ZFS and grown disk space

Hello,
I installed Solaris 10 x86 10/09 using ZFS in vSphere, and the disk image was expanded from 15G to 18G.
But Solaris still sees 15G.
How can I convince it to make notice of the expanded disk image, how can I grow the rpool?
Searched a lot, but all documents give answers about adding a disk, but not if the space is additionally allocated on the same disk.
-- Nick

nikitelli wrote:
if that is really true what you are saying, then this is really disappointing!
Solaris can so many tricks, and in this specific case it drops behind linux, aix and even windows?
Not even growfs can help?Growfs will expand a UFS filesystem so that it can address additional space in its container (slice, metadevice, volume, etc.). ZFS doesn't need that particular tool, it can expand itself based on the autogrow property.
The problem is that the OS does not make the LUN expansion visible so that other things (like the filesystems) can use that space. Years and years ago, "disks" were static things that you didn't expect to change size. That assumption is hard coded into the Solaris disk label mechanics. I would guess that redoing things to remove that assumption isn't the easiest task.
If you have an EFI label, it's easier (still not great), but fewer steps. But you can't boot from an EFI disk, so you have to solve the problem with a VTOC/SMI label if you want it to work for boot disks.
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