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1. Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.0 Release Notes
Required and Recommended Oracle Solaris OS Versions
Required Software to Enable Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.0 Features
Required and Recommended System Firmware Patches
Minimum Version of Software Required
Direct I/O Hardware and Software Requirements
PCIe SR-IOV Hardware and Software Requirements
Location of the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.0 Software
Software That Can Be Used With the Logical Domains Manager
System Controller Software That Interacts With Logical Domains Software
Upgrading to the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.0 Software
Deprecated Features in the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.0 Release
Upgrading From Oracle Solaris 10 OS Older Than Oracle Solaris 10 5/08 OS
Service Processor and System Controller Are Interchangeable Terms
Logical Domain Channels and Logical Domains
Booting a Large Number of Domains
Cleanly Shutting Down and Power Cycling a Logical Domains System
Memory Size Requested Might Be Different From Memory Allocated
Logical Domains Variable Persistence
Oracle's Sun SNMP Management Agent Does Not Support Multiple Domains
ldmp2v convert Command: VxVM Warning Messages During Boot
Oracle Hard Partitioning Requirements for Software Licenses
Upgrade Option Not Presented When Using ldmp2v prepare -R
Block of Dynamically Added Memory Can Be Dynamically Removed Only as a Whole
ldmp2v Command: ufsdump Archiving Method Is No Longer Used
Only One CPU Configuration Operation Is Permitted to Be Performed During a Delayed Reconfiguration
Version Restrictions for Migration
SPARC M5 and SPARC T5 Support for cpu-arch=generic Migration
CPU Restrictions for Migration
Oracle VM Server for SPARC MIB Issues
snmptable Command Does Not Work With the Version 2 or Version 3 Option
Bugs Affecting the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.0 Software
send_mondo_set: timeout Panic Occurs When Using the ldm stop Command on a Guest Domain After Stress
Dynamically Adding a Faulted Strand to a Domain Might Result in a Panic
Subdevices Under a PCIe Device Revert to an Unassigned Name
SPARC M5-32: panic: mpo_cpu_add: Cannot read MD
SPARC M5-32: Root Complex Failover Might Lead to an Incorrect Direct I/O Guest Domain Configuration
SPARC M5-32: Issue With Disks That Are Accessible Through Multiple Direct I/O Paths
ixgbevf Device in SR-IOV Domains Might Become Disabled When Rebooting the primary Domain
ILOM Power Capper Should Synchronize Adjustment Updates with /SYS/VPS Updates
A Guest Domain Cannot Boot When IOV-Loaned Devices Are Disabled
mutex_enter: bad mutex Panic in primary Domain During a Reboot or Shutdown
SPARC M5-32: LSI-SAS Controller Is Incorrectly Exported With SR-IOV
Cannot Set a Jumbo MTU for sxge Virtual Functions In the primary Domain of a SPARC T5-1B
ldmd Is Unable to Set the mac-addr and alt-mac-addrs Property Values for the sxge Device
ldm list-io -d Output for an sxge Device on SPARC T5-1B Is Missing Two Properties
Additional Restrictions for Migration
ldmconfig Fails: Fix for Bug ID 15972394 Precludes Unmodified factory-default Configuration
CPU DR of Very Large Number of Virtual CPUs Can Appear to Fail
SPARC T4-4: Unable to Bind a Guest Domain
Guest Domain Can Panic When CPU DR is Performed After a Cross-CPU Migration
Guest Domain Fails to Boot When the Memory is Highly Fragmented
CPU Dynamic Reconfiguration of Available CPUs Causes an lpl_topo_verify fail -5 Panic
Root Domains Cannot Have Dependencies on Other Root Domains
Guest Domain Panics After a Migration When Cores are Added
Guest Domain Panics While Changing the threading Property Value From max-throughput to max-ipc
The Control Domain Hangs on Reboot With Two Active Direct I/O Domains
ldm rm-io Should Accept --dry-run as an Alias for -n
Migration Problems Arise Between Systems That Have Different Firmware Versions Installed
No Error Message When a Memory DR Add is Partially Successful
Unable to Stop a Domain With the ldm stop or ldm stop -f Command
PCIe Fabrics Are Not Accessible by Guest Domains When 11 or More Domains Have PCIe Devices
Re-creating a Domain That Has PCIe Virtual Functions From an XML File Fails
ldm init-system Command Cannot Correctly Re-create a Domain That Has Virtual Function Devices
Control Domain Requires the Lowest Core in the System
ldmd Daemon Does Not Come Online
After Canceling a Migration, ldm Commands That Are Run on the Target System Are Unresponsive
Some Emulex Cards Do Not Work When Assigned to I/O Domain
Guest Domain Panics When Running the cputrack Command During a Migration to a SPARC T4 System
Oracle Solaris 11: DRM Stealing Reports Oracle Solaris DR Failure and Retries
Limit the Maximum Number of Virtual Functions That Can Be Assigned to a Domain
Guest Domain That Uses Cross-CPU Migration Reports Random Uptimes After the Migration Completes
Version 8.2.0 of the System Firmware Contains a New Version of the scvar Database
ldm remove-io of PCIe Cards That Have PCIe-to-PCI Bridges Should Be Disallowed
ldm stop Command Might Fail If Issued Immediately After an ldm start Command
init-system Does Not Restore Named Core Constraints for Guest Domains From Saved XML Files
Using ldm set-io to Change pvid Value Twice in Succession Might Cause a Configuration Failure
Vague SR-IOV Error Message: Create vf failed
Partial Core primary Fails to Permit Whole-Core DR Transitions
ldm list-io Command Shows the UNK or INV State After Boot
Removing a Large Number of CPUs From a Guest Domain Fails
Cannot Use Oracle Solaris Hot-Plug Operations to Hot-Remove a PCIe Endpoint Device
Virtual Disk Validation Fails for a Physical Disk With No Slice 2
All ldm Commands Hang When Migrations Have Missing Shared NFS Resources
Logical Domains Agent Service Does Not Come Online If the System Log Service Does Not Come Online
Kernel Deadlock Causes Machine to Hang During a Migration
Virtual CPU Timeout Failures During DR
Migration Failure Reason Not Reported When the System MAC Address Clashes With Another MAC Address
Simultaneous Migration Operations in "Opposite Direction" Might Cause ldm to Hang
Removing a Large Number of CPUs From the Control Domain Fails
System Running the Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 OS That Has the Elastic Policy Set Might Hang
pkgadd Fails to Set ACL Entries on /var/svc/manifest/platform/sun4v/ldmd.xml
SPARC T3-1: Issue With Disks That Are Accessible Through Multiple Direct I/O Paths
An In-Use MAC Address Can be Reassigned
ldmconfig Cannot Create a Domain Configuration on the SP
Uncooperative Oracle Solaris Domain Migration Can Be Blocked If cpu0 Is Offline
Memory DR Is Disabled Following a Canceled Migration
Dynamic Reconfiguration of MTU Values of Virtual Network Devices Sometimes Fails
Confusing Migration Failure Message for Real Address Memory Bind Failures
Dynamically Removing All the Cryptographic Units From a Domain Causes SSH to Terminate
PCI Express Dual 10-Gigabit Ethernet Fiber Card Shows Four Subdevices in ldm list-io -l Output
ldm Commands Are Slow to Respond When Several Domains Are Booting
Oracle Solaris 11: Zones Configured With an Automatic Network Interface Might Fail to Start
Oracle Solaris 10: Virtual Network Devices Are Not Created Properly on the Control Domain
Newly Added NIU/XAUI Adapters Are Not Visible to Host OS If Logical Domains Is Configured
I/O Domain or Guest Domain Panics When Booting From e1000g
Explicit Console Group and Port Bindings Are Not Migrated
Migration Does Not Fail If a vdsdev on the Target Has a Different Back End
Migration Can Fail to Bind Memory Even If the Target Has Enough Available
Logical Domains Manager Does Not Start If the Machine Is Not Networked and an NIS Client Is Running
Logical Domains Manager Displays Migrated Domains in Transition States When They Are Already Booted
Cannot Connect to Migrated Domain's Console Unless vntsd Is Restarted
Logical Domains Manager Can Take Over 15 Minutes to Shut Down a Domain
scadm Command Can Hang Following an SC or SP Reset
Simultaneous Netinstallation of Multiple Domains Fails When in a Common Console Group
ldc_close: (0xb) unregister failed, 11 Warning Messages
Guest Domain With Too Many Virtual Networks on the Same Network Using DHCP Can Become Unresponsive
Cannot Set Security Keys With Logical Domains Running
Behavior of the ldm stop-domain Command Can Be Confusing
ldm(1M) Man Page: Dynamic Creation of Virtual Functions Is Not Supported
ldm(1M) Man Page: Only ldm add-spconfig -r Performs a Manual Recovery
Oracle VM Server for SPARC Management Information Base (MIB) software can help you enable third-party applications to perform remote monitoring and a few control operations. For more information, see Chapter 16, Using the Oracle VM Server for SPARC Management Information Base Software, in Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.0 Administration Guide.
This section details the software that is compatible with and can be used with the Logical Domains software. Be sure to check the software documentation or your platform documentation to find the version number of the software that is available for your version of the Logical Domains software and your platform.
Oracle VM Manager is a web-based user interface that you can use to manage the Oracle VM environment. Earlier versions of this user interface managed only the Oracle VM Server x86 software, but starting with Oracle VM Manager 3.2.1 and Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.0, you can also manage the Oracle VM Server for SPARC software. For more information about Oracle VM Manager, see the Oracle VM Documentation.
SunVTS functionality is available in the control domain and guest domains on certain Logical Domains software releases and certain platforms. SunVTS is a validation test suite that provides a comprehensive diagnostic tool that tests and validates Oracle's Sun hardware by verifying the connectivity and proper functioning of most hardware controllers and devices on Oracle's Sun servers. For more information about SunVTS, refer to SunVTS 7.0 Software.
Explorer Data Collector can be used with the Logical Domains Manager software enabled on the control domain. Explorer is a diagnostic data collection tool. The tool comprises shell scripts and a few binary executables. For more information, see Oracle Explorer User’s Guide.
Oracle Solaris Cluster software can be used in a guest domain with some restrictions. See the Oracle Solaris Cluster documentation for more information about any restrictions and about the Oracle Solaris Cluster software in general. Starting with the Logical Domains 1.2 release and the Oracle Solaris Cluster 11/09 release, you can also manage logical domains as a resource by using the Oracle Solaris Cluster failover agent.
Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center enables you to manage physical and virtual system resources. This solution simplifies resource discovery and monitoring, provides operating system and firmware provisioning, performs comprehensive update and patch management, manages virtual environments such as Oracle Solaris Containers and Logical Domains, and supports hardware management from power up to production. For more information, see http://www.oracle.com/us/products/enterprise-manager/index.html.
The following system controller (SC) software interacts with the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.0 software:
Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) 3.0 is the system management firmware that you can use to monitor, manage, and configure SPARC T-Series and SPARC M5 systems. ILOM is preinstalled on these platforms and can be used on supported servers with the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.0 software enabled. Refer to Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager 3.0 User's Guide for features and tasks that are common to Oracle's Sun rack-mounted servers or blade servers that support ILOM. Other user documents present ILOM features and tasks that are specific to the server platform that you are using. You can find the ILOM platform-specific information within the documentation set that accompanies your system.
Netra Data Plane Software Suite is a complete board software package solution. The software provides an optimized rapid development and runtime environment on top of multithread partitioning firmware for Sun CMT platforms. The Logical Domains Manager contains some ldm subcommands (add-vdpcs, rm-vdpcs, add-vdpcc, and rm-vdpcc) for use with this software. For more information about this software, see the documentation.
Fujitsu M10 Systems eXtended System Control Facility (XSCF) is the system management firmware that you can use to monitor, manage, and configure Fujitsu M10 systems. XSCF is preinstalled on these systems and can be used with the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.0 software enabled. For more information about this software, refer to Fujitsu M10 Systems System Operation and Administration Guide and Fujitsu M10 Systems XSCF Reference Manual.