You can create a file storage pool on a Virtual I/O Server using the mksp and mkbdsp commands.
Before you start, ensure that the
Virtual I/O Server is at version
1.5 or later.
To update the Virtual I/O Server, see Updating the Virtual I/O Server.Tip: If you are using the HMC, version 7 release
3.4.2 or later, you can use the HMC graphical interface
to create file storage pools on the Virtual I/O Server.
File storage pools are created within a parent logical
volume storage pool and contain a logical volume containing a file
system with files.
To create a file storage pool, complete the
following steps from the Virtual I/O Server command-line
interface:
- Create a file storage pool by running the mksp command:
mksp -fb dev_fbclt -sp dev_clients -size 7g
In
this example, the name of the file storage pool is dev_fbclt and
the parent storage pool is dev_clients.
- Define a file, which will be visible as a disk to the client
logical partition. The size of the file determines the size of the
disk presented to the client logical partition. Use the mkbdsp command
to create a 3 GB file called dev_dbsrv as follows:
mkbdsp -sp dev_fbclt 3G -bd dev_dbsrv
If
you also want to create a virtual target device, which maps the virtual
SCSI server adapter to the file, add -vadapter vhostx to
the end of the command. For example:mkbdsp -sp dev_fbclt 3G -bd dev_dbsrv -vadapter vhost4
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