*** I figured this out, I put the solution for this below.
I added an additional hard disk to a Solaris 11 virtual machine. I added this hard disk with the VMware Workstation software. The steps I used to add the hard disk are:
- Edit Virtual Machine while its shutdown
- Add then selected Hard disk
- Next then selected SCSI / Independent and Persistent
- Next
- Create a New Virtual Disk
- Next
- Set it to a size of 2GB / Allocate all Disk Space Now / Store Virtual Disk as a Single Image
- Next
- Finish
The above steps go smooth, the disk displays in VMware, then I start up the virtual machine and sign in as a user who is able to sudo to root. I run the command "sudo format"
and it displays the originally created hard disk that the OS is installed on and the new drive that I just created that is 2GB. But when I navigate to the /dev/rdsk directory, the new 2GB drive is not displaying at this
location. This is my question, why doesn't the new drive display in the /dev/rdsk directory? what steps are still needed to get this process completed?
*** Solution ***
I figured this out. The solution that worked for me was running the following commands:
>> sudo zpool create <directory name> <disk name: eg: c8t1d0>
>> sudo zfs create <directory name>/fs
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