SPARC M8 and SPARC M7 Servers Administration Guide

Understanding Basic Virtualization Configurations

These topics describe several basic virtualization configurations that you can deploy on these servers to suit your environment's needs.

The example configurations use Oracle Solaris Zones or Oracle VM Server for SPARC to partition and virtualize the system.

• Bare Metal Plus Zones Configuration

• Non-primary Root Domain With Dedicated Root Complex Configuration

• I/O Domains With SR-IOV Configuration

• Single-Service Domain With Virtual I/O Configuration

• Dual-Service Domains With Virtual I/O Configuration

Related Information

• Understanding the I/O Architecture

• Understanding Core Assignments

• Understanding the Memory Resources

• Virtualization Guidelines and Restrictions