Both LVM disks and VxVM disks can exist together on a system.
The LVM disks are detected and displayed as such by VxVM. LVM disks
are not selected by VxVM for initialization, addition, or replacement.
Both LVM and VxVM utilities are aware of the other volume
manager, and will not overwrite disks that are being managed by
the other volume manager. The administrative utilities (SAM and
vmsa) recognize and identify all disks on the system (see Chapter 4 “SAM and Storage Administrator” for details).
The vxvmconvert command enables LVM disks to be converted to a VxVM
disk format without losing any data. For more information, see Chapter 2 “Converting LVM to VxVM”.
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