This list defines terminology, abbreviations, and acronyms in the Logical Domains 1.0.3 documentation.
Advanced Lights Out Manager chip multithreading, which runs on the system controller and allows you to monitor and control your CMT server
Determining if a system’s configuration is in compliance with a predefined security profile
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.
I/O devices, such as internal disks and PCI-Express (PCI-E) controllers and their attached adapters and devices
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
Discrete logical grouping with its own operating system, resources, and identity within a single computer system
Provides a CLI to create and manage logical domains and allocate resources to domains
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.
Logical domain that provides devices, such as virtual switches, virtual console connectors, and virtual disk servers to other logical domains
virtual console concentrator service with a specific port range to assign to the guest domains
virtual console for accessing system level messages. A connection is achieved by connecting to vconscon service in the control domain at a specific port.
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.
virtual disks are generic block devices backed by different types of physical devices, volumes, or files.
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.
virtual network device implements a virtual Ethernet device and communicates with other vnet devices in the system using the virtual network switch (vswitch).
virtual network switch that connects the virtual network devices to the external network and also switches packets between them.
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