Advanced Lights Out Manager chip multithreading, which runs on the system controller and allows you to monitor and control your CMT server

Application Programming Interface

merge and select audit records from audit trail files

Using the Solaris OS BSM to identify the source of security changes

Setting up authorization using the Solaris OS RBAC

Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet driver on Broadcom BCM57xx devices

Basic Security module

enable the BSM

disable the BSM

compact disc

command-line interface

Determining if a system’s configuration is in compliance with a predefined security profile

Name of logical domain configuration saved on the system controller

chip multithreading

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.

Domain that creates and manages other logical domains and services

central processing unit

Control Word Queue; cryptographic unit for Sun UltraSPARC T2-based platforms

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

Direct Memory Access is the ability to directly transfer data between the memory and a device (for example, a network card) without involving the CPU.

Dynamic Multipathing (Veritas)

data plane software

dynamic reconfiguration

dynamic reconfiguration daemon for Logical Domains Manager (Solaris 10 OS)

Domain Services module (Solaris 10 OS)

digital versatile disc

driver for Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit family of network interface controllers

extensible firmware interface

Encoding Table Management module (Solaris 10 OS)

Fiber Channel Arbitrated Loop

Fault Management Architecture

fault manager daemon (Solaris 10 OS)

disk partitioning and maintenance utility

populate label on hard disks

File Transfer Protocol

gigabit

Uses services from the I/O and service domains and is managed by the control domain.

Generic LAN Driver version 3.

Modifying Solaris OS configuration to improve security

hard disk drive

Firmware layer interposed between the operating system and the hardware layer

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

Infiniband

Integrated Drive Electronics

Interim Diagnostics Release

Integrated Lights Out Manager

I/O devices, such as internal disks and PCIe controllers and their attached adapters and devices

input/output control call

Internet Protocol

Internet Protocol Network Multipathing

International Organization for Standardization

kernel asynchronous input/output

kilobyte

kernel update

local-area network

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

logical domain channel

Logical Domain Manager utility

Logical Domains Manager daemon

loopback file

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

logical unit number

media access control address, which LDoms can automatically assign or you can assign manually

Modular Arithmetic Unit; the cryptographic device for Sun UltraSPARC T1–based platforms

megabyte

machine description in the server database

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.

create and delete replicas of the SVM metadevice state database

configure disk sets

multihost disk control operations

Management Information Base

Installing the minimum number of core Solaris OS package necessary

Multimode fiber

memory management unit

multipathing group name for virtual disk failover

maximum transmission unit

Network Address Translation

Netra DPS Logical Domain Channel Client. See also vdpcc.

Netra DPS Logical Domain Channel Service. See also vdpcs.

network file system

Network Information Services

Network Interface Unit (Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers)

network terminal server

non-volatile random-access memory

Driver for Sun x8 Express 1/10G Ethernet Adapter

operating system

Open Virtualization Format

physical address

peripheral component interconnect bus

PCI Express bus

PCI Extended bus

physical CPU

physical input/output

Platform Information and Control Library

PICL daemon

Power management of virtual CPUs

print contents of an audit trail file

priority

real address

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks

Role-Based Access Control

Remote Procedure Call

Simple Authentication and Security Layer

Simple API for XML parser, which traverses an XML document. The SAX parser is event-based and used mostly for streaming data.

system controller, also known as service processor

Small Computer System Interface

Logical domain that provides devices, such as virtual switches, virtual console connectors, and virtual disk servers to other logical domains

System Management Agent

Service Management Facility

Simple Network Management Protocol

service processor, also known as system controller

Secure Shell

Secure Shell command

Secure Shell daemon

Sun Validation Test Suite

manipulate service instances

Solaris Volume Manager

Transmission Control Protocol

Transport Layer Security

User Diagram Protocol

UNIX File System

Communication that takes place over a network between a single sender and a single receiver.

Universal Serial Bus

user SCSI command interface

unshielded twisted pair

variable

virtual blade system controller

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 disk client

virtual data plane channel client in a Netra DPS environment

virtual data plane channel service in a Netra DPS environment

virtual disks are generic block devices backed by different types of physical devices, volumes, or files.

virtual disk server allows you to import virtual disks into a logical domain.

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 local area network

virtual logical domain channel service

virtual logical domain channel client

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 terminal server daemon for Logical Domains consoles (Solaris 10 OS)

Volume Management file system

virtual network switch that connects the virtual network devices to the external network and also switches packets between them.

volume table of contents

Veritas Dynamic Multipathing

Veritas Volume Manager

wide-area network

eXtreme Fast Path

Extensible Markup Language

Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol

Zettabyte File System (Solaris 10 OS)

ZFS storage pool

ZFS Volume Emulation Driver