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To view or change the current virtual machine SCSI configuration, select SCSI in the Device column of the left-hand pane of the configuration Settings window. This opens the SCSI configuration window similar to the one shown below.

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​​From this window, you can create virtual disk and tape container files using the Create Virtual Storage button. You can also attach virtual storage devices (both physical devices and container files) to the virtual machine (Add button). When selecting an existing virtual storage device, you can modify edit or remove it (Edit and Remove buttons are only visible if a device is selected) .

(info)  The Create Virtual Storage option is also available in the Tools menu of the Charon-SSP Manager. The functions provided are identical to the functions provided via the Virtual Machine Settings window shown above.

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​Creating a New Virtual Disk Container File

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To create a virtual disk container file, follow the instructions below:

  1. Select the virtual disk type from the drop-down list Virtual disk type.

    • If you select a preconfigured Virtual disk type the Block number field is updated to match that model.

    • If you specify the type of Custom, enter the container file size as a number of 512-byte blocks at the field Block number. The size of the custom disk is shown in KB/KiB, MB/MiB, or GB/GiB depending on the configured number of blocks.

  2. Specify a name for the virtual disk container file in the field Virtual disk name.

  3. Select the location on the host filesystem for the container file by clicking on the location selection button and selecting the correct path. The default is different depending on the Charon-SSP product. For Charon-SSP AWS, it is recommended to store virtual disk and tape containers on a separate EBS volume.

  4. Click on Create to create the virtual disk container file. Depending on the size of the container file, this may take some time.

(warning)  Before the disk can be used by the Solaris guest system, it must be added to the system configuration and formatted/labeled by the Solaris guest according to the customer specific requirements.

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Creating a New Virtual Tape Container File

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Should the devices not exist after adding a virtual tape drive, boot the emulated SPARC guest system with the -r (reconfigure) parameter. Example: boot disk0 -r.

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Adding or Editing a Virtual SCSI Device

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Note

Charon-SSP does not place any restrictions on the bus and SCSI target ID used for emulated SCSI devices, e.g., a virtual CD-ROM. However,

  • some versions of Solaris may expect the boot CD-ROM device to be on the external bus (4U onlyif available) and SCSI ID 6, and
  • the emulated Charon-SSP/4V console environment expects the CD-ROM device on the internal bus and SCSI ID 6.

If you encounter the problem that the CD-ROM is not found when trying to boot from it, verify its expected location in the OBP environment (using the devalias command).


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The following table lists the fields in the Add/Edit SCSI Device configuration window and describes their use.

Add/Edit virtual SCSI device configuration fields

FieldsDescription

SCSI bus

Specify either the Primary SCSI Bus or the External SCSI Bus.

Please note: Charon-SSP/4M has only one SCSI bus.

SCSI ID

SCSI device target ID:

  • Charon-SSP/4M: Acceptable values are a 3-bit narrow SCSI device IDs between 0 and 7.

  • Charon-SSP/4U and Charon-SSP/4V: Acceptable values are a 4-bit wide SCSI device IDs between 0 and 15.

(warning) The SCSI target ID 7 is reserved for the SCSI host bus adapter. It cannot be used for a user-configurable SCSI device.

LUN ID

SCSI device LUN ID. A SCSI device is identified by a combination of bus, target ID (SCSI ID), and LUN ID. This parameter must be configured to match the storage device configuration. Valid IDs are 0 through 7. Default value is 0.

(warning) The LUNs configured for one SCSI target ID must belong to the same virtual device type.

Removable

Default: OFF. If enabled, the emulator will start even if the device/file does not exist on the host.

SCSI device type 

Drop-down list of configurable device types. Available device types:

  • Virtual Disk: Virtual disk device backed by a container file.

  • Virtual CDROM: Virtual CD-ROM device backed by a container file.

  • Virtual Tape: Virtual tape device backed by a container file.

  • Physical Disk:  Virtual disk device mapped to a physical disk or a physical disk partition on the host system.

SCSI device path

Click on the path button to specify the location of the virtual SCSI device. This will open a file browser. To sort the file browser display by name, click on the corresponding heading.

Select an appropriate device or file using the file browser, or type the correct name in the file name field. 

Note: if you manually enter a device name instead of selecting a device from the file browser window, make sure that the file/device exists (relative to the path of the opened file browser) or is set to removable.

The list below shows sample device paths for each SCSI device type option:

Device type

Sample device path

Virtual Disk

/usr/local/vm/lela/scsi0.vdisk

Virtual CDROM

/usr/local/share/iso/sunos_4.1.4.iso

Virtual Tape

/usr/local/vm/lela/scsi1.vtape

Physical Disk

/dev/sda



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Physical Disk Parameters on Charon-SSP

The Charon-SSP virtual machines offer additional options when adding physical disks as virtual SCSI devices. The windows for adding a new device and for editing an existing device contain the same fields. The configuration windows are different for Charon-SSP/4U(+)/4V and Charon-SSP/4M because only Charon-SSP/4U (+)and Charon-SSP/4V support a second SCSI bus. The two different configuration windows are shown below:

Add physical disk on Charon-SSP/4U

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Add physical disk on Charon-SSP/4M

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The following table describes the additional parameters available for physical disks on Charon-SSP:

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(warning)  If the virtual SCSI storage device is attached to a container file, the file itself is not removed with the configuration.

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