InfoScale™ 9.0 Virtualization Guide - Solaris

To create virtual disks on top of the Arctera Volume Manager data volumes using the ldm command

1. The VxVM diskgroup on the target host is imported in the control domain, after which volumes are visible from inside the control domain.

   See the Storage Foundation Administrator's Guide to move disk groups between systems.

2. In the control domain (primary), configure a service exporting the VxVM volume containing a VxFS or UFS filesystem as a slice using the options=slice option:

   primary# ldm add-vdiskserverdevice options=slice \ 
   /dev/vx/dsk/dg-name/volume_name \ 
   volume_name volume_name@primary-vds0

   Caution:

   A volume by default shows up as a full disk in the guest. The Virtual Disk Client driver writes a VTOC on block 0 of the virtual disk, which will end up as a WRITE on block 0 of the VxVM volume. This can potentially cause data corruption, because block 0 of the VxVM volume contains user data. Using options=slice exports a volume as a slice to the guest and does not cause any writes to block 0, therefore preserving user data.

3. Add the exported disk to a guest domain:

   primary# ldm add-vdisk vdisk1 volume_name
   volume_name@primary-vds0 ldom1

4. Start the guest domain, and ensure that the new virtual disk is visible.

   primary# ldm bind ldom1

   primary# ldm start ldom1

5. If the new virtual disk device node entries do not show up in the/dev/[r]dsk directories, then run the devfsadm command in the guest domain:

   ldom1# devfsadm -C

   In this example, the new disk appears as /dev/[r]dsk/c0d1s0.

   ldom1# ls -l /dev/dsk/c0d1s0

   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 62 Sep 11 13:30 /dev/dsk/c0d1s0 ->
   ../../devices/virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/disk@1:a

6. Mount the file system on the disk to access the application data:

   ldom1# mount -F vxfs /dev/dsk/c0d1s0 /mnt

   ldom1# mount -F ufs /dev/dsk/c0d1s0 /mnt