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Chapter 1 Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1.1.2, 3.1.1.1, 3.1.1, and 3.1 Release Notes
Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1.1.2 Maintenance Update
Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1.1.1 Maintenance Update
What's New in the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1.1.1 Maintenance Update
What's New in the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1.1 Release
What's New in the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1 Release
Required Oracle Solaris OS Versions
Required Oracle Solaris OS Versions for the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1.1.1 Maintenance Update
Required Oracle Solaris OS Versions for Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1.1
Required Oracle Solaris OS Versions for Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1
Required Software to Enable the Latest Oracle VM Server for SPARC Features
Required System Firmware Patches
Minimum Version of Software Required
Direct I/O Hardware and Software Requirements
PCIe SR-IOV Hardware and Software Requirements
Non-primary Root Domain Hardware and Software Requirements
Recovery Mode Hardware and Software Requirements
Software That Can Be Used With the Oracle VM Server for SPARC Software
System Controller Software That Interacts With Oracle VM Server for SPARC
Upgrading to the Current Oracle VM Server for SPARC Software
Upgrading to the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1.1.1 Software
Upgrading to the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1.1 Software
Upgrading to the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1 Software
Deprecated Oracle VM Server for SPARC Features
Cannot Unbind Domains When They Provide Services to Each Other
Guest Domain Cannot Run the Oracle Solaris 10 OS When More Than 1024 CPUs Are Assigned
Avoid Creating a Configuration Where Two Domains Provide Services to Each Other
Upgrading From Oracle Solaris 10 OS Older Than Oracle Solaris 10 5/08 OS
Service Processor and System Controller Are Interchangeable Terms
How to Find a Guest Domain's Solaris Volume Manager Configuration or Metadevices
Booting a Large Number of Domains
Cleanly Shutting Down and Power Cycling an Oracle VM Server for SPARC System
How to Power Off a System With Multiple Active Domains
Memory Size Requested Might Be Different From Memory Allocated
Logical Domains Variable Persistence
Oracle's Sun SNMP Management Agent Does Not Support Multiple Domains
ldmp2v convert Command: VxVM Warning Messages During Boot
Oracle Hard Partitioning Requirements for Software Licenses
Upgrade Option Not Presented When Using ldmp2v prepare -R
Sometimes a Block of Dynamically Added Memory Can be Dynamically Removed Only as a Whole
ldmp2v Command: ufsdump Archiving Method Is No Longer Used
Only One CPU Configuration Operation Is Permitted to Be Performed During a Delayed Reconfiguration
Oracle Solaris Boot Disk Compatibility
Version Restrictions for Migration
CPU Restrictions for Migration
Version Restrictions for Cross-CPU Migration
Domains That Have Only One Virtual CPU Assigned Might Panic During a Live Migration
Oracle VM Server for SPARC MIB Issues
snmptable Command Does Not Work With the Version 2 or Version 3 Option
Control Domain Hangs When Stopping or Starting I/O Domains
Warnings Appear on Console When Creating Fibre Channel Virtual Functions
Fibre Channel Physical Function Configuration Changes Require Several Minutes to Complete
Fujitsu M10 System Has Different SR-IOV Feature Limitations
Misleading Messages Shown For InfiniBand SR-IOV Operations
Bugs Affecting the Oracle VM Server for SPARC Software
Bugs Affecting the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1.1.2 Software
System Crashes When Applying the Whole-Core Constraint to a Partial Core primary Domain
Kernel Zones Block Live Migration of Guest Domains
Bugs Affecting the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1.1.1 Software
Recovery Mode Fails With ldmd in Maintenance Mode When Virtual Switch net-dev Is Missing
Migration to a SPARC M5 or SPARC T5 System Might Panic With suspend: get stick freq failed
Logical Domains Manager Does Not Prohibit the Creation of Circular Dependencies
Bugs Affecting the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1.1 Software
Very Large LDC Counts Might Result in Oracle Solaris Issues in Guest Domains
Fibre Channel Physical Function Is Faulted by FMA And Disabled
Sun Storage 16 Gb Fibre Channel Universal HBA Firmware Does Not Support Bandwidth Controls
Adding Memory After Performing a Cross-CPU Migration Might Cause a Guest Domain Panic
Incorrect Device Path for Fibre Channel Virtual Functions in a Root Domain
ldmd Dumps Core When Attempting to Bind a Domain in Either the Binding or Unbinding State
Bugs Affecting the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1 Software
Issues Might Arise When FMA Detects Faulty Memory
ldmd Service Fails to Start Because of a Delay in Creating virtual-channel@0:hvctl
Cannot Install the Oracle Solaris 11.1 OS Using an EFI GPT Disk Label on Single-Slice Virtual Disk
After Being Migrated, A Domain Can Panic on Boot After Being Started or Rebooted
Size of Preallocated Machine Description Buffer Is Used During Migration
Virtual Network Hang Prevents a Domain Migration
ldmpower Output Sometimes Does Not Include Timestamps
mac_do_softlso Drops LSO Packets
Migration Failure: Invalid Shutdown-group: 0
Autosave Configuration Is Not Updated After the Removal of a Virtual Function or a PCIe Device
ldmp2v convert Command Failure Causes Upgrade Loop
Guest Domain Panics at lgrp_lineage_add(mutex_enter: bad mutex, lp=10351178)
Guest Domains in Transition State After Reboot of the primary Domain
Panic Occurs in Rare Circumstances When the Virtual Network Device Driver Operates in TxDring Mode
A Domain That Has Only One Virtual CPU Assigned Might Panic During a Live Migration
Recovery Mode Should Support PCIe Slot Removal in Non-primary Root Domains
ldm list Does Not Show the evacuated Property for Physical I/O Devices
Invalid Physical Address Is Received During a Domain Migration
send_mondo_set: timeout Panic Occurs When Using the ldm stop Command on a Guest Domain After Stress
Subdevices Under a PCIe Device Revert to an Unassigned Name
SPARC M5-32 and SPARC M6-32: panic: mpo_cpu_add: Cannot read MD
SPARC M5-32 and SPARC M6-32: Issue With Disks That Are Accessible Through Multiple Direct I/O Paths
ixgbevf Device in SR-IOV Domains Might Become Disabled When Rebooting the primary Domain
Oracle Solaris 10 Only: mutex_enter: bad mutex Panic in primary Domain During a Reboot or Shutdown
SPARC M5-32 and SPARC M6-32: LSI-SAS Controller Is Incorrectly Exported With SR-IOV
SPARC T5-8: Uptime Data Shows a Value of 0 for Some ldm List Commands
Cannot Set a Jumbo MTU for sxge Virtual Functions in the primary Domain of a SPARC T5-1B System
ldmd Is Unable to Set the mac-addr and alt-mac-addrs Property Values for the sxge Device
ldm list-io -d Output for an sxge Device on SPARC T5-1B System Is Missing Two Properties
ldm Fails to Evacuate a Faulty Core From a Guest Domain
Memory DR Operations Hang When Reducing Memory Below Four Gbytes
CPU DR of Very Large Number of Virtual CPUs Can Appear to Fail
SPARC T4-4: Unable to Bind a Guest Domain
Guest Domain Panics While Changing the threading Property Value From max-throughput to max-ipc
Control Domain Hangs on Reboot With Two Active Direct I/O Domains
No Error Message When a Memory DR Add is Partially Successful
Re-creating a Domain That Has PCIe Virtual Functions From an XML File Fails
ldm list -o Command No Longer Accepts Format Abbreviations
Control Domain Requires the Lowest Core in the System
After Canceling a Migration, ldm Commands That Are Run on the Target System Are Unresponsive
Some Emulex Cards Do Not Work When Assigned to I/O Domain
Guest Domain Panics When Running the cputrack Command During a Migration to a SPARC T4 System
Oracle Solaris 11: DRM Stealing Reports Oracle Solaris DR Failure and Retries
Limit the Maximum Number of Virtual Functions That Can Be Assigned to a Domain
Guest Domain That Uses Cross-CPU Migration Reports Random Uptimes After the Migration Completes
Guest Domain Console Randomly Hangs on SPARC T4 Systems
ldm remove-io of PCIe Cards That Have PCIe-to-PCI Bridges Should Be Disallowed
ldm stop Command Might Fail If Issued Immediately After an ldm start Command
init-system Does Not Restore Named Core Constraints for Guest Domains From Saved XML Files
Partial Core primary Fails to Permit Whole-Core DR Transitions
ldm list-io Command Shows the UNK or INV State After Boot
Removing a Large Number of CPUs From a Guest Domain Fails
Cannot Use Oracle Solaris Hot-Plug Operations to Hot-Remove a PCIe Endpoint Device
All ldm Commands Hang When Migrations Have Missing Shared NFS Resources
Logical Domains Agent Service Does Not Come Online If the System Log Service Does Not Come Online
Kernel Deadlock Causes Machine to Hang During a Migration
Virtual CPU Timeout Failures During DR
Migration Failure Reason Not Reported When the System MAC Address Clashes With Another MAC Address
Simultaneous Migration Operations in “Opposite Direction” Might Cause ldm to Hang
Removing a Large Number of CPUs From the Control Domain Fails
System Running the Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 OS That Has the Elastic Policy Set Might Hang
pkgadd Fails to Set ACL Entries on /var/svc/manifest/platform/sun4v/ldmd.xml
SPARC T3-1: Issue With Disks That Are Accessible Through Multiple Direct I/O Paths
An In-Use MAC Address Can be Reassigned
ldmconfig Cannot Create a Domain Configuration on the SP
Uncooperative Oracle Solaris Domain Migration Can Be Blocked If cpu0 Is Offline
Memory DR Is Disabled Following a Canceled Migration
Dynamic Reconfiguration of MTU Values of Virtual Network Devices Sometimes Fails
Confusing Migration Failure Message for Real Address Memory Bind Failures
Dynamically Removing All the Cryptographic Units From a Domain Causes SSH to Terminate
PCI Express Dual 10-Gigabit Ethernet Fiber Card Shows Four Subdevices in ldm list-io -l Output
Using Logical Domains mpgroup With MPXIO Storage Array Configuration for High-Disk Availability
ldm Commands Are Slow to Respond When Several Domains Are Booting
Oracle Solaris 11: Zones Configured With an Automatic Network Interface Might Fail to Start
Oracle Solaris 10: Virtual Network Devices Are Not Created Properly on the Control Domain
Newly Added NIU/XAUI Adapters Are Not Visible to the Host OS If Logical Domains Is Configured
I/O Domain or Guest Domain Panics When Booting From e1000g
Explicit Console Group and Port Bindings Are Not Migrated
Migration Does Not Fail If a vdsdev on the Target Has a Different Back End
Migration Can Fail to Bind Memory Even If the Target Has Enough Available
Logical Domains Manager Does Not Start If the Machine Is Not Networked and an NIS Client Is Running
Logical Domains Manager Displays Migrated Domains in Transition States When They Are Already Booted
Cannot Connect to Migrated Domain's Console Unless vntsd Is Restarted
Logical Domains Manager Can Take Over 15 Minutes to Shut Down a Domain
scadm Command Can Hang Following an SC or SP Reset
Simultaneous Net Installation of Multiple Domains Fails When in a Common Console Group
Guest Domain With Too Many Virtual Networks on the Same Network Using DHCP Can Become Unresponsive
Cannot Set Security Keys With Logical Domains Running
Behavior of the ldm stop-domain Command Can Be Confusing
ldm1M Man Page: Describe the Limitation for Using the mblock Property
ldm1M Man Page: Improve description of the ldm list -o status Command
ldm1M Man Page: Only ldm add-spconfig -r Performs a Manual Recovery
Resolved Issues in the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1.1.2 Release
Resolved Issues in the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1.1.1 Release
Resolved Issues in the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1.1 Release
Resolved Issues in the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1.0.1 Release
Resolved Issues in the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1 Release
This section lists the required software and patches for use with the current Oracle VM Server for SPARC software.
Caution - Do not downgrade to older versions of individual software and firmware components. Such downgrades are not recommended and might lead to unexpected behavior and failures. |
To use all features of the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1.1.1 maintenance update, the operating system (OS) on all domains should be at least the Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 OS with Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1.1.1 patch ID 150817-03 and the required patches shown in or the Oracle Solaris 11.2.2.0.5 OS. This OS can be either an initial installation of or an upgrade to the appropriate OS.
The PVLAN feature requires at least the Oracle Solaris 11.2.4.0.0 (SRU 4) OS running on the service domain. This OS is due for release in November 2014.
The following table shows the patches that must be applied to the Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 OS to include the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1.1.1 functionality. For information about the minimum Oracle Solaris OS versions for supported server platforms, see the data sheet for your server platform at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/oracle-sparc-ent-servers-189996.html.
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To use all features of the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1.1 software, the operating system (OS) on all domains should be at least the Oracle Solaris 11.1.17.4.0 OS or the Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 OS plus the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1.1 patch ID 150817-02 and the required patches in . This OS can be either an initial installation of or an upgrade to the appropriate OS.
The following table shows the patches that must be applied to the Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 OS to include the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1.1 functionality. For information about the minimum Oracle Solaris OS versions for supported server platforms, see the data sheet for your server platform at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/oracle-sparc-ent-servers-189996.html.
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To use all features of the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1 software, the operating system (OS) on all domains should be at least the Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 OS or the Oracle Solaris 11.1.10.5.0 OS. This OS can be either an initial installation of or an upgrade to the Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 OS or the Oracle Solaris 11.1.10.5.0 OS.
The following table shows the patches that must be applied to the Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 OS to include the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1 functionality. For information about the minimum Oracle Solaris OS versions for supported server platforms, see the data sheet for your server platform at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/oracle-sparc-ent-servers-189996.html.
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To enable all the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1.1.1, Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1.1, or Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1 features, you must run the required system firmware versions on the platforms listed in the following table.
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This table lists the specific patch numbers that deliver the required versions that are listed in .
Caution - Only install to the 3.1.1.1 system firmware patch listed in this table if you want to increase the number of LDC endpoints on guest domains. Using this firmware might result in live migration problems, see “Live Migration Might Fail With Unable to restore ldc resource state on target Domain Migration of LDom failed”. |
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You can run the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1.1.1, Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1.1, or Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1 software with at least the minimum versions of the other software components. In such a configuration, you might not have access to all the features of the latest Oracle VM Server for SPARC software. For the best results in production environments, run with the recommended system firmware version described in Required Software to Enable the Latest Oracle VM Server for SPARC Features, and with the Oracle Solaris OS version described in Required Oracle Solaris OS Versions.
You can apply the latest Oracle VM Server for SPARC package to a system running at least the following versions of software. The minimum software versions are platform specific and depend on the requirements of the CPU in the machine. The minimum Oracle Solaris OS version for a given CPU type applies to all domain types (control, service, I/O, and guest). For information about the minimum versions of the Oracle Solaris OS for supported server platforms, see the data sheet for your server platform at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/oracle-sparc-ent-servers-189996.html.
Fujitsu M10 systems: XCP2012
SPARC M6 servers: 9.1.0.g
SPARC M5 servers: 9.0.1.x
SPARC T5 servers: 9.0.0.x
SPARC T4 servers: 8.2.1.b
SPARC T3 servers: 8.2.1.b
UltraSPARC T2 Plus servers: 7.4.4.f
UltraSPARC T2 servers: 7.4.4.f
To successfully use the direct I/O (DIO) features to assign direct I/O devices to domains, you must run the appropriate software, firmware, or both and use supported PCIe cards.
The dynamic direct I/O feature is supported on Fujitsu M10 systems. The static direct I/O feature is supported on the SPARC T3, SPARC T4, SPARC T5, SPARC M5, and SPARC M6 platforms and Fujitsu M10 systems.
Hardware Requirements. Only certain PCIe cards can be used as a direct I/O endpoint device on an I/O domain. You can still use other cards in your Oracle VM Server for SPARC environment but they cannot be used with the DIO feature. Instead, they can be used for service domains and for I/O domains that have entire root complexes assigned to them.
Refer to your platform's hardware documentation to verify which cards can be used on your platform. For an up-to-date list of supported PCIe cards, see https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&doctype=REFERENCE&id=1325454.1.
For an up-to-date list of supported devices on Fujitsu M10 systems, see “Fujitsu M10 systems PCI Card Installation Guide” in the product notes for your model at http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/computing/server/sparc/downloads/manual/
Firmware Requirements. To use the dynamic direct I/O feature on Fujitsu M10 systems, implement the firmware requirements in Fujitsu M10 Systems Product Notes.
Software Requirements. To use the DIO feature, the following domains must run the supported OS:
primary domain or a non-primary root domain. At least the Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 OS plus patch ID 145868-01 or the Oracle Solaris 11 OS.
The recommended practice is for all domains to run at least the Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 OS plus the required patches in or the Oracle Solaris 11.1.10.5.0 OS.
To use the dynamic direct I/O feature on Fujitsu M10 systems, implement the software requirements in Fujitsu M10 Systems Product Notes.
I/O domain. Any Oracle Solaris OS that is supported by the platform.
To use the dynamic direct I/O feature on Fujitsu M10 systems, implement the software requirements in Fujitsu M10 Systems Product Notes.
The dynamic PCIe SR-IOV feature is supported on the SPARC T4, SPARC T5, SPARC M5, and SPARC M6 platforms and Fujitsu M10 systems for Ethernet devices. The static PCIe SR-IOV feature is supported on the SPARC T3, SPARC T4, SPARC T5, SPARC M5, and SPARC M6 platforms and Fujitsu M10 systems.
Hardware Requirements.
Refer to your platform's hardware documentation to verify which cards can be used on your platform. For an up-to-date list of supported PCIe cards, see https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&doctype=REFERENCE&id=1325454.1.
Ethernet SR-IOV. To use the SR-IOV feature, you can use on-board PCIe SR-IOV devices as well as PCIe SR-IOV plug-in cards. All on-board SR-IOV devices in a given platform are supported unless otherwise explicitly stated in the platform documentation.
InfiniBand SR-IOV. InfiniBand devices are supported on the SPARC T4, SPARC T5, SPARC M5, and SPARC M6 platforms and Fujitsu M10 systems.
Fibre Channel SR-IOV. Fibre Channel devices are supported on the SPARC T4, SPARC T5, SPARC M5, and SPARC M6 platforms and Fujitsu M10 systems.
For an up-to-date list of supported devices on Fujitsu M10 systems, see “Fujitsu M10 systems PCI Card Installation Guide” in the product notes for your model at http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/computing/server/sparc/downloads/manual/
Firmware Requirements.
Ethernet SR-IOV. To use the dynamic SR-IOV feature, SPARC T4 systems must run at least version 8.4.0.a of the system firmware. SPARC T5, SPARC M5, and SPARC M6 platforms must run at least version 9.1.0.a of the system firmware. Fujitsu M10 systems must run at least version XCP2210 of the system firmware. The SPARC T3 platform supports only the static SR-IOV feature. The SPARC T4, SPARC T5, SPARC M5, and SPARC M6 platforms support only static SR-IOV if not running the most up-to-date system firmware.
To use the SR-IOV feature, PCIe SR-IOV devices must run at least device firmware version 3.01. Perform the following steps to update the firmware for the Sun Dual 10-Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ PCIe 2.0 network adapters:
Determine whether you need to upgrade the FCode version on the device.
Perform these commands from the ok prompt:
{0} ok cd path-to-device {0} ok .properties
The version value in the output must be one of the following:
Sun Dual 10GbE SFP+ PCIe 2.0 LP FCode 3.01 4/2/2012
Sun Dual 10GbE SFP+ PCIe 2.0 EM FCode 3.01 4/2/2012
Sun Dual 10GbE SFP+ PCIe 2.0 FEM FCode 3.01 4/2/2012
Download patch ID 13932765 from My Oracle Support.
Install the patch.
The patch package includes a document that describes how to use the tool to perform the upgrade.
InfiniBand SR-IOV. To use this feature, your system must run at least the following version of the system firmware:
SPARC T4 – 8.4
SPARC T5, SPARC M5, and SPARC M6 – 9.1.0.x
Fujitsu M10 Systems – XCP2210
To support the Dual 40-Gigabit (4x) InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter M2 as an InfiniBand SR-IOV device, the card or express module must run at least version 2.11.2010 of the firmware. You can obtain this version of the firmware by installing the following patches:
Low Profile (X4242A) – Patch ID 16340059
Express Module (X4243A) – Patch ID 16340042
Use the Oracle Solaris 11.1 fwflash command to list and update the firmware in the primary domain. To list the current firmware version, use the fwflash -lc IB command. To update the firmware, use the the fwflash -f firmware-file -d device command. See the fwflash(1M) man page.
To use InfiniBand SR-IOV, ensure that InfiniBand switches have at least firmware version 2.1.2. You can obtain this version of the firmware by installing the following patches:
Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 36 (X2821A-Z) – Patch ID 16221424
Sun Network QDR InfiniBand GatewaySwitch (X2826A-Z) – Patch ID 16221538
For information about how to update the firmware, see your InfiniBand switch documentation.
Fibre Channel SR-IOV. To use this feature, your system must run at least the following version of the system firmware:
SPARC T4 – 8.4.2.c
SPARC T5, SPARC M5, and SPARC M6 – 9.1.2.d
Fujitsu M10 Systems – XCP2210
The firmware on the Sun Storage 16 Gb Fibre Channel Universal HBA, Emulex must be at least revision 1.1.60.1 to enable the Fibre Channel SR-IOV feature. The installation instructions are provided with the firmware.
Caution - Only perform the firmware update to the Fibre Channel card if you plan to use the Fibre Channel SR-IOV feature. |
Software Requirements.
Ethernet SR-IOV. To use the SR-IOV feature, all domains must be running at least the Oracle Solaris 11.1.10.5.0 OS or the Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 OS plus the required patches in Table 1–3.
InfiniBand SR-IOV. The following domains must run the supported Oracle Solaris OS:
The primary domain or a non-primary root domain must be running at least the Oracle Solaris 11.1.10.6.0 OS.
The I/O domains can run at least the Oracle Solaris 11.1.10.6.0 OS or the Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 OS plus the required patches.
Update the /etc/system file on any root domain that has an InfiniBand SR-IOV physical function from which you plan to configure virtual functions.
set ldc:ldc_maptable_entries = 0x20000
Update the /etc/system file on the I/O domain to which you add a virtual function.
set rdsv3:rdsv3_fmr_pool_size = 16384
Fibre Channel SR-IOV. To use the SR-IOV feature, all domains must be running at least the Oracle Solaris 11.1.17.4.0 OS or the Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 OS plus Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1.1 patch ID 150817-02 and the required patches in Table 1–2.
Non-primary root domains can be used by the direct I/O and SR-IOV features. This feature is supported on the SPARC T4, SPARC T5, SPARC M5, and SPARC M6 platforms and Fujitsu M10 systems.
Hardware Requirements.
In addition to the PCIe cards for the direct I/O and SR-IOV features in https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&doctype=REFERENCE&id=1325454.1, other PCIe cards can be used only in non-primary root domains. To determine which cards you can use on your platform, see your platform's hardware documentation.
Firmware Requirements.
SPARC T4 platforms must run at least version 8.4.0.a of the system firmware.
SPARC T5, SPARC M5, and SPARC M6 platforms must run at least version 9.1.0.x of the system firmware.
Fujitsu M10 systems must run at least version XCP2210 of the system firmware.
Software Requirements.
All domains must be running at least the Oracle Solaris 11.1.10.5.0 OS or the Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 OS plus the required patches in .
The recovery mode feature automatically recovers domain configurations that cannot be booted because of faulty or missing resources.
Hardware Requirements.
The recovery mode feature is supported on the SPARC T5, SPARC M5, and SPARC M6 platforms and Fujitsu M10 systems.
Firmware Requirements.
SPARC T5, SPARC M5, and SPARC M6 platforms must run at least version 9.1.0.x of the system firmware.
To use the recovery mode feature on Fujitsu M10 systems, implement the firmware requirements in Fujitsu M10 Systems Product Notes.
Software Requirements.
All domains must be running at least the Oracle Solaris 11.1.10.5.0 OS or the Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 OS plus the required patches in .
You can obtain the latest packages for both the Oracle Solaris 10 OS and Oracle Solaris 11 OS for the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1 release. Note that the Oracle VM Server for SPARC software is included by default with the Oracle Solaris 11 OS.
Oracle Solaris 10 OS. Download the OVM_Server_SPARC-3_1.zip Oracle VM Server for SPARC package from My Oracle Support. See How to Download the Logical Domains Manager Software (Oracle Solaris 10) in Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1 Administration Guide.
Oracle Solaris 11 OS. Obtain the ldomsmanager package from the Oracle Solaris 11 Support Repository or from My Oracle Support. See How to Upgrade to the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1 Software (Oracle Solaris 11) in Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.1 Administration Guide.
Also see the article “How to Update Oracle Solaris 11 Systems Using Support Repository Updates” and “How to Update to Oracle Solaris 11.1 Using the Image Packaging System”.
For Oracle Solaris 10, the OVM_Server_SPARC-3_1.zip file that you download contains the following:
Oracle VM Server for SPARC software (SUNWldm.v)
The ldm(1M), ldmconfig(1M), and ldmd(1M) man pages in the SUNWldm.v package, which are installed when the package is installed
Installation script for Oracle VM Server for SPARC software (install-ldm)
Oracle VM Server for SPARC Management Information Base (SUNWldmib)
Physical-to-Virtual Conversion Tool (SUNWldmp2v)
The directory structure of the zip file is similar to the following:
Install/ install-ldm Product/ Japanese/ README.txt SUNWjldm.v SUNWjldmp2v SUNWldm.v SUNWldmib SUNWldmp2v README.txt
You can find system firmware for your platform at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/systems/patches/firmware/index.html.
You can find the required the Logical Domains Manager and Oracle Solaris OS patches at http://support.oracle.com.
Late-breaking information and known issues for this product are included in the documentation library at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/vm-sparc-194287.html.
For the Oracle Solaris 10 OS, the Oracle VM Server for SPARC man pages are installed on your system as part of the SUNWldm.v and SUNWldmp2v packages. You can install the Japanese translations of the man pages on your Oracle Solaris 10 system with the SUNWjldm.v and SUNWjldmp2v packages.
For the Oracle Solaris 11 OS, the Oracle VM Server for SPARC man pages and the Japanese translations are installed on your system as part of the ldomsmanager package.
The following table shows the documentation that is available for this Oracle VM Server for SPARC release. These documents are available in both HTML and PDF formats unless otherwise indicated.
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