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98Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions support for Oracle VM Server for SPARCKnown issuesWorkaround: Export VxVM volumes using their block device nodes instead. Oracleis investigating this issue.Oracle (SUN) bug id: 6716365 (disk images on volumes should be exported usingthe ldi interface)This Oracle (Sun) bug is fixed in Oracle (Sun) patch 139562-02.See “Solaris patch requirements” on page 80.Resizing a Veritas Volume Manager volume (exported as a slice or fulldisk) does not dynamically reflect the new size of the volume in theguestOn resizing a VxVM volume exported to a guest, the virtual disk still shows theold size of the volume. The virtual disk drivers do not update the size of thebackend volume after the volume is resized.Oracle has an RFE for this issue (CR 6699271 Dynamic virtual disk sizemanagement).Workaround: The guest must be stopped and rebound for the new size to bereflected.This Oracle (Sun) bug is fixed in Oracle (Sun) patch 139562-02.See “Solaris patch requirements” on page 80.Known issuesThe following section describes some of the known issues of the Oracle VM Serverfor SPARC software and how those known issues affect the functionality of theVeritas Storage Foundation products.Guest-based known issuesThe following are new known issues in this release of Veritas Storage Foundationand High Availability Solutions Support for Oracle VM Server for SPARC.Encapsulating a non-scsi disk may failTrying to encapsulate a non-scsi disk which is a slice of a disk or a disk exportedas a slice may fail with the following error:VxVM vxslicer ERROR V-5-1-599 Disk layout does not support swap shrinkingVxVM vxslicer ERROR V-5-1-5964 Unsupported disk layout.
Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions support for Oracle VM Server for SPARCKnown issues99Encapsulation requires at least 0 sectors of unused space either at thebeginning or end of the disk drive.This is because while installing the OS on such a disk, it is required to specify theentire size of the backend device as the size of slice "s0", leaving no free space onthe disk.Boot disk encapsulation requires free space at the end or the beginning of the diskfor it to proceed ahead.Guest domain node shows only one PGR key instead of twoafter rejecting the other node in the clusterFor configuration information concerning the guest domain node shows only 1PGR key instead of 2 after rejecting the other node in the cluster:See Figure 4-4 on page 76.This was observed while performing a series of reboots of the primary and alternateI/O domains on both the physical hosts housing the two guests. At some pointone key is reported missing on the coordinator disk.This issue is under investigation. The vxfen driver can still function as long asthere is 1 PGR key. This is a low severity issue as it will not cause any immediateinterruption. Symantec will update this issue when the root cause is found forthe missing key.Disk paths intermittently go offline while performing I/O on amirrored volumeThis was observed while testing the SFCFS stack inside a 4-node guest clusterwhere each node gets its network and virtual disk resources from multiple I/Odomains within the same host.See “Supported configurations with SFCFS and multiple I/O Domains” on page 75.While performing I/O on a mirrored volume inside a guest, it was observed thata vdisk would go offline intermittently even when at least one I/O domain whichprovided a path to that disk was still up and running.Symantec recommends that you install Solaris 10 Update 7 that contains the fixfor Oracle (Sun) bug id 6742587 (vds can ACK a request twice).Deadlock between DMP kernel and VDC driver during volumecreationThis was observed by Oracle during their interoperatability testing of 5.0 MP3.The deadlock happens when creating a mirrored VxVM volume, while there is
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