Provisioning new Disks to Guest Domain on Oracle Solaris 11 OS

In this blogpost we will see how we can provision the newly added disks to the guest VM and inside guest VM how we can add the newly provisioned disks to an existing mirrored zpool. Check the disks on controller Domain:

root@IJRERPS72L:/dev/rdsk# echo | format
Searching for disks...done
20. c3t5000CCA02B324091d0 
          /pci@302/pci@2/pci@0/pci@17/LSI,sas@0/iport@ff/disk@w5000cca02b324091,0
          /dev/chassis/SYS/HDD20/disk
21. c3t5000CCA02B31C5A1d0 
          /pci@302/pci@2/pci@0/pci@17/LSI,sas@0/iport@ff/disk@w5000cca02b31c5a1,0
          /dev/chassis/SYS/HDD21/disk
22. c3t5000CCA02B31D57Dd0 
          /pci@302/pci@2/pci@0/pci@17/LSI,sas@0/iport@ff/disk@w5000cca02b31d57d,0
          /dev/chassis/SYS/HDD22/disk
23. c3t5000CCA02B30E6B1d0 
          /pci@302/pci@2/pci@0/pci@17/LSI,sas@0/iport@ff/disk@w5000cca02b30e6b1,0
          /dev/chassis/SYS/HDD23/disk

Disks 20-23 to be provisioned on guest domain. 

 Create logical disk service for new disks on the controller domain:

root@IJRERPS72L:/dev/rdsk# ldm add-vdsdev /dev/rdsk/c3t5000CCA02B324091d0s2 diskssd1@primary-vds0
root@IJRERPS72L:/dev/rdsk# ldm add-vdsdev /dev/rdsk/c3t5000CCA02B31C5A1d0s2 diskssd2@primary-vds0
root@IJRERPS72L:/dev/rdsk# ldm add-vdsdev /dev/rdsk/c3t5000CCA02B31D57Dd0s2 diskssd3@primary-vds0
root@IJRERPS72L:/dev/rdsk# ldm add-vdsdev /dev/rdsk/c3t5000CCA02B30E6B1d0s2 diskssd4@primary-vds0

Provision of newly configure virtual disks to the VM:

root@IJRERPS72L:/dev/rdsk# ldm add-vdisk diskssd1 diskssd1@primary-vds0 ijrpserpdb-d1
root@IJRERPS72L:/dev/rdsk# ldm add-vdisk diskssd2 diskssd2@primary-vds0 ijrpserpdb-d1
root@IJRERPS72L:/dev/rdsk# ldm add-vdisk diskssd3 diskssd3@primary-vds0 ijrpserpdb-d1
root@IJRERPS72L:/dev/rdsk# ldm add-vdisk diskssd4 diskssd4@primary-vds0 ijrpserpdb-d1

verify the newly provisioned disk binding:

root@IJRERPS72L:/dev/rdsk# ldm list-bindings | grep ssd*
        diskssd1@ijrpserpdb-d1 diskssd1
        diskssd2@ijrpserpdb-d1 diskssd2
        diskssd3@ijrpserpdb-d1 diskssd3
        diskssd4@ijrpserpdb-d1 diskssd4

thanks for reading. 

 regards, 

ZAHEER