Preface

The Logical Domains (LDoms) 1.0.2 Administration Guide provides detailed information and procedures that describe the overview, security considerations, installation, configuration, modification, and execution of common tasks for the Logical Domains Manager 1.0.2 software on supported servers, blades, and server modules. Refer to “Supported Platforms” in the Logical Domains (LDoms) 1.0.2 Release Notes for a list. This guide is intended for the system administrators on these servers who have a working knowledge of UNIX® systems and the Solaristrademark Operating System (Solaris OS).


Before You Read This Document

If you do not have a working knowledge of UNIX commands and procedures and your Solaris Operating System, read the Solaris OS user and system administrator documentation provided with your system hardware, and consider UNIX system administration training.


How This Book Is Organized

Chapter 1 provides an overview of the Logical Domains software.

Chapter 2 discusses the Solaris Security Toolkit, and how it can provide security for the Solaris OS in logical domains.

Chapter 3 provides detailed procedures for upgrading or installing, and enabling Logical Domains Manager software.

Chapter 4 provides detailed procedures for setting up services and logical domains.

Chapter 5 provides other information and procedures for executing common tasks in using the Logical Domains software to manage logical domains.

Glossary is a list of LDoms-specific abbreviations, acronyms, and terms and their definitions.


Using UNIX Commands

This document might not contain information on basic UNIX commands and procedures such as shutting down the system, booting the system, and configuring devices. Refer to the following for this information:


Shell Prompts


Shell Prompt
C shell machine-name%
C shell superuser machine-name#
Bourne shell and Korn shell $
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser #


Typographic Conventions


Typeface[1] Meaning Examples
AaBbCc123 The names of commands, files, and directories; on‐screen computer output Edit your .login file.

Use ls -a to list all files.

% You have mail.

AaBbCc123 What you type, when contrasted with on-screen computer output % su

Password:

AaBbCc123 Book titles, new words or terms, words to be emphasized. Replace command-line variables with real names or values. Read Chapter 6 in the User’s Guide.

These are called class options.

To delete a file, type rm filename.



Related Documentation

The Logical Domains (LDoms) 1.0.2 Administration Guide and Release Notes are available at:

http://docs.sun.com

The Beginners Guide to LDoms: Understanding and Deploying Logical Domains Software can be found at the Sun BluePrintstrademark site at:

http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0207/820-0832.html

You can find documents relating to your server, software, or Solaris OS at:

http://docs.sun.com

Type the name of the server, software, or Solaris OS in the Search box to find the documents you need.


Application Title Part Number Format Location
Release notes for LDoms Logical Domains (LDoms) 1.0.2 Release Notes 820-3599-10 HTML

PDF

Online
Solaris man pages for LDoms Solaris 10 Reference Manual Collection:
  • drd(1M) man page

  • vntsd(1M) man page

N/A HTML Online
LDoms man page ldm(1M) man page

Logical Domains (LDoms) 1.0.1 Manager Man Page Guide

N/A

819-7679-10

SGML

PDF

Online

Online

Basics for Logical Domains software Beginners Guide to LDoms: Understanding and Deploying Logical Domains Software 820-0832-20 PDF Online
Administration for LDoms MIB Logical Domains (LDoms) MIB 1.0.1 Administration Guide 820-2319-10 HTML

PDF

Online
Release notes for LDoms MIB Logical Domains (LDoms) MIB 1.0.1 Release Notes 820-2320-10 HTML

PDF

Online
Solaris OS including installation, using JumpStart™, and using the SMF Solaris 10 Collection N/A HTML

PDF

Online
Security Solaris Security Toolkit 4.2 Administration Guide 819-1402-10 HTML

PDF

Online
Security Solaris Security Toolkit 4.2 Reference Manual 819-1503-10 HTML

PDF

Online
Security Solaris Security Toolkit 4.2 Release Notes 819-1504-10 HTML

PDF

Online
Security Solaris Security Toolkit 4.2 Man Page Guide 819-1505-10 HTML

PDF

Online


Documentation, Support, and Training


Sun Function URL
Documentation http://docs.sun.com
Support http://www.sun.com/support
Training http://www.sun.com/training


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