Modify a Physical Disk

You might need to modify the current Quality of Service (QoS) attributes for a physical disk, such as increase the capacity or allocate space for clone physical disks. You can modify an existing physical disk from the Oracle VM Manager.

1. In the Oracle VM Manager, select the Storage tab.
2. From the available SAN servers in the navigation tree, select the Oracle FS System upon which the physical disk you want to modify resides.
3. Select Physical Disks from the Perspective: drop-down list in the toolbar at the top of the content area of the page.
4. Select the physical disk you want to modify.
5. In the toolbar at the top of the content area of the page, click the Edit Physical Disk pencil icon.
6. In the Edit Physical Disk dialog, modify any of the following:

   Name

   Identifies the name that is assigned to a physical disk for administrative purposes. Physical disk names must be unique across the Oracle FS System and must be 82 or fewer UTF characters (255 or fewer ASCII characters).

   Note: Changing the physical disk name in Oracle VM Manager does not change the LUN name on the Oracle FS System. To change the Oracle FS System LUN name, use the Oracle FS System or Oracle FS CLI.

   New Size

   Specify the size to which you want to increase the physical disk.

   Note: When you modify a physical disk, you cannot decrease the physical disk size.

   Extra Information

   You cannot modify Extra Information field to change the priority level of an existing physical disk (LUN) in Oracle VM Manager. You need to use the Oracle FS System or CLI to modify these options on an existing LUN.

   Description

   Edit the description of the Oracle FS System physical disk. Maximum 4096 characters.

   Shareable

   Select to make the physical disk available to share across virtual machines. This option is an Oracle VM Manager option.

   For more information about sharing disks, refer to the Oracle VM documentation on the Oracle Technical Network (http://docs.oracle.com).

   Thin Provision

   You cannot modify this field.

7. Click OK.
   Result:The changes are applied to the physical disk and display in the Physical Disks table in the content area of the page.