What is Visual LVM ?
Have you always been managing LVM by typing commands and constructing disk layout in your mind?
Now, Visual LVM gives you a better and easier way to work on it. It is a GUI LVM manager on LINUX platform. It shows the layout of storage system directly and clearly so that you can manage much more hard disks more easily and quickly. It frees you from complex commands, that means you don't need to type commands any more, even remember them, just by click and drag you can work it out simply. Visual LVM is a new style of LVM management. It saves your time and energy, helping you focus on your task and making your work more easy and efficent.
Try it! You will like it!
Features of Visual LVM
Physical Volume Operation |
Volume Group Operation |
Logical Volume Operation |
Feature |
Status |
Feature |
Status |
Feature |
Status |
Create |
 |
Create |
 |
Create |
 |
Delete |
 |
Delete |
 |
Delete |
 |
Change setting |
 |
Change setting |
 |
Change setting |
 |
Enlarge |
 |
Rename |
 |
Enlarge |
 |
Shrink |
 |
Append Physical Volume |
 |
Shrink |
 |
- |
- |
Remove Physical Volume |
 |
Rename |
 |
- |
- |
Backup |
 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Restore |
 |
- |
- |
Supported RAID type |
Type |
Status |
Linear |  |
Stripe |  |
Mirror |  |
StripeMirror |  |
RAID 4 |  |
RAID 5 |  |
RAID 6 |  |
View the layout directly & clearly
With concise design, you can see the layout of disks overall. Distinguish different volume types easily by its color bar, and read the detail below by hovering mouse on each component.
Operate easily with mouse clicking & dragging
Operate on object easily, no calculating, no parameter checking and no commands. It helps you focus on your work.
Avoid wrong operation
Mistakes and wrong operations will be forbidden by GUI, thus you don't have to wait till the command is launched as usual or reivew parameters time by time to pick up errors.