ALOM CMT
Advanced Lights Out Manager chip multithreading,
which runs on the system controller and allows you to monitor and
control your CMT server
auditing
Using the Solaris OS BSM to identify the source
of security changes
authorization
Setting up authorization using the Solaris OS RBAC
B
bge
Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet driver on Broadcom BCM57xx
devices
compliance
Determining if a system’s configuration is in compliance
with a predefined security profile
config
Name of logical domain configuration saved on the
system controller
constraints
To the Logical Domains Manager, constraints are
one or more resources you want to have assigned to a particular
domain. You either receive all the resources you ask to be added
to a domain or you get none of them, depending upon the available
resources.
control domain
Domain that creates and manages other logical domains
and services
CWQ
Control Word Queue; cryptographic unit for Sun UltraSPARC
T2-based platforms
D
DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DMP
Dynamic Multipathing (Veritas)
drd(1M)
dynamic reconfiguration daemon for Logical Domains
Manager (Solaris 10 OS)
DS
Domain Services module (Solaris 10 OS)
E
e1000g
driver for Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit family of network
interface controllers
EFI
extensible firmware interface
ETM
Encoding Table Management module (Solaris 10 OS)
F
FC_AL
Fiber Channel Arbitrated Loop
FMA
Fault Management Architecture
fmd(1M)
Fault Manager daemon (Solaris 10 OS)
guest domain
Uses services from the I/O and service domains and
is managed by the control domain.
GLDv3
Generic LAN Driver version 3.
H
hardening
Modifying Solaris OS configuration to improve security
hypervisor
Firmware layer interposed between the operating
system and the hardware layer
I
io
I/O devices, such as internal disks and PCI-Express
(PCI-E) controllers and their attached adapters and devices
I/O domain
Domain that has direct ownership of and direct access
to physical I/O devices and that shares those devices to other logical
domains in the form of virtual devices
ioctl
input/output control call
IPMP
Internet Protocol Network Multipathing
K
kaio
kernel asynchronous input/output
LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
ldm(1M)
Logical Domain Manager utility
ldmd
Logical Domains Manager daemon
logical domain
Discrete logical grouping with its own operating
system, resources, and identity within a single computer system
Logical Domains (LDoms)
Manager
Provides a CLI to create and manage logical domains
and allocate resources to domains
M
MAC
media access control address, which LDoms can automatically
assign or you can assign manually
MAU
Modular Arithmetic Unit; the cryptographic device
for Sun UltraSPARC T1–based platforms
MD
machine description in the server database
mem, memory
memory unit - default size in bytes, or specify
gigabytes (G), kilobytes (K),
or megabytes (M). Virtualized memory of the server
that can be allocated to guest domains.
MIB
Management Information Base
minimizing
Installing the minimum number of core Solaris OS
package necessary
mtu
maximum transmission unit
N
NAT
Network Address Translation
NDPSS
Netra Data Plane Software Suite
ndpsldcc
Netra Data Plane Software Logical Domain Channel
Client. See also vdpcc.
ndpsldcs
Netra Data Plane Software Logical Domain Channel
Service. See also vdpcs.
NIS
Network Information Services
NIU
Network Interface Unit (Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120
and T5220 servers)
NVRAM
non-volatile random-access memory
nxge
Driver for Sun x8 Express 1/10G Ethernet Adapter
O
PCI
peripheral component interconnect bus
PICL
Platform Information and Control Library
RAID
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
RBAC
Role-Based Access Control
SC
system controller, same as system processor
SCSI
Small Computer System Interface
service domain
Logical domain that provides devices, such as virtual
switches, virtual console connectors, and virtual disk servers to
other logical domains
SMF
Service Management Facility of Solaris 10 OS
SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol
SP
system processor, same as system controller
SunVTS
Sun Validation Test Suite
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol
U
vBSC
virtual blade system controller
vcc, vconscon
virtual console concentrator service with a specific
port range to assign to the guest domains
vcons, vconsole
virtual console for accessing system level messages.
A connection is achieved by connecting to vconscon service
in the control domain at a specific port.
vcpu
virtual central processing unit. Each of the cores
of a server are represented as virtual CPUs. For example, an 8-core
Sun Fire T2000 Server has 32 virtual CPUs that can be allocated
between the logical domains.
vdpcc
virtual data plane channel client in an NDPS environment
vdpcs
virtual data plane channel service in an NDPS environment
vdisk
virtual disks are generic block devices backed by
different types of physical devices, volumes, or files.
vds, vdiskserver
virtual disk server allows you to import virtual
disks into a logical domain.
vdsdev, vdiskserverdevice
virtual disk server device is exported by the virtual
disk server. The device can be an entire disk, a slice on a disk,
a file, or a disk volume.
vnet
virtual network device implements a virtual Ethernet
device and communicates with other vnet devices
in the system using the virtual network switch (vswitch).
vntsd(1M)
virtual network terminal server daemon for Logical
Domains consoles (Solaris 10 OS)
vsw, vswitch
virtual network switch that connects the virtual
network devices to the external network and also switches packets
between them.
XML
Extensible Markup Language
Z
ZFS
Zettabyte File System (Solaris 10 OS)