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Oracle VM Server for SPARC 2.0 Administration Guide
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Preface

1.  Overview of the Oracle VM Server for SPARC Software

2.  Installing and Enabling Software

3.  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

Add a Virtual Disk

Export a Virtual Disk Back End Multiple Times

Change Virtual Disk Options

Change the Timeout Option

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

Export a Physical Disk as a Virtual Disk

Physical Disk Slice

Export a Physical Disk Slice as a Virtual Disk

Export Slice 2

File and Volume

File or Volume Exported as a Full Disk

Export a File as a Full Disk

File or Volume Exported as a Single-Slice Disk

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

Using the Loopback File (lofi) Driver

Directly or Indirectly Exporting a Disk Slice

Configuring Virtual Disk Multipathing

Configure Virtual Disk Multipathing

CD, DVD and ISO Images

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

Export an ISO Image From the primary Domain to Install a Guest Domain

Virtual Disk Timeout

Virtual Disk and SCSI

Virtual Disk and the format(1M) 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

Create a Disk Image Using a ZFS Volume

Create a Disk Image Using a ZFS File

Export the ZFS Volume

Export the ZFS File

Assign the ZFS Volume or File to a Guest Domain

Creating a Snapshot of a Disk Image

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 Configurations

12.  Performing Other Administration Tasks

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

B.  Oracle VM Server for SPARC Configuration Assistant

C.  Logical Domains Manager Discovery

D.  Using the XML Interface With the Logical Domains Manager

E.  Logical Domains Manager XML Schemas

Glossary

Index

Virtual Disk and SCSI

If a physical SCSI disk or LUN is exported as a full disk, the corresponding virtual disk supports the user SCSI command interface, uscsi(7I) and multihost disk control operations mhd(7i). Other virtual disks, such as virtual disks having a file or a volume as a back end, do not support these interfaces.

As a consequence, applications or product features using SCSI commands (such as Solaris Volume Manager metaset, or Oracle Solaris Cluster shared devices) can be used in guest domains only with virtual disks having a physical SCSI disk as a back end.


Note - SCSI operations are effectively executed by the service domain, which manages the physical SCSI disk or LUN used as a virtual disk back end. In particular, SCSI reservations are done by the service domain. Therefore, applications running in the service domain and in guest domains should not issue SCSI commands to the same physical SCSI disks; otherwise, this can lead to an unexpected disk state.