This section lists the required software and patches for use with LDoms 1.3 software.
To use all the features of LDoms 1.3 software, the operating system on all domains should be at least equivalent to the Solaris 10 10/09 OS. This can be either a fresh or upgrade installation of the following:
OpenSolaris 2009.06 OS
Solaris 10 10/09 OS
The Logical Domains 1.3 software is supported on the OpenSolaris OS starting with the OpenSolaris 2009.06 release. The Logical Domains 1.3 documentation focuses on the use of Logical Domains on the Solaris 10 OS. The same Logical Domains features are available for both the Solaris 10 OS and the OpenSolaris OS. However, you might encounter slight differences when using Logical Domains with the OpenSolaris OS. For more information about the OpenSolaris OS, see the OpenSolaris Information Center.
The following table shows the patches that are required for older releases of the Solaris 10 OS to have the Logical Domains 1.3 functionality. These patches are included in the Solaris 10 10/09 OS.
Table 1–1 Patches for Older OS Versions and Domains Needing a Patch
Patch ID |
Control Domain |
Service-I/O Domain |
Guest Domain |
---|---|---|---|
139946-01 (niumx) |
X |
X |
|
141054-01 (cnex) |
X |
|
|
141444-09 (Solaris 10 10/09 feature kernel update) |
X |
X |
X |
141514-02 (vntsd) |
X |
|
|
142055-03 (vlds) |
X |
X |
|
142245-01 (ncp Crypto) |
X |
X |
X |
This patch list includes the minimum required patch revisions. You can install later revisions of the same patch.
To enable all the LDoms 1.3 features, you must be running at least Version 7.2.7 of the system firmware on both UltraSPARC T2 based servers and UltraSPARC T2 Plus based servers. For information about the required Solaris OS, see Required and Recommended Solaris OS.
It is possible to run the LDoms 1.3 software along with previous revisions of the other software components. For example, you could have differing versions of the Solaris OS on the various domains in a machine. To take advantage of all features of Logical Domains 1.3, ensure that your logical domains run Solaris 10 10/09. Note that you can run different OS releases in each logical domain on the same system. For those domains that run earlier versions of the OS, you might not have all the features that are available in Logical Domains 1.3. However, an alternate upgrade strategy could be to upgrade the control and service domains to Solaris 10 10/09 or to apply the patches listed in Table 1–1, and to continue running the guest domains at the existing patch level.
Following is a matrix of the minimum versions of software required. The LDoms 1.3 package, SUNWldm, can be applied to a system running at least the following versions of software. The minimum software versions are platform specific and depend on the requirements of the CPU in the machine. The minimum Solaris OS version for a given CPU type applies to all domain types (control, service, I/O, and guest).
Table 1–2 Minimum Versions of Software
Supported Server |
System Firmware |
Solaris OS |
---|---|---|
UltraSPARC T2 Plus based servers |
7.2.x |
Solaris 10 8/07 plus patch ID 127111-08 at a minimum |
UltraSPARC T2 based servers |
7.2.x |
Solaris 10 8/07 |
To take advantage of all features of Logical Domains 1.3, ensure that your server runs at least these revisions of the following system firmware patches:
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers
Sun Blade T6320 Server Module
Netra T5220 Server
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 Servers
Netra T5440 Server
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server
Sun Blade T6340 Server Module
You can find the LDoms 1.3 software to download at http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/ldoms/index.jsp.
The Logical Domains 1.3 software no longer comes bundled with SST to provide security services. For more information about SST, see Optional Software.
The LDoms_Manager-1_3.zip file that you download contains the following:
Logical Domains Manager 1.3 software (SUNWldm.v)
ldm(1M) man page in the SUNWldm.v package that gets installed when the package is installed
Installation script for Logical Domains Manager 1.3 software (install-ldm)
Logical Domains Management Information Base (SUNWldmib.v)
Physical to Virtual Migration Tool (SUNWldmp2v)
Configuration Assistant GUI (Configurator.jar)
The directory structure of the zip file is similar to the following:
LDoms_Manager-1_3/ Install/ install-ldm Legal/ 819-0764-10-2209.pdf CDDL.LICENSE Ldoms_MIB_1.0.1_Entitlement.txt Ldoms_MIB_1.0.1_SLA_Entitlement.txt Ldoms_MIB_1.0.1_TranslatedSLA.pdf License_Notice_Translated.pdf Product/ Configurator/ Configurator.jar README.GUI Japanese/ README SUNWjldm.v SUNWjldmp2v SUNWldm.v SUNWldmib.v SUNWldmp2v README |
You can find the required Solaris OS and system firmware patches at the SunSolveSM site:
The Logical Domains 1.3 Administration Guide and these Logical Domains 1.3 Release Notes can be obtained from:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/ldoms
The Sun Logical Domains Wiki contains Best Practices, Guidelines, and Recommendations for deploying LDoms software.
http://wikis.sun.com/display/SolarisLogicalDomains/Home
The Beginners Guide to LDoms: Understanding and Deploying Logical Domains can be used to get a general overview of Logical Domains software. However, the details of the guide specifically apply to the LDoms 1.0 software release and are now out of date for LDoms 1.3 software. The guide can be found at the Sun BluePrintsTM site.