Using Solaris Volume Manager With Virtual Disks
Any virtual disk can be used in the Solaris Volume Manager local disk set. For example, a virtual disk can be used for storing the Solaris Volume Manager metadevice state database, metadb
, of the local disk set or for creating Solaris Volume Manager volumes in the local disk set.
Any virtual disk whose back end is a SCSI disk can be used in a Solaris Volume Manager shared disk set, metaset
. Virtual disks whose back ends are not SCSI disks cannot be added into a Solaris Volume Manager share disk set. Trying to add a virtual disk whose back end is not a SCSI disk into a Solaris Volume Manager shared disk set fails with an error similar to the following.
# metaset -s test -a c2d2
metaset: domain1: test: failed to reserve any drives