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Why does Vertica 7.1 do not support LVM?

  • July 27, 2017
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mkheir
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As part of a future OBR deployment that come with Vertica 7.1 (see https://docs.software.hpe.com/OBR/10.10/Content/Install.htm) we have a customer that have its Linux environment on LVMs.

We know Vertica 7.1 do not support LVM , but the customer want a justification, can you please help with reasons why we did not support LVM in Vertica 7.1?

Many thanks.

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mkheir
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  • July 27, 2017

Update : OBR uses Vertica 8.0.1.


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  • July 27, 2017

As of 8.1 Vertica provides LVM support on all supported platforms. See doc here:

https://my.vertica.com/docs/8.1.x/HTML/index.htm#Authoring/SupportedPlatforms/VerticaSupportforLVM.htm