Controlling the Amount of Physical Network Bandwidth That Is Consumed by a Virtual Network Device

The bandwidth resource control feature enables you to limit the physical network bandwidth consumed by a virtual network device. This feature ensures that one guest domain does not take over the available physical network bandwidth and leave none for the others. This feature is supported on a service domain that runs at least the Oracle Solaris 11 OS and is configured with a virtual switch.

Use the ldm add-vnet and ldm set-vnet commands to specify the bandwidth limit by providing a value for the maxbw property. Use the ldm list-bindings or the ldm list-domain -o network command to view the maxbw property value for an existing virtual network device. The minimum bandwidth limit is 10 Mbps.