When creating a clustered server pool with NFS as the storage for the server pool file system, Oracle VM Manager randomly selects a server to initialize the NFS file system to be used by the clustered server pool. This can cause problems in environments where Oracle VM Manager has been configured for both x86 and SPARC servers, since the pool file system is different for each of these platforms and can only be used by servers of the same type.

If an NFS pool file system is initialized by an x86 server then that file system can only be used for a cluster server pool with x86 servers. Similarly, if an NFS pool file system is initialized by a SPARC server then that file system can only be used for a cluster server pool with SPARC servers.

To prevent this issue, before creating a clustered server pool with an NFS file system, create a file system access group for that file system with only the servers that will be in the server pool.

Bug 17490488