The vgcreate command can be used to create an LVM volume group. In this example, physical volumes /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1 are added to a volume group named myVG. This assumes that both /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1 have been set up as LVM physical volumes.

~]# vgcreate myVG /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1

The vgdisplay command can be used to verify the LVM volume group was created.

--- Volume group ---
VG Name               vg001
System ID
Format                lvm2
Metadata Areas        1
Metadata Sequence No  3
VG Access             read/write
VG Status             resizable
MAX LV                0
Cur LV                2
Open LV               2
Max PV                0
Cur PV                1
Act PV                1
VG Size               <15.51 GiB
PE Size               4.00 MiB
Total PE              3970
Alloc PE / Size       3960 / <15.47 GiB
Free  PE / Size       10 / 40.00 MiB
VG UUID               lgHh9m-9iMP-8ltU-2cxz-Y4wL-uwG0-EHiGFr

Next, create a logical volume.