Find instructions for managing virtual storage devices and logical volumes.
Provisioning virtual disk resources occurs on the Virtual I/O Server. Physical disks owned by the Virtual I/O Server can either be exported and assigned to a client partition as a whole or can be partitioned into logical volumes. These logical volumes can be exported as virtual disks to one or more client partitions. Therefore, virtual SCSI enables sharing of adapters and disk devices.
To make a physical or logical volume available to a client partition requires that it be assigned to a virtual SCSI server adapter on the Virtual I/O Server. The SCSI client adapter is linked to a particular virtual SCSI server adapter in the Virtual I/O Server partition. The client partition accesses its assigned disks through the virtual SCSI client adapter. The Virtual I/O Server client adapter sees standard SCSI devices and LUNs through this virtual adapter. Assigning disk resources to a SCSI server adapter in the Virtual I/O Server effectively allocates resources to a SCSI client adapter in the client partition.
For information about SCSI devices that you can use, see the Virtual I/O Server Support for UNIX® servers and Midrange servers Web site.
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