Logical Domains (LDoms) 1.0.1 Release Notes

Logical Domains (LDoms) 1.0.1 Release Notes

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Logical Domains (LDoms) 1.0.1 Release Notes

Changes for This Release

Supported Platforms

Need Updated Hardware for Netra CP3060 Blade to Support LDoms 1.0.1 Software Release

Required, Recommended, and Optional Software and Required Patches

Required Software

Recommended Software

Optional Software

Required Solaris 10 11/06 OS Patches

Required System Firmware Patches

Location of Patches

Location of Documentation

Supported Network Adapters

To Determine If a Network Adapter Is GLDv3-Compliant

Cards Not Supported

Memory Size Requirements

Software That Can Be Used With the Logical Domains Manager

System Controller Software That Interacts With Logical Domains 1.0.1 Software

General Notes and Issues

Limited Number of Logical Domain Configurations Can Be Stored on the SC

Some Features Are Not Available Currently on System Firmware 6.4.x and 6.5.x for Netra T2000 Servers

Rebooting the Control Domain When Guest Domains are Running

Cleanly Shutting Down and Power Cycling a Logical Domains System

Logical Domain Channels (LDCs) and Logical Domains

Memory Size Requested Might Be Different From Memory Allocated

Dynamic Reconfiguration of Virtual CPUs With Cryptographic Units

Split PCI Regresses in FMA Functionality From Non–Logical Domains Systems

Logical Domain Variable Persistence

Logical Domains Manager Restart During ldm Command Execution

To Power Off a System With Multiple Active Domains

To Power Cycle the System

Bugs Affecting Logical Domains 1.0.1 Software

Logical Domains Manager Can Erroneously Assign an Offline CPU to a Logical Domain (Bug ID 6431107)

Currently Cannot Install Guest Domains From DVDs (Bug ID 6434615)

Some format(1M) Command Options Do Not Work With Virtual Disks (Bug IDs 6437722 and 6531557)

Virtual Disk Should Support Multihost Disk Control Operations (Bug ID 6437772)

Logical Domains Manager Should Validate Disk Paths and Network Devices (Bug IDs 6447740 and 6541323)

Network Devices

One CPU Might Show 100% Utilization Under Heavy Network Loads (Bug ID 6492023)

Hang Can Occur With Guest OS in Simultaneous Operations (Bug ID 6497796)

Rebooting Multiple Guest Domains Continuously Can Cause OS to Hang (Bug ID 6501039)

Panic Message on the Control Domain When Syncing a Guest Domain (Bug ID 6501168)

Behavior of the ldm stop-domain Command Needs to Be Improved in Some Cases (Bug ID 6506494)

Cannot Set Security Keys With Logical Domains Running (Bug ID 6510214)

The vntsd(1M) Command Needs to Validate the listen-to IP Address (Bug ID 6512526)

Virtual Disk Server Should Export ZFS Volumes as Full Disks (Bug ID 6514091)

The add-vnet Subcommand Allows a Virtual Network Device With the Same MAC Address as Another Logical Domain (Bug ID 6515615)

Certain ldm Subcommands Return Misleading Messages If One or More Arguments Are Missing (Bug IDs 6519049 and 6573220)

Disks Managed by Veritas DMP Cannot Be Exported to Other Domains (Bug ID 6522993)

CPU DR Is Disabled For All Logical Domains That Have MAU Cryptographic Units Bound (Bug ID 6525647)

Attempt to Store Boot Command Variable During a Reboot Can Time Out (Bug ID 6527622)

Disk Recovery Fails in a Service Domain When the Disk Device Is Actively Used as a Virtual Disk (Bug ID 6528156)

When Running Cluster Software, Selecting the ok Prompt Upon a Logical Domain Shutdown Can Cause Panic (Bug ID 6528556)

ZFS Volumes Need to Have the Same Version of Solaris Software Running on the Service Domain and the Guest Domain (Bug ID 6528974)

The Virtual Switch, When Plumbed and in Program Mode, Should Write Its MAC Address Into Hardware (Bug ID 6530331)

Page Retirement Does Not Persist in the Logical Domains Environment (Bug IDs 6531030 and 6531058)

Aggregated Network Devices Are Not Supported by the Virtual Switch (Bug ID 6531266)

Fault Manager Daemon (fmd) Does Not Correctly Recover From a Logical Domain Channel Reset (Bug ID 6533308)

Using the server-secure.driver With an NIS-enabled System, LDoms or No LDoms (Bug ID 6533696)

Network Performance Is Substantially Worse in a Logical Domain Guest Than in a Non-LDoms Configuration (Bug ID 6534438)

Logical Domain Time-of-Day Changes Do Not Persist Across a Power Cycle of the Host (Bug ID 6536572)

Errors to Buses in a Split-PCI Configuration Might Not Get Logged (Bug ID 6542295)

The intrstat(1M) Command Is Not Supported for Virtual Devices on a Logical Domain (Bug ID 6543601)

During Boot or Installation Over a WAN, Miniroot Download Time Can Increase Significantly (Bug ID 6543749)

Emulex-based Fibre Channel Host Adapters Not Supported in Split-PCI Configuration on Sun Fire T1000 Servers (Bug ID 6544004)

Adding Non-Existent Disk Device to Single-CPU Domain Causes Hang (Bug ID 6544946)

Watchdog Timeout Can Be Triggered by Heavy Network Loads (Bug ID 6545470)

Do Not Use Control-C From the prtdiag(1M) Command (Bug ID 6552999)

Some luxadm(1M) Commands Can Fail to Work on Devices That Have Been Assigned to Guest Domain (Bug ID 6553809)

Do Not Specify a Virtual Switch Interface as a Network Device (Bug ID 6554177)

Occasionally, a Network Installation Hangs on a Guest Domain (Bug ID 6555461)

Occasionally During Solaris OS Reboot, You Can Receive an Unsuccessful Read or Write Message (Bug ID 6560890)

The prtdiag and prtpicl Utilities Do Not Work in Guest Domains (Bug ID 6563508)

Virtual Disk Client Needs an I/O Timeout (Bug ID 6566086)

Rarely, a Hard Hang Can Occur After Resetting or Rebooting the Control Domain (Bug ID 6567907)

Under Certain Circumstances, Reverting to a Configuration Previously Saved on the SC Can Cause the Logical Domains Manager to Crash (Bug ID 6571091)

Virtual Disk Service Should Support Unformatted Disks (Bug ID 6575050)

Guests Can Lose Access to Virtual Disk Services if I/O Domain Is Rebooted (Bug ID 6575216)

Some Virtual Disks Do Not Have a Device ID (Bug ID 6578918)

Guest Domain Can Lose Connection to the Virtual Switch When the Service Domain is Rebooted (Bug ID 6581720)

Some Commands Read Old bootmode Settings (Bug ID 6585340)

Shutting Down the System in Certain Ways Can Result in Two Warnings (Bug ID 6586271)

No Error Message If System Controller Cannot Save Logical Domain Configurations Because of Lack of Space (Bug ID 6587522)

Do Not Use Non-Numeric Values for Port Numbers in ldm Commands (Bug ID 6590848)

Virtual Disk Server Prints File Lookup Error During Service Domain Boot (Bug ID 6591399)

Logical Domains Manager Needs to Retire Resources on a Guest Domain After a Panic and Reboot (Bug ID 6591844)

Logical Domains Manager Accepts Multiple Entries of I/O Constraints (Bug ID 6591905)

The Options: true false Menu Interrupts an OpenBoot PROM Reset (Bug ID 6594395)

After a resetsc Command, Changing OpenBoot PROM nvram Parameters Does Not Take Effect (Bug ID 6596594)

Console Ports Dynamically Assigned When a Logical Domain Is Bound Become Hard Constraints If the Logical Domains Manager Subsequently Restarts (Bug ID 6596652)

Removing I/O Buses Followed by Adding CPUs Can Cause the Hypervisor to Stop or the Logical Domains Manager to Dump Core (Bug ID 6597761)

Environmental Status Output From the prtdiag -v Command Can Be Missing After an SP Warm Reset (Bug ID 6601790)

Logical Domains Manager Can Crash If Asked to Report the State of a Logical Domain Immediately After Starting It (Bug ID 6602322)

Guest Domain With More Than Four Virtual Networks on the Same Network Using DHCP Can Become Unresponsive (Bug ID 6603974)

Logical Domains Manager Is Not Accepting Empty Variable Values From the eeprom(1M) Command (Bug ID 6604094)

To Force the Primary Domain to Stop at the ok Prompt

To Force All Other Domains to Stop at the ok Prompt

To Reset Your System

To Disable the PRI Pseudo Driver

LDoms Issues That Apply Only to Solaris 10 11/06 OS

Removing or Updating a Virtual Switch Can Cause Networking to Fail

Fault Manager Daemon (fmd) Dumps Core When Control Domain Has Only a Single Strand (Bug ID 6604253)

LDoms Bugs Fixed for Solaris 10 8/07 OS

Networking

Disk

General

Logical Domains (LDoms) 1.0.1 Release Notes

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