Non-primary root domains can be used in addition to the control domain to provide direct I/O and SR-IOV capabilities to other domains. This feature is supported on the SPARC T4 servers, SPARC T5 servers, SPARC T7 series servers, SPARC M5 servers, SPARC M6 servers, SPARC M7 series servers, and Fujitsu M10 servers.
Hardware Requirements.
In addition to the PCIe cards for the direct I/O and SR-IOV described in https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&doctype=REFERENCE&id=1325454.1, other PCIe cards can be used, but not for DIO and SR-IOV. To determine which cards you can use on your platform, see your platform's hardware documentation.
Firmware Requirements.
SPARC T4 platforms must run at least version 8.4.0.a of the system firmware.
SPARC T5 servers, SPARC M5 servers, and SPARC M6 servers must run at least version 9.1.0.x of the system firmware.
SPARC T7 series servers and SPARC M7 series servers must run at least version 9.4.3 of the system firmware.
Fujitsu M10 servers must run at least version XCP2210 of the system firmware.
Software Requirements.
Non-primary domains must run at least the Oracle Solaris 11.2 OS.