What is the difference between initialization & encapsulation
in VXVM?

Answer Posted / ram

We can bring the disk in to vxvm control by 2 ways

1.initialization
The data in the disk destroyed and it makes entire disk as
a single volume

2.encapsulation

while bringing the disk into vxvm under encapsulation it
converts the slices into volumes.so each slice treated as a
volume.so it will preserve the data.this methodrecommended
for to bring the OS or data disk into vxvm control.

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