Assigning shared storage(LUNs) for SPARC T4-2 LDOMS

Hi friends,
I have a T4-2 server and need to create 2 LDOM's(solaris 11) in that for Oracle RAC installation. For this I have to assign shared(LUNs) storage from the zfs storage appliance for these 2 LDOM's. Could some one tell me how to do this(step by step) in LDOM.
Thanks in advance
Cheers..
RK

Depending how you configure your server on LDOM side, the procedure can be different. This depends also a little bit from the VM Server version.
More details are available in the sections named "I/O Domain Overview" and "Using Virtual Disks" : http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/vm-sparc-194287.html
Edited by: Pascal Kreyer - Oracle on May 5, 2013 9:29 AM

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