Following on from my previous post, on working with scalable VGs.   https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/cgaix/entry/working_with_aix_scalable_volume_groups1?lang=en   You may find yourself in a situation where you’d like to convert a VG to scalable.   For example, you might start off with a normal VG i.e. one that can support a maximum of 256 LVs and 32 PVs.   # mkvg -s 512M -y myvg hdisk5 myvg   # lsvg myvg VOLUME GROUP:        myvg                      VG IDENTIFIER:   00f6027300004c0000000133aa24d1f6 VG STATE:... [More]

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