How to Export a Physical Disk as a Virtual Disk
 | Caution - When configuring virtual disks, ensure that each virtual disk references a distinct physical (back-end) resource, such as a physical disk, a disk slice, a file, or a volume. Some disks, such as FibreChannel and SAS, have a “dual-ported” nature, which means that the same disk can be referenced by two different paths. Ensure that the paths you assign to different domains do not refer to the same physical disk. |
- Export a physical disk as a virtual disk.
For example, to export the physical disk c1t48d0 as a virtual disk, you must export slice 2 of that disk (c1t48d0s2).
primary# ldm add-vdsdev /dev/dsk/c1t48d0s2 c1t48d0@primary-vds0
- Assign the disk to a guest domain.
For example, assign the disk (pdisk) to guest domain ldg1.
primary# ldm add-vdisk pdisk c1t48d0@primary-vds0 ldg1
- After the guest domain is started and running the Oracle Solaris OS, verify that the disk is accessible and is a full disk.
A full disk is a regular disk that has eight (8) slices.
For example, the disk being checked is c0d1.
ldg1# ls -1 /dev/dsk/c0d1s* /dev/dsk/c0d1s0 /dev/dsk/c0d1s1 /dev/dsk/c0d1s2 /dev/dsk/c0d1s3 /dev/dsk/c0d1s4 /dev/dsk/c0d1s5 /dev/dsk/c0d1s6 /dev/dsk/c0d1s7