Glossary

Advanced Lights Out Manager chip multithreading, which runs on the system controller and allows you to monitor and control your CMT server

Using the Solaris OS BSM to identify the source of security changes

Setting up authorization using the Solaris OS RBAC

Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet driver on Broadcom BCM57xx devices

Basic Security module

command-line interface

Determining if a system’s configuration is in compliance with a predefined security profile

Name of logical domain configuration saved on the system controller

chip multithreading

To the Logical Domains Manager, constraints are one or more resources you want to have assigned to a particular domain. You either receive all the resources you ask to be added to a domain or you get none of them, depending upon the available resources.

Domain that creates and manages other logical domains and services

central processing unit

Control Word Queue; cryptographic unit for Sun UltraSPARC T2-based platforms

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

Dynamic Multipathing (Veritas)

dynamic reconfiguration

dynamic reconfiguration daemon for Logical Domains Manager (Solaris 10 OS)

Domain Services module (Solaris 10 OS)

driver for Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit family of network interface controllers

extensible firmware interface

Encoding Table Management module (Solaris 10 OS)

Fiber Channel Arbitrated Loop

Fault Management Architecture

Fault Manager daemon (Solaris 10 OS)

File Transfer Protocol

Uses services from the I/O and service domains and is managed by the control domain.

Generic LAN Driver version 3.

Modifying Solaris OS configuration to improve security

hard disk drive

Firmware layer interposed between the operating system and the hardware layer

I/O devices, such as internal disks and PCI-Express (PCI-E) controllers and their attached adapters and devices

Infiniband

Domain that has direct ownership of and direct access to physical I/O devices and that shares those devices to other logical domains in the form of virtual devices

input/output control call

Internet Protocol

Internet Protocol Network Multipathing

kernel asynchronous input/output

kilobyte

kernel update

local-area network

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

logical domain channel

Logical Domain Manager utility

Logical Domains Manager daemon

Discrete logical grouping with its own operating system, resources, and identity within a single computer system

Provides a CLI to create and manage logical domains and allocate resources to domains

media access control address, which LDoms can automatically assign or you can assign manually

Modular Arithmetic Unit; the cryptographic device for Sun UltraSPARC T1–based platforms

megabyte

machine description in the server database

memory unit - default size in bytes, or specify gigabytes (G), kilobytes (K), or megabytes (M). Virtualized memory of the server that can be allocated to guest domains.

Multimode fiber

Management Information Base

Installing the minimum number of core Solaris OS package necessary

memory management unit

maximum transmission unit

Network Address Translation

Netra Data Plane Software Suite

Netra Data Plane Software Logical Domain Channel Client. See also vdpcc.

Netra Data Plane Software Logical Domain Channel Service. See also vdpcs.

Network File System

Network Information Services

Network Interface Unit (Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers)

network terminal server

non-volatile random-access memory

Driver for Sun x8 Express 1/10G Ethernet Adapter

operating system

physical address

peripheral component interconnect bus

PCI Express bus

PCI Extended bus

Platform Information and Control Library

PICL daemon

priority

real address

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks

Role-Based Access Control

Remote Procedure Call

system controller, same as system processor

Small Computer System Interface

Logical domain that provides devices, such as virtual switches, virtual console connectors, and virtual disk servers to other logical domains

System Management Agent

Service Management Facility of Solaris 10 OS

Simple Network Management Protocol

system processor, same as system controller

Secure Shell

Secure Shell command

Secure Shell daemon

Sun Validation Test Suite

Solaris Volume Manager

Transmission Control Protocol

User Diagram Protocol

Universal Serial Bus

unshielded twisted pair

virtual blade system controller

virtual console concentrator service with a specific port range to assign to the guest domains

virtual console for accessing system level messages. A connection is achieved by connecting to vconscon service in the control domain at a specific port.

virtual central processing unit. Each of the cores of a server are represented as virtual CPUs. For example, an 8-core Sun Fire T2000 Server has 32 virtual CPUs that can be allocated between the logical domains.

virtual disk client

virtual data plane channel client in an NDPS environment

virtual data plane channel service in an NDPS environment

virtual disks are generic block devices backed by different types of physical devices, volumes, or files.

virtual disk server allows you to import virtual disks into a logical domain.

virtual disk server device is exported by the virtual disk server. The device can be an entire disk, a slice on a disk, a file, or a disk volume.

virtual network device implements a virtual Ethernet device and communicates with other vnet devices in the system using the virtual network switch (vswitch).

virtual network terminal server daemon for Logical Domains consoles (Solaris 10 OS)

virtual network switch that connects the virtual network devices to the external network and also switches packets between them.

volume table of contents

Veritas Volume Manager

wide-area network

eXtreme Fast Path

Extensible Markup Language

Zettabyte File System (Solaris 10 OS)

ZFS storage pool