Review the following installation methods for installing a ZFS root pool:
The Live CD installation method installs a default ZFS root pool on a single disk.
The AI installer provides the flexibility of installing a ZFS root pool on the default boot disk or on a target disk that you identify. You can specify the logical device, such as c1t0d0, or the physical device path. In addition, you can use the MPxIO identifier or the device ID for the device to be installed.
With the automated installation (AI) method, you can create an AI manifest to identify the disk or mirrored disks for the ZFS root pool. For example, the following keywords in this default manifest snippet installs a mirrored root pool of two disks:
<target> <disk whole_disk="true" in_zpool="rpool" in_vdev="mirrored"> <disk_name name="c1t0d0" name_type="ctd"/> </disk> <disk whole_disk="true" in_zpool="rpool" in_vdev="mirrored"> <disk_name name="c2t0d0" name_type="ctd"/> </disk> <logical> <zpool name="rpool" is_root="true"> <vdev name="mirrored" redundancy="mirror"/> <!--
For example, if you want to set pool properties in the default manifest, you would include the pool_options keywords after the file system keywords but before the be_name keywords, similar to the following:
--> <filesystem name="export" mountpoint="/export"/> <filesystem name="export/home"/> <pool_options> <option name="listsnaps" value="on"/> </pool_options> <be name="solaris"/> </zpool> </logical> </target>
In the above syntax, the listsnaps pool property is enabled on the root pool.
After the installation, review your ZFS storage pool and file system information, which can vary by installation type and customizations. For example:
# zpool status rpool pool: rpool state: ONLINE scan: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM rpool ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c8t0d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c8t1d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 # zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT rpool 11.8G 55.1G 4.58M /rpool rpool/ROOT 3.57G 55.1G 31K legacy rpool/ROOT/solaris 3.57G 55.1G 3.40G / rpool/ROOT/solaris/var 165M 55.1G 163M /var rpool/VARSHARE 42.5K 55.1G 42.5K /var/share rpool/dump 6.19G 55.3G 6.00G - rpool/export 63K 55.1G 32K /export rpool/export/home 31K 55.1G 31K /export/home rpool/swap 2.06G 55.2G 2.00G -
Review your ZFS BE information. For example:
# beadm list BE Active Mountpoint Space Policy Created -- ------ ---------- ----- ------ ------- solaris NR / 3.75G static 2012-07-20 12:10
In the above output, the Active field indicates whether the BE is active now represented by N and active on reboot represented by R, or both represented by NR.