Unable to enumerate physical disks for Oracle VM Server 3.0
Dear Oracle VM Experts,
I have made a vanilla installation of Oracle VM Server 3.0 on my pc. After running the Oracle VM Manager I can NOT set up my server pool. The problem is that under "Physical Disks" section of my server, I can't see anything. I did couple of times rescan, restart of the server and still no disks.
The machine I am using has 2x250 GB disks with NO RAID configuration, in total 500GB. The output of fdisk -l on the server renders:
[root@oraclevm ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 28575 29879 10482412+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 29880 30401 4192965 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 29880 30401 4192933+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
What I am trying to achieve is to have all the unused disk space (~450GB) available for storing virtual machines' disks and ISO files. I was able to do it in Oracle VM 2.2. With that regards I have the following questions?
1. Is this situation achievable?
2. If yes how I should set up my disks, partitions, PV, VG, LV, etc. in order to fully utilize my free disk space?
Many thanks for you help,
Anatoli