VIO operation failed because device is being used in LDom

If you encountered following Error while removing the disk from the Solaris 11 Environment then this post will definatley help you.

root@oratest:~# ldm rm-vdisk vdisk2_sol114 orautestdb2
Guest LDom returned the following reason for failing the operation:

                         Resource                                    Information
----------------------------------------------------------  -----------------------------
/devices/virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/disk@2:a   mounted filesystem "/.cdrom"
VIO operation failed because device is being used in LDom orautestdb2
Failed to remove vdisk instance

Cause: The virtual devices cannot be removed the virtual machine is up and running.

root@oratest:~# ldm list
NAME             STATE      FLAGS   CONS    VCPU  MEMORY   UTIL  NORM  UPTIME
primary          active     -n-cv-  UART    16    18G      0.6%  0.6%  82d 21h 38m
orautestapp      active     -n----  5001    48    32G      0.1%  0.1%  48d 3h 25m
orautestdb       active     -n----  5000    64    64G      0.1%  0.1%  13d 1h 46m
orautestdb2      active     -n----  5002    24    64G      0.2%  0.2%  13d 56m
orautestapp2     inactive   ------          24    64G
root@oratest:~#

Solution: Stop the virtual machine on which we are trying to remove the virtual disk and then remove the device it will complete without any issues.

root@oratest:~# ldm rm-vdisk vdisk2_sol114 orautestdb2

Thanks for reading :)

regards,

Zaheer