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InfoScale™ 9.0 Virtualization Guide - Solaris

Last Published: 2025-09-09

Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)

Platform: Solaris

Section I. Overview of InfoScale solutions in Solaris virtualization environments
1. Overview of InfoScale virtualization solutions
Section II. Zones
1. InfoScale Enterprise Solutions support for Solaris Native Zones
Section III. Oracle VM Server for SPARC
Section IV. Reference
1. Appendix A. Where to find more information

Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager

The Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager (VxODM) is specifically designed for file management and disk I/O throughput. The features of VxODM are best suited for databases that reside in an InfoScale File System (VxFS). VxODM allows users to improve database throughput for I/O intensive workloads with special I/O optimization.

VxODM is supported in non-global zones. To run Oracle 11g Release 2 on a non-global zone and use VxODM, the Oracle software version must be 11.4.

For more information on supported versions, refer to the InfoScale Support Matrix for IBM DB2.

Care must be taken when installing and removing packages when working with the VRTSodm package, for more information refer to the following:

Enabling ODM file access from non-global zones with VxFS

This section describes how to enable ODM file access from non-global zones with VxFS:

On Solaris 11:
- If there is no existing zone.
  See “On Solaris 11: To enable ODM file access from non-global zones with VxFS, if there is no existing zone”.
- If there is existing zone.
  See “On Solaris 11: To enable ODM file access from non-global zones with VxFS, if there is existing zone”.

On Solaris 11: To enable ODM file access from non-global zones with VxFS, if there is no existing zone

Install SF in the global zone.
See the Storage Foundation Configuration and Upgrade Guide.
Set publisher for installation after going in the pkgs folder of the same installer:
```
global# pkg set-publisher -P -g VRTSpkgs.p5p Veritas
```

Create a zone with the following configuration:

zonecfg:myzone> create
create: Using system default template 'SYSdefault'
zonecfg:myzone> set zonepath=/export/home/myzone
zonecfg:myzone> set fs-allowed=default,vxfs,odm
zonecfg:myzone> add fs
zonecfg:myzone:fs> set dir=/etc/vx/licenses/lic
zonecfg:myzone:fs> set special=/etc/vx/licenses/lic
zonecfg:myzone:fs> set type=lofs
zonecfg:myzone:fs> end
zonecfg:myzone:fs> remove anet linkname=net0
zonecfg:myzone> add device
zonecfg:myzone:device> set match=/dev/vxportal
zonecfg:myzone:device> end
zonecfg:myzone> add device
zonecfg:myzone:device> set match=/dev/fdd
zonecfg:myzone:device> end
zonecfg:myzone> add device
zonecfg:myzone:device> set match=/dev/odm
zonecfg:myzone:device> end
zonecfg:myzone> verify
zonecfg:myzone> commit

Install the zone:
```
global# zoneadm -z myzone install
```
Boot the zone.
```
global# zoneadm -z myzone boot
```
Configure the zone:
```
global# zlogin -C myzone
```

Install VRTSvxfs, VRTSodm, and VRTSvlic in the zone:

myzone# pkg install --accept VRTSvxfs VRTSodm VRTSvlic

Enable the vxodm service inside the zone:
```
myzone# svcadm enable vxodm
```
Execute the mount -p | grep odm in the local zone and confirm the output looks similar to the following:
```
/dev/odm - /dev/odm odm - no nodevices,smartsync,zone=myzone,
	sharezone=5
```
Unset the publisher after coming inside the global zone:
```
global# pkg unset-publisher Veritas
```

On Solaris 11: To enable ODM file access from non-global zones with VxFS, if there is existing zone

Check whether, SF is installed in the global zone or not. If not, Install SF in the global zone.
See the Storage Foundation Configuration and Upgrade Guide.
2. Set publisher for installation after going in the pkgs folder of the same installer with which SF was installed in the global zone.
```
global# pkg set-publisher -P -g VRTSpkgs.p5p Veritas
```
Check whether the zone is in running or in installed state. If it is running then shut it down:
```
global# zoneadm -z myzone shutdown
```

Set fs-allowed to be default,vxfs,odm:

zonecfg -z myzone
zonecfg:myzone> set fs-allowed=default,vxfs,odm
zonecfg:myzone> verify
zonecfg:myzone> commit

Add license directory as fs in zone configuration file:

zonecfg -z myzone
zonecfg:myzone> add fs
zonecfg:myzone:fs> set dir=/etc/vx/licenses/lic
zonecfg:myzone:fs> set special=/etc/vx/licenses/lic
zonecfg:myzone:fs> set type=lofs
zonecfg:myzone:fs> end
zonecfg:myzone> verify
zonecfg:myzone> commit

Add three devices vxportal, fdd, and odm in the zone configuration file:

zonecfg -z myzone
zonecfg:myzone> add device
zonecfg:myzone:device> set match=/dev/vxportal
zonecfg:myzone:device> end
zonecfg:myzone> add device
zonecfg:myzone:device> set match=/dev/fdd
zonecfg:myzone:device> end
zonecfg:myzone> add device
zonecfg:myzone:device> set match=/dev/odm
zonecfg:myzone:device> end
zonecfg:myzone> verify
zonecfg:myzone> commit

Boot the zone:
```
global# zoneadm -z myzone boot
```

Install VRTSvxfs, VRTSodm, and VRTSvlic in the zone:

myzone# pkg install --accept VRTSvxfs VRTSodm VRTSvlic

Enable the vxodm service inside the zone:
```
myzone# svcadm enable vxodm
```
Execute the mount - p | grep odm in the local zone and confirm the output looking similar to the following:
```
/dev/odm - /dev/odm odm - no nodevices,smartsync,zone=myzone,sharezone=5
```
11. Unset the publisher after coming inside the global zone:
```
global# pkg unset-publisher Veritas
```