An SP selected by Oracle ILOM to manage server resources. When an Active SP can no longer serve this role, the Standby SP assumes the Active role. See also SP and Standby SP.
Automated installer. AI provides a customizable mechanism for installing the Oracle Solaris OS using an installation parameters file called an AI manifest.
Label of the PCIe hot-plug carrier.
CPU, memory, and I/O unit. Each CMIOU contains 1 CMP, 16 DIMM slots, and 1 IOH chip. Each CMIOU also hosts an eUSB device.
Chip multiprocessor. Each CMIOU contains 1 CMP. SPARC M8-8 and SPARC M7-8 servers can contain a maximum of 8 CMPs. The SPARC M7-16 server can contain a maximum of 16 CMPs.
Domain configurable unit. The smallest building block for PDomains. SPARC M8-8 and SPARC M7-8 servers with two PDomains has two DCUs, and SPARC M8-8 and SPARC M7-8 servers with one PDomain has one DCU. Those DCUs are static. Their assignment cannot be changed. The SPARC M7-16 server has four DCUs that you can assign to the host in any one of the four possible PDomains. See also PDomain.
In a multidomain server, Oracle ILOM identifies one SPM from an SPM pair to manage DCU activity. See also SPM, SPP, and DCU.
Fault management architecture. Generates fault indictments from the SP. FMA provides three system activities: error handling, fault diagnosis, and response.
Names used to identify hardware components in certain Oracle ILOM and system commands and messages.
Host bus adapter. Provides I/O processing and physical connectivity between a server and a storage or network device.
See Oracle ILOM.
A networking communications standard that features very high throughput and very low latency.
IP network multipathing. An Oracle Solaris feature providing multipathing and load-balancing capabilities for IP network interfaces.
Internet protocol over InfiniBand.
Internet small computer system interface. An IP-based storage networking standard that enables a server to access storage across a network. In an iSCSI network, the remote storage is called the iSCSI target.
A boot process that enables a server to boot an iSCSI target accessible using IP over an InfiniBand network. See also IPoIB.
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A virtual machine comprising a discrete logical grouping of resources that has its own operating system and identity within a single computer system.
A miniroot is a minimal root file system consisting of the Oracle Solaris software required to boot the OS to either install or upgrade the OS. You might need to patch the miniroot if you need to add driver and hardware support to the boot image.
Multipathing software enables you to define and control redundant physical paths to I/O devices such as storage devices and network interfaces.
Non-Volatile Memory Express. A specification for accessing SSDs attached through the PCIe bus.
Oracle firmware that enables a PDomain to boot the Oracle Solaris OS. Provides an interface for testing hardware and software interactively.
Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager. The system management firmware that is preinstalled on the server SPs.
Oracle Validation Test Suite. An application that exercises the system, provides hardware validation, and identifies possible faulty components.
Physical domain. SPARC M8-8 and SPARC M7-8 servers are configured with either two PDomains or one PDomain. These PDomains are static and cannot be reconfigured. The SPARC M7-16 server can have one to four configured PDomains. These SPARC M7-16 PDomains are dynamic, so you can assign or unassign the DCUs in the PDomains as long as you stop and start the host.
See also DCU and switch unit.
The lead SPM of a PDomain. The PDomain SPM manages tasks and provides rKVMS service for that PDomain. In a SPARC M7-16 server, Oracle ILOM identifies one of the DCU SPMs from the pool of DCU SPMs on the same PDomain as the PDomain SPM to manage activity on that host. See also PDomain and SPM.
A logical group of devices describing the layout and physical characteristics of the available storage. Storage space for datasets is allocated from a pool. ZFS uses a model where storage devices are aggregated into a storage pool.
Root complex. The first element in a PCIe device path (for example, /pci@300).
The ability to increase (or scale up) processing power in a server by combining the server's physical configurable hardware (see DCU) into one or more logical groups (see PDomain).
Small computer system interface. See also iSCSI.
Scalability link. See also scalability.
Service processor. For redundancy, the server contains two service processors, one active and one on standby.
Service processor module. A component of the SPs and SPPs. SPMs contain processors that enable the SPs and SPPs to manage the server resources. See also DCU SPM and PDomain SPM.
Service processor proxy. One SPP is assigned to manage each PDomain. SPPs monitor environmental sensors and manage the CMIOUs, memory controllers, and DIMMs within the DCU. See also DCU SPM and PDomain SPM.
A redundant SP that will manage server resources if the Active SP fails. See also SP and Active SP.
A device that enables the CMIOUs to communicate with each other. The SPARC M7-16 server switch contains six switch units.
In the SPARC M8 and SPARC M7 servers documentation, system refers to the /System level in the Oracle ILOM firmware.
See Oracle VTS.