This section provides several procedures for configuring disk drives for use by the Logical Volume Manager (LVM), maintaining physical and logical volumes and volume groups, and troubleshooting problems you might encounter. How-To's for System Management Tasks provides scenarios for additional Logical Volume Manager (LVM) tasks, such as how to use the snapshot feature (available with AIX 5.2 and later versions) to protect the consistency of your mirrored volume groups from potential disk failure.