Using Virtual Disks on Top of SVM

When a RAID or mirror SVM volume is used as a virtual disk by another domain, then it has to be exported without setting the exclusive (excl) option. Otherwise, if there is a failure on one of the components of the SVM volume, then the recovery of the SVM volume using the metareplace command or using a hot spare does not start. The metastat command sees the volume as resynchronizing, but the resynchronization does not progress.

For example, /dev/md/dsk/d0 is a RAID SVM volume exported as a virtual disk with the excl option to another domain, and d0 is configured with some hot-spare devices. If a component of d0 fails, SVM replaces the failing component with a hot spare and resynchronizes the SVM volume. However, the resynchronization does not start. The volume is reported as resynchronizing, but the resynchronization does not progress.

# metastat d0
d0: RAID
    State: Resyncing
    Hot spare pool: hsp000
    Interlace: 32 blocks
    Size: 20097600 blocks (9.6 GB)
Original device:
    Size: 20100992 blocks (9.6 GB)
Device                                     Start Block  Dbase   State Reloc
c2t2d0s1                                           330  No       Okay  Yes
c4t12d0s1                                          330  No       Okay  Yes
/dev/dsk/c10t600C0FF0000000000015153295A4B100d0s1  330  No  Resyncing  Yes

In such a situation, the domain using the SVM volume as a virtual disk has to be stopped and unbound to complete the resynchronization. Then the SVM volume can be resynchronized using the metasync command.

# metasync d0