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Operating Systems Solaris Can I create virtual disk from zpool on Solaris 11.4 for OVM? Post 303045090 by solaris_1977 on Wednesday 11th of March 2020 07:14:44 PM
Old 03-11-2020
Can I create virtual disk from zpool on Solaris 11.4 for OVM?

Hello,

I am here again, with another issue.

I am setting up a new Oracle VM setup (GUI). On the backend, it is ldom concept, but GUI seems to have an easier interface.
For now, we don't have any SFP module and these two S7 Sparc servers are not connected to Storage, so I have to live with local disks only. Now the limitation comes here.
I will create one repository with one local disk and can create VM's from that. That means, VM will be sitting on that repository, which is made of local disk. If ever, I want to replace that local disk (due to hard/transport/bad errors), I will not be able to migrate these VMs to another repository/pool because these VMs are on local disk. This will be a bad design.
Even if I create zpool with two disk, I thought I should be able to see that pool in OVM. But from Oracle VM perspective GUI Manager does not recognize zpools, only disk. I created a case with Oracle for best practice to be used for this and they responded -- "OVM is not designed to manage redundancy with local disks. That is why Oracle VM is capable to handle SAN Storage over the network or even fiber channel. Now from Solaris perspective, I think that you can manually assign zpool as virtual disk to the LDOMs guest, but you need to do research on this if this is possible"

I tried to google and didn't find any relevant note, if I can create virtual disks from zpool.

Another idea came in my mind was, if I can create hardware RAID, then OS will see that single disk, but then I found this link - Hardware RAID Support -
SPARC and Netra SPARC S7-2 Series Servers Administration Guide
and it denies it.

Any suggestions or ideas, please ?

Thanks
 

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raidctl(1M)						  System Administration Commands					       raidctl(1M)

NAME
raidctl - RAID hardware utility SYNOPSIS
raidctl -c disk1 disk2 raidctl -d disk1 raidctl [-f] -F filename controller... raidctl -l [controller...] DESCRIPTION
The raidctl utility creates, deletes, or displays RAID volumes of the LSI1030 HW Raid controllers that include RAID support. The utility also updates firmware/fcode/BIOS for both RAID and non-RAID controllers. The raidctl utility requires privileges that are controlled by the underlying file-system permissions. Only privileged users can manipulate the RAID system configuration. If a non-privileged user attempts to create or delete a RAID volume, the command fails with EPERM. Without options, raidctl displays the current RAID configuration on all exisiting controllers. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -c disk1 disk2 (for on board) Create a mirror using disk1 and disk2. Replace the contents of disk2 with the contents of disk1. Specify disk1 and disk2 in canonical form, for example, c0t0d0. When you create a a RAID volume, the RAID volume assumes the identity of the first target in the disk pair (disk1). The second target (disk2) disappears from the system. Therefore, the RAID volume appears as one disk. To have a successful RAID creation, there must not already be a RAID configuration present on the specified controller. Additionally, the secondary disk must not be mounted, as it has all its data erased and replaced with the primary disk's data. -d disk1 (for on board) Delete the RAID volume specified as disk1. Specify disk1 in canonical form, for example, c0t0d0. -f (for HBA) Force an update. Do not prompt. -F filename controller (for HBA) Update the firmware running on the specified controller (controller). -l [controller ...] (for on board) List the system's RAID configuration. If controller is specified, list RAID configurations for controller. Output from the -l lists the following information: RAID Volume Displays logical RAID volume name. RAID Status Displays RAID status as either RESYNCING (disks are syncing), DEGRADED RAID is operating with reduced functionality), OK (operating optimally), or FAILED (non-functional). RAID Disk Displays RAID disk name. Disk Status Displays disk status as either OK or FAILED. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Creating the RAID Configuration The following command creates the RAID configuration: # raidctl -c c0t0d0 c0t1d0 RAID Volume 'c0t0d0' created Example 2: Displaying the RAID Configuration The following command displays the RAID configuration: # raidctl RAID RAID RAID Disk Volume Status Disk Status ---------------------------------------- c0t0d0 RESYNCING c0t0d0 OK c0t1d0 OK Example 3: Deleting the RAID Configuration The following command deletes the RAID configuration: # raidctl -d c0t0d0 RAID Volume 'c0t0d0' deleted Example 4: Updating Flash Images on the Controller The following command updates flash images on the controller: # raidctl -F lsi1030.fw 0 Update flash image on controller 0? (y/N): y Flash updated successfully EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Successful completion. 1 Invalid command line input. 2 Request operation failed. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5) System Administration Guide: Basic Administration SunOS 5.10 17 Aug 2004 raidctl(1M)
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