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Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.0 Administration Guide     Oracle VM Server for SPARC
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Preface

Part I Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.0 Software

1.  Overview of the Oracle VM Server for SPARC Software

2.  Installing and Enabling Software

3.  Oracle VM Server for SPARC Security

4.  Setting Up Services and the Control Domain

5.  Setting Up Guest Domains

6.  Setting Up I/O Domains

7.  Using Virtual Disks

Introduction to Virtual Disks

Managing Virtual Disks

How to Add a Virtual Disk

How to Export a Virtual Disk Back End Multiple Times

How to Change Virtual Disk Options

How to Change the Timeout Option

How to Remove a Virtual Disk

Virtual Disk Identifier and Device Name

Virtual Disk Appearance

Full Disk

Single-Slice Disk

Virtual Disk Back End Options

Read-only (ro) Option

Exclusive (excl) Option

Slice (slice) Option

Virtual Disk Back End

Physical Disk or Disk LUN

How to Export a Physical Disk as a Virtual Disk

Physical Disk Slice

How to Export a Physical Disk Slice as a Virtual Disk

How to Export Slice 2

File and Volume

File or Volume Exported as a Full Disk

How to Export a File as a Full Disk

How to Export a ZFS Volume as a Full Disk

File or Volume Exported as a Single-Slice Disk

How to Export a ZFS Volume as a Single-Slice Disk

Exporting Volumes and Backward Compatibility

Summary of How Different Types of Back Ends Are Exported

Guidelines for Exporting Files and Disk Slices as Virtual Disks

Configuring Virtual Disk Multipathing

Virtual Disk Multipathing and Virtual Disk Timeout

How to Configure Virtual Disk Multipathing

CD, DVD and ISO Images

How to Export a CD or DVD From the Service Domain to the Guest Domain

How to Export an ISO Image From the Control Domain to Install a Guest Domain

Virtual Disk Timeout

Virtual Disk and SCSI

Virtual Disk and the format Command

Using ZFS With Virtual Disks

Configuring a ZFS Pool in a Service Domain

Storing Disk Images With ZFS

Examples of Storing Disk Images With ZFS

How to Create a Disk Image Using a ZFS Volume

How to Create a Disk Image Using a ZFS File

How to Export the ZFS Volume

How to Export the ZFS File

How to Assign the ZFS Volume or File to a Guest Domain

Creating a Snapshot of a Disk Image

How to Create a Snapshot of a Disk Image

Using Clone to Provision a New Domain

Cloning a Boot Disk Image

Using Volume Managers in a Logical Domains Environment

Using Virtual Disks on Top of Volume Managers

Using Virtual Disks on Top of Solaris Volume Manager

Using Virtual Disks When VxVM Is Installed

Using Volume Managers on Top of Virtual Disks

Using ZFS on Top of Virtual Disks

Using Solaris Volume Manager on Top of Virtual Disks

Using VxVM on Top of Virtual Disks

8.  Using Virtual Networks

9.  Migrating Domains

10.  Managing Resources

11.  Managing Domain Configurations

12.  Performing Other Administration Tasks

Part II Optional Oracle VM Server for SPARC Software

13.  Oracle VM Server for SPARC Physical-to-Virtual Conversion Tool

14.  Oracle VM Server for SPARC Configuration Assistant (Oracle Solaris 10)

15.  Using Power Management

16.  Using the Oracle VM Server for SPARC Management Information Base Software

17.  Logical Domains Manager Discovery

18.  Using the XML Interface With the Logical Domains Manager

Glossary

Index

Virtual Disk and the format Command

The format command recognizes all virtual disks that are present in a domain. However, for virtual disks that are exported as single-slice disks, the format command cannot change the partition table of the virtual disk. Commands such as label will fail unless you try to write a disk label similar to the one that is already associated with the virtual disk.

Virtual disks whose back ends are SCSI disks support all format(1M) subcommands. Virtual disks whose back ends are not SCSI disks do not support some format(1M) subcommands, such as repair and defect. In that case, the behavior of format(1M) is similar to the behavior of Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) disks.