Using SVM on Top of Virtual Disks

Any virtual disk can be used in the SVM local disk set. For example, a virtual disk can be used for storing the SVM metadevice state database, metadb(1M), of the local disk set or for creating SVM volumes in the local disk set.

Any virtual disk whose backend is a SCSI disk can be used in a SVM shared disk set, metaset(1M). Virtual disks whose backends are not SCSI disks cannot be added into a SVM share disk set. Trying to add a virtual disk whose backend is not a SCSI disk into a SVM shared disk set fails with an error similar to the following.

# metaset -s test -a c2d2
metaset: domain1: test: failed to reserve any drives