Glossary
auditreduce
Command to merge and select audit records from audit trail files (see the auditreduce
(8) man page).
authorization
A way in which to determine who has permission to perform tasks and access data by using Oracle Solaris OS rights.
compliance
Determining whether a system's configuration is in compliance with a predefined security profile.
constraints
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.
control domain
A privileged domain that creates and manages other logical domains and services by using the Logical Domains Manager.
DMA
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.
drd
Oracle Solaris OS dynamic reconfiguration daemon for Logical Domains Manager (see the drd
(8) man page).
I/O
Input/output devices, such as internal disks and PCIe controllers and their attached adapters and devices.
I/O domain
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.
ILOM
Integrated Lights Out Manager, a dedicated system of hardware and supporting software that enables you to manage your server independently of the operating system.
logical domain
A virtual machine comprised of a discrete logical grouping of resources, which has its own operating system and identity within a single computer system. Also called a domain.
Logical Domains Manager
A CLI to create and manage logical domains and allocate resources to domains.
MAC
Media access control address, which Logical Domains Manager can automatically assign or you can assign manually.
mem
, memory
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.
metadb
Command to create and delete replicas of the Solaris Volume Manager metadevice state database (see the metadb
(8) man page).
OID
Object identifier, which is a sequence of numbers that uniquely identifies each object in a MIB.
P2V
Oracle VM Server for SPARC Physical-to-Virtual Conversion Tool. See Chapter 19, Oracle VM Server for SPARC Physical-to-Virtual Conversion Tool in Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.3 Administration Guide.
physical domain
The scope of resources that are managed by a single Oracle VM Server for SPARC instance. A physical domain might be a complete physical system as is the case of supported SPARC T-series and SPARC S-series servers. Or, it might be either the entire system or a subset of the system as is the case of supported SPARC M-series servers.
physical function
A PCI function that supports the SR-IOV capabilities as defined in the SR-IOV specification. A physical function contains the SR-IOV capability structure and is used to manage the SR-IOV functionality. Physical functions are fully featured PCIe functions that can be discovered, managed, and manipulated like any other PCIe device. Physical functions have full configuration resources, and can be used to configure or control the PCIe device.
RAID
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, which enables you to combine independent disks into a logical unit.
SAX
Simple API for XML parser, which traverses an XML document. The SAX parser is event-based and used mostly for streaming data.
service domain
Logical domain that provides devices, such as virtual switches, virtual console connectors, and virtual disk servers, to other logical domains.
service processor (SP)
The SP, also known as the system controller (SC), monitors and runs the physical machine.
SP configuration
Name of the logical domain SP configuration that is saved on the service processor.
vcc
, vconscon
Virtual console concentrator service with a specific port range to assign to guest domains.
vcons
, vconsole
Virtual console for accessing system-level messages. A connection is achieved by connecting to the vconscon
service in the control domain at a specific port.
vdisk
A virtual disk is a generic block device associated with different types of physical devices, volumes, or files.
vdsdev
, vdiskserverdevice
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 function
A PCI function that is associated with a physical function. A virtual function is a lightweight PCIe function that shares one or more physical resources with the physical function and with other virtual functions that are associated with the same physical function. Virtual functions are only permitted to have configuration resources for its own behavior.
VNIC
A VNIC is a virtual NIC. When configured by using the dladm create-vnic
command, a virtual NIC behaves like a physical NIC. You can configure a virtual NIC on an SR-IOV virtual function and on a virtual network device (VNET). See Creating Virtual NICs on SR-IOV Virtual Functions and Configuring Virtual NICs on Virtual Network Devices.
vnet
Virtual network device implements a virtual Ethernet device and communicates with other vnet
devices in the system by using the virtual network switch (vswitch
).
vntsd
Oracle Solaris OS virtual network terminal server daemon for domain consoles (see the vntsd
(8) man page).