big volume group

[made13]

Is there a command to tell whether a volume group has been created as a big volume group in aix? If not, can the 'odmget' command reveal if the volume group is a bigvg?

I know you can do a mkvg -B and chvg -B, but I have not come across a command to tell whether a volume group is a bigvg(not that I know of anyway).

 

[made13]

After some more digging around, the only way to tell if a vg is a bigvg, is if the MAX_LVS is greater than 256. This is what the mkszfile command runs while backing up a volume group. Hmm...it would have been nice if there was a field in the lsvg listing to show this info.....

 

[bi]

lsvg -L <vgname> does tell you what MAX LVs is.

 

[tedans]

I believe MAX LVs is shown when executing the command:
lsvg <vgname>

 

[bjverzal]

Also - MAX PVs will be > 32