Provisioning Veritas Volume Manager volumes as boot disks for guest virtual machines
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Provisioning Veritas Volume Manager volumes as boot disks for guest virtual machines

The following procedure outlines how to provision a Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) volume as a boot disk for guest virtual machines.

The example host is sys1 the VM guest is guest1. The prompts in each step show in which domain to run the command.

To provision Veritas Volume Manager volumes as boot disks for guest virtual machines

  1. On the host, create a VxVM volume. Use the size that is recommended by your Linux documentation. In this example, a 16GB volume is created:
    sys1# vxassist -g boot_dg make bootdisk-vol 16g
  2. Follow the recommended steps in your Linux documentation to install and boot a VM guest, and use the virtual disk as the boot disk.
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