Veritas InfoScale™ 7.3.1 Virtualization Guide - Solaris

To provision Veritas Volume Manager volumes as data disks

1. Create a VxVM disk group (mydatadg in this example) with some disks allocated to it:

   primary# vxdg init mydatadg TagmaStore-USP0_29 TagmaStore-USP0_30

2. Create a VxVM volume of the desired layout (in this example, creating a simple volume):

   primary# vxassist -g mydatadg make datavol1 500m

3. Configure a service exporting the volume datavol1 as a virtual disk:

   primary# ldm add-vdiskserverdevice /dev/vx/dsk/mydatadg/datavol1 \
   datadisk1@primary-vds0

4. Add the exported disk to a guest domain.

   primary# ldm add-vdisk vdisk1 datadisk1@primary-vds0 ldom1

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

   primary# ldm bind ldom1

   primary# ldm start ldom1

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

   ldom1# devfsadm -C

7. Label the disk using the format command to create a valid label before trying to access it.

   See the format(1M) manual page.

8. Create the file system where c0d1s2 is the disk.

   ldom1# mkfs -F vxfs /dev/rdsk/c0d1s2

9. Mount the file system.

   ldom1# mount -F vxfs /dev/dsk/c0d1s2 /mnt

10. Verify that the file system has been created:

    ldom11# df -hl -F vxfs

    Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
    /dev/dsk/c0d1s2 500M 2.2M 467M 1% /mnt