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Volume managers on SnapDrive for UNIX

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On Linux, the volume manager is Native LVM2.

The following table describes the volume managers on your host platform:

Host Volume manager Volume or disk groups Location of logical volumes Location of multipathing devices

RHEL 4 and RHEL 5

Native LVM2

Volume groups vg

/dev/mapper/dgname-lvolname

/dev/mpath /dev/mapper /dev/dm

RHEL 6

Native LVM2

Volume groups vg

/dev/mapper/dgname-lvolname

/dev/mapper /dev/dm

SLES 10 and SLES 11

Native LVM2

Volume groups vg

/dev/mapper/dgname-volname

/dev/mapper /dev/dm