We have been experimenting with mounting san storage with vxfs filesystems in an ngz and there appears to be a couple of ways to accomplish this.
The FAQ links to a Symantec doc ( http://sfdoccentral.symantec.com/sf/5.0MP3/solaris/html/vxvm_admin/apbs07.htm) that does it by adding a device to the zonecfg. This was problematic as our ngz doesn't didn't have the necessary Veritas packages and wasn't able to mount a vxfs filesystem. I haven't yet been able to determine if this was because of how the software was installed in the gz or if they are specifically excluded from the ngz. It could also be done with an lofs by pointing to an already mounted vxfs in the gz. Yet another Symantec document ( http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/vascont/59.html) shows the file system from the gz being directly mounted into the ngz. i.e. from the global zone boot the ngz and then "mount -F vxfs /dev/vx/dsk/<dg>/<volume> /<zonepath>/root/<mount>" It took me a while to get my head around this but it works. The only obvious problem I can see is that if the ngz reboots it loses its storage. There doesn't appear to be a way to automatically get it remounted. Is anyone else doing something similar? If so what has been your experience/recommendation? Derek
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