Overview of the Oracle VM Server for SPARC Software

This chapter provides an overview of the Oracle VM Server for SPARC software.

Oracle VM Server for SPARC provides highly efficient, enterprise-class virtualization capabilities for SPARC T-Series and SPARC M-Series platforms, and Fujitsu M10 platforms. Using the Oracle VM Server for SPARC software, you can create up to 128 virtual servers, called logical domains, on a single system. This kind of configuration enables you to take advantage of the massive thread scale offered by SPARC T-Series and SPARC M-Series platforms, Fujitsu M10 platforms and the Oracle Solaris OS.

This chapter covers the following topics:

• About Oracle VM Server for SPARC and Oracle Solaris OS Versions

• Hypervisor and Logical Domains

• Logical Domains Manager

• Oracle VM Server for SPARC Physical-to-Virtual Conversion Tool

• Oracle VM Server for SPARC Configuration Assistant

• Oracle VM Server for SPARC Management Information Base

• Oracle VM Server for SPARC Troubleshooting