Oracle® Virtual Networking QDR and EDR Host Drivers for Oracle Solaris 11.3 Release Notes

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Updated: September 2016
 
 

Naming Guidelines for Oracle Solaris vNICs and vHBAs

The vNIC and vHBA must have different names.

In the Oracle Solaris OS, the names of virtual resources are restricted to the following lengths:

  • vNICs: 10 characters

  • vHBAs: 15 characters

  • Server profiles: 31 characters

With the Oracle Solaris OS, you must use the standard notation to name vNICs and vHBAs such as the following:

  • vnic-name.server-profilex

  • vhba-name.server-profilex

Replace x with a numeral at the end of a vNIC and vHBA name so that the vNIC and vHBA receive correctly enumerated instance numbers. There are no special numerals in the vNIC or vHBA name string (for example, 0 is not reserved). You can use any number of numerals in the vNIC and vHBA strings, as long as the entire name string complies with the name length limitation.

Some examples of acceptable vNIC and vHBA names:

  • vnic0.profile1, vnic01.profile1, vnic001.profile1

  • vhba1.profile1, vhba123.profile1, vhba987.profile1

  • oracle2.profile1, webapps9.profile1, backups3.profile1