11 Using Virtual Disks

This chapter describes how to use virtual disks with Oracle VM Server for SPARC software.

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Introduction to Virtual Disks

• Virtual Disk Identifier and Device Name

• Managing Virtual Disks

• Virtual Disk Appearance

• Virtual Disk Back End Options

• Virtual Disk Back End

• Configuring Virtual Disk Multipathing

• CD, DVD and ISO Images

• Virtual Disk Timeout

• Virtual Disk and SCSI

• Virtual Disk and the format Command

• Using ZFS With Virtual Disks

• Using Volume Managers in an Oracle VM Server for SPARC Environment

• Virtual Disk Issues