Mount volume group(OnApp)

Question

I am attempting to get OnApp setup in a lab using the following documents: OnApp Installation Guide

I am one step away from success and to my knowledge based on the information given and my(limited) understanding of LVM what is being asked is not possible. Data Store Instructions says to create a PV and then create a VG, I have done both of these steps and can see that it was successful, however the 'datastore' must be mounted on the hypervisor.

This is a Xen hypervisor which to my understanding will create a logical volume for each VM so I shouldn't create an LV myself.

The output from lvs, pvs and vgs seems to be correct however I have hit a wall here. Any guidance is greatly appreciated.

Command Output:

[root@hv1 ~]# lvs
LV       VG         Attr   LSize   Origin Snap%  Move Log Copy%  Convert
LogVol00 VolGroup00 -wi-ao 858.72G
LogVol01 VolGroup00 -wi-ao  72.69G
[root@hv1 ~]# pvs
PV         VG                   Fmt  Attr PSize   PFree
/dev/sda2  VolGroup00           lvm2 a--  931.41G      0
/dev/sdd1  onapp-p3n9zel3zirdlf lvm2 a--  499.94G 499.94G
[root@hv1 ~]# vgs
VG                   #PV #LV #SN Attr   VSize   VFree
VolGroup00             1   2   0 wz--n- 931.41G      0
onapp-p3n9zel3zirdlf   1   0   0 wz--n- 499.94G 499.94G
[root@hv1 ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              14      121601   976655610   8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sdd: 536.8 GB, 536870912000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 65270 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdd1               1       65270   524281243+  8e  Linux LVM


[root@hv1 ~]# ls /dev/ | grep  onapp-p3n9zel3zirdlf
[root@hv1 ~]# ls /dev/mapper/
control  VolGroup00-LogVol00  VolGroup00-LogVol01

**EDIT:**I attempted to create an LV, formatted and mounted it to a folder and still had no luck.
Edit: The issue was not in LVM at all it was an RTFM issue.

Answer 1

you cannot mount a volume group, but you can work with a volume, the volume is the final part of rule

[pv]->[vg]->[lv]->{fs on the volume}