commands to perform common tasks. The vxintro(1M) manual page also contains introductory information relating to Volume Manager tasks.

The following topics are covered in this chapter:

	NOTE: Your system can use a device name that differs from the examples. For more information on device names, see “Disk Devices”.