A few command usages from the RHEV administration utility, vxrhevadm, to configure storage for virtual machines.

# ./vxrhevadm -p admin list hosts

Lists details of the virtual machines present on the host.

Host                Address                                 HostID
==============================================================================
linux          veritas.com          e20b2608-1472-4f20-b54f-ae13af4907d4


# ./vxrhevadm -p admin list vms

VM                  State      Host       VMID
===============================================================================
VM1               down         -          2d7f3d3d-adf2-4c70-a138-c646c7e6d771
VM2               down         -          813e5b85-8544-4fb9-a238-6c650cd73e49
VM3               down         -          af3d99e6-d007-4499-8d22-fc21e6f9f3d4
VM4               down         -          af62977b-8ba7-46b0-bca9-3828ca5354b9
VM5               down         -          308a4812-812d-44f5-9171-949025f38ef2
VM6               down         -          565ed6cd-d780-484b-84a6-1a5267a4eb72
VM7               down         -          e0141c6e-03d9-4eb0-8252-97dee1ba0a85
VM8               down         -          d3349764-49d6-4d2a-b8af-eb4068d61379

# ./vxrhevadm -p admin -n VM4 start 
The virtual machine VM4 is started successfully.

# ./vxrhevadm -p admin -n VM4 start 
The virtual machine VM4 is started successfully.


 # ./vxrhevadm -p admin -n VM4 -d /dev/vx/dmp/xiv0_8275 attach 

Power off the virtual machine before you attach  the device.

 # ./vxrhevadm -p admin -n VM4 stop  

The virtual machine VM4 is stopped successfully. 

# ./vxrhevadm -p admin -n VM4 -d /dev/vx/dmp/xiv0_8274 attach

The device /dev/vx/dmp/xiv0_8274 is successfully attached to the virtual machine VM4.


 # ./vxrhevadm -p admin -n VM4 -d /dev/vx/dmp/xiv0_8274 detach

The device /dev/vx/dmp/xiv0_8274 is successfully detached from the virtual machine VM4.


# ./vxrhevadm -p admin -n VM5 -v  /dev/vx/dsk/group/vol3 detach

The device /dev/vx/dsk/group/vol3 is successfully detached from the virtual machine VM5.


 # ./vxrhevadm -p admin -n VM5 -f /mnt/disk.img:raw attach
The device /mnt/disk.img:raw is successfully attached to the virtual machine VM5.


 # ./vxrhevadm -p admin -h linux configure
The permissions of all attached devices present on host Linux are successfully configured.