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Preface

Part I Oracle VM Server for SPARC 2.2 Software

1.  Overview of the Oracle VM Server for SPARC Software

2.  Installing and Enabling Software

3.  Oracle VM Server for SPARC Security

4.  Setting Up Services and the Control Domain

5.  Setting Up Guest Domains

6.  Setting Up I/O Domains

7.  Using Virtual Disks

8.  Using Virtual Networks

9.  Migrating Domains

10.  Managing Resources

11.  Managing Domain Configurations

12.  Performing Other Administration Tasks

Entering Names in the CLI

File Names (file) and Variable Names (var-name)

Virtual Disk Server backend and Virtual Switch Device Names

Configuration Name (config-name)

All Other Names

Connecting to a Guest Console Over a Network

Using Console Groups

How to Combine Multiple Consoles Into One Group

Stopping a Heavily Loaded Domain Can Time Out

Operating the Oracle Solaris OS With Oracle VM Server for SPARC

OpenBoot Firmware Not Available After Oracle Solaris OS Has Started

Powercycling a Server

How to Save Your Current Domain Configurations to the SP

Do Not Use the psradm(1M) Command on Active CPUs in a Power-Managed Domain

Result of Oracle Solaris OS Breaks

Results From Halting or Rebooting the Control Domain

Using Logical Domains With the Service Processor

How to Reset the Domain Configuration to the Default or Another Configuration

Configuring Domain Dependencies

Domain Dependency Examples

Dependency Cycles

Determining Where Errors Occur by Mapping CPU and Memory Addresses

CPU Mapping

How to Determine the CPU Number

Memory Mapping

How to Determine the Real Memory Address

Examples of CPU and Memory Mapping

Using Universally Unique Identifiers

Virtual Domain Information Command and API

Part II Optional Oracle VM Server for SPARC Software

13.  Oracle VM Server for SPARC Physical-to-Virtual Conversion Tool

14.  Oracle VM Server for SPARC Configuration Assistant (Oracle Solaris 10)

15.  Using the Oracle VM Server for SPARC Management Information Base Software

16.  Logical Domains Manager Discovery

17.  Using the XML Interface With the Logical Domains Manager

Glossary

Index

Configuring Domain Dependencies

You can use the Logical Domains Manager to establish dependency relationships between domains. A domain that has one or more domains that depend on it is called a master domain. A domain that depends on another domain is called a slave domain.

Each slave domain can specify up to four master domains by setting the master property. For example, the pine slave domain specifies its four master domains in the following comma-separated list:

# ldm add-domain master=apple,lemon,orange,peach pine

Each master domain can specify what happens to its slave domains in the event that the master domain fails. For instance, if a master domain fails, it might require its slave domains to panic. If a slave domain has more than one master domain, the first master domain to fail triggers its defined failure policy on all of its slave domains.


Note - If more than one master domain fails simultaneously, only one of the specified failure policies will be enforced on all the affected slave domains. For example, if the failed master domains have failure policies of stop and panic, all slave domains will be either stopped or panicked.


The master domain's failure policy is controlled by setting one of the following values to the failure-policy property:

In this example, the master domains specify their failure policy as follows:

# ldm set-domain failure-policy=ignore apple
# ldm set-domain failure-policy=panic lemon
# ldm set-domain failure-policy=reset orange
# ldm set-domain failure-policy=stop peach

You can use this mechanism to create explicit dependencies between domains. For example, a guest domain implicitly depends on the service domain to provide its virtual devices. A guest domain's I/O is blocked when the service domain on which it depends is not up and running. By defining a guest domain as a slave of its service domain, you can specify the behavior of the guest domain when its service domain goes down. When no such dependency is established, a guest domain just waits for its service domain to return to service.


Note - The Logical Domains Manager does not permit you to create domain relationships that create a dependency cycle. For more information, see Dependency Cycles.


For domain dependency XML examples, see Example 17-6.

Domain Dependency Examples

The following examples show how to configure domain dependencies.

Dependency Cycles

The Logical Domains Manager does not permit you to create domain relationships that create a dependency cycle. A dependency cycle is a relationship between two or more domains that lead to a situation where a slave domain depends on itself, or a master domain depends on one of its slave domains.

The Logical Domains Manager determines whether a dependency cycle exists before adding a dependency. The Logical Domains Manager starts at the slave domain and searches along all paths that are specified by the master array until the end of the path is reached. Any dependency cycles found along the way are reported as errors.

The following example shows how a dependency cycle might be created. The first command creates a slave domain called mohawk that specifies its master domain as primary. So, mohawk depends on primary in the following dependency chain:

Figure 12-1 Single Domain Dependency

image:Diagram shows a domain dependency chain where the mohawk domain depends on the primary domain as its master.

The second command creates a slave domain called primary that specifies its master domain as counter. So, mohawk depends on primary, which depends on counter in the following dependency chain:

Figure 12-2 Multiple Domain Dependency

image:Diagram shows a domain dependency chain where mohawk depends on primary, and primary depends on counter.

The third command attempts to create a dependency between the counter and mohawk domains, which would produce the following dependency cycle:

Figure 12-3 Domain Dependency Cycle

image:Diagram shows a domain dependency cycle where mohawk depends on primary, primary depends on counter, and counter depends on mohawk.

The ldm set-domain command will fail with the following error message:

# ldm add-domain master=primary mohawk
# ldm set-domain master=counter primary
# ldm set-domain master=mohawk counter
Dependency cycle detected: LDom "counter" indicates "primary" as its master