Hello:

Has anyone ever tried this and succeeded or found a work-around?

Configuration:

- Solaris 10 x86 (HW 06/06 patched) implemented inside VMWare Server 1.0.1
- Veritas Storage Foundation 4 Basic (latest) inside the same Virtual machine.
- Provision several VMWare based "*.vmdk" disks for Volume Manager to use.

The problem is that Volume Manager complains that "Disk sector size is not
supported" when I try to initialize the VMWare based disks for use with
Volume Manager. See below:

VxVM vxdisk ERROR V-5-1-5433 Device c2t3d0s2: init failed:Disk sector size is not supported

bash-3.00# vxdisk list
DEVICE       TYPE            DISK         GROUP        STATUS
c0t0d0s2     auto:none       -            -            online invalid
c0t1d0s2     auto:sliced     -            -            online
c1t1d0s2     auto:sliced     -            -            online
c2t2d0s2     auto:sliced     -            -            online
c2t3d0s2     auto:sliced     -            -            online

bash-3.00# ./vxdisksetup -i c2t3d0
VxVM vxdisk ERROR V-5-1-5433 Device c2t3d0s2: init failed:
        Disk sector size is not supported
bash-3.00# vxconfigd
VxVM vxconfigd ERROR V-5-1-7840 cannot open /dev/vx/config: Device is already open

bash-3.00# vxdmpadm listctlr all
CTLR-NAME       ENCLR-TYPE      STATE      ENCLR-NAME
=====================================================
c2              OTHER_DISKS     ENABLED      OTHER_DISKS
c1              OTHER_DISKS     ENABLED      OTHER_DISKS
c0              OTHER_DISKS     ENABLED      OTHER_DISKS
bash-3.00#
bash-3.00# vxdisk list c2t3d0
Device:    c2t3d0s2
devicetag: c2t3d0
type:      auto
info:      format=simple,privoffset=4,pubslice=7,privslice=7
flags:     online ready private autoconfig invalid
pubpaths:  block=/dev/vx/dmp/c2t3d0s7 char=/dev/vx/rdmp/c2t3d0s7
Multipathing information:
numpaths:   1
c2t3d0s2        state=enabledbash-3.00# vxdisk list c2t3d0
Device:    c2t3d0s2
devicetag: c2t3d0
type:      auto
info:      format=simple,privoffset=4,pubslice=7,privslice=7
flags:     online ready private autoconfig invalid
pubpaths:  block=/dev/vx/dmp/c2t3d0s7 char=/dev/vx/rdmp/c2t3d0s7
Multipathing information:
numpaths:   1
c2t3d0s2        state=enabled