Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1 provides several virtual networking performance improvements, including the addition of following:
Dynamic Single-Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
Extension of Direct I/O and SR-IOV features to non-Primary root domains
InfiniBand device support for SR-IOV features, as well as Ethernet devices
Fault Management Architecture (FMA) blacklisting feature
Recovery mode feature that automatically recovers domain configurations that cannot be booted due to faulty or missing resources
ldmpower command to show per-domain, power-consumption information
Support for VNICs on virtual networks
You can use the Oracle VM Server for SPARC physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversion tool to automatically convert an existing physical system to a virtual system that runs Oracle Solaris 10 in a logical domain on a chip multithreading (CMT) system.
Run the ldmp2v command from a control domain that is running Oracle Solaris 10 or Oracle Solaris 11 to convert one of the following source systems to a logical domain:
Any sun4u SPARC based system that is running at least Solaris 8, Solaris 9, or Oracle Solaris 10
Any sun4v system that is running Oracle Solaris 10, but does not run in a logical domain