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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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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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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 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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