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• Caiman, Solaris Install Revisited
  
• Crossbow: Network Virtualization and Resource Control
  
• Ethernet bridge module for Solaris
  
• Multi-pathing software (MPxIO)
  
• NPort ID Virtualization (NPIV)
  
• RBridge (IETF TRILL) support
  

LDoms Overview Logical Domains, or LDoms, technology allows a user to allocate a system's various resources, such as memory, CPUs, and devices, into logical groupings and create multiple, discrete systems, each with their own operating system, resources, and identity within a single computer system. Getting Started Sun's LDoms site BigAdmin Site for LDoms Sun BluePrints LDoms Beginner's Guide Documentation LDoms 1.0.3 Admin Guide (pdf) (html) LDoms 1.0.3 Release Notes (pdf), (html) LDoms 1.0.2 Admin Guide (pdf) (html) LDoms 1.0.2 Release Notes (pdf), (html) LDoms 1.0.1 Admin Guide (pdf) (html) LDoms 1.0.1 Release Notes (pdf), (html) LDoms 1.0 Admin Guide (pdf) LDoms 1.0 Release Notes (pdf), (html) UltraSPARC T1 Documentation Site UltraSPARC T2 Documentation Site UltraSPARC Hypervisor API (pdf) Get the Software Download the LDM Software and Platform Firmware Discussions Join the OpenSolaris LDoms Discussion LDoms Forum Wikis Logical Domains Wiki Solaris Cluster Wiki on LDoms Support Wiki Reviews T5120/T5220 Review, by Octave Orgeron (PDF) The SPARC Enterprise T5140/T5240 and Virtualization, By Octave Orgeron (PDF) Technical Papers An Introduction to Logical Domains, Part 1 - By Octave Orgeron (Reprinted from ;login: The Magazine of USENIX, vol. 32, no. 4 (Berkeley, CA: USENIX Association, [2007]), pg. 20-24. (PDF) An Introduction to Logical Domains, Part 2 - By Octave Orgeron (Reprinted from ;login: The Magazine of USENIX, vol. 32, no. 5 (Berkeley, CA: USENIX Association, [2007]), pg. 26-34. (PDF) An Introduction to Logical Domains, Part 3 - By Octave Orgeron (Reprinted from ;login: The Magazine of USENIX, vol. 33, no. 1 (Berkeley, CA: USENIX Association, [2008]), pg. 39-47. (PDF) An Introduction to Logical Domains, Part 4 - By Octave Orgeron (Reprinted from ;login: The Magazine of USENIX, vol. 33, no. 2 (Berkeley, CA: USENIX Association, [2008]), pg. 24-33. (PDF) Sun BluePrints, Sun Server Virtualization Technology, by Jeff Savit (HTML) Sun BluePrints, Solaris Operating System Hardware Virtualization Product Architecture, by Chien-Hua Yen (PDF) Sun BluePrints, Using Logical Domains and CoolThreads Technology: Improving Scalability and System Utilization, by Ning Sun and Lee Anne Simmons (PDF) Sun BluePrints, LDOMS I/O Best Practices: Data Reliability with Logical Domains, by Peter A. Wilson (PDF) Sun BluePrints, LDOMS I/O Best Practices: Network Availability with Logical Domains, by Peter A. Wilson (PDF) LDoms Community Cookbook - Tasty Recipes for Sun Logical Domains (Wiki Page) New Deploying Sugar CRM on Sun Logical Domains for Increased Scalability (PDF) New Presentations Presentation by Eric Sharakan to NEOSUG, Sep 11, 2007. (PDF) Presentation by Liam Merwick to IEOSUG and LOSUG , Sep/Oct, 2007. (PDF) LDoms introduction by Nick Kloski. (video) Blog Entries Introduction to LDom's LDom Installation Configuring the Control Domain Time to Build a Guest Domain

Blogs

Octave Orgeron - SPARC Enterprise T5440 Announced and LDoms Cookbook

Oct 15, 5:50 PM

Finally, the SPARC Enterprise T5440 has arrived ! It's nice to see this beast released into the market. It's amazing to think that in 4 rack units, there are 256 threads, 32 cores, 4 CMT processors, ...

sharakan - New Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server runs LDoms 1.0.3

Oct 13, 9:06 AM

Today Sun is announcing the latest in our line of sun4v SPARC CMT systems: the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server . This is a four socket server based on our UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor. With up to ...

Octave Orgeron - Sun Netra T5440 Released!

Sep 30, 8:52 PM

Sun has announced a Netra version of the UltraSPARC-T2 Plus architecture, the Netra T5440 . The first thing I noticed about this server is that it's not the four-way UltraSPARC-T2 Plus server that ...

Octave Orgeron - Sun BluePrints on LDoms and I/O

Sep 30, 8:43 PM

A good friend of mine at Sun, Peter Wilson has released two excellent Sun BluePrints on I/O best practices for LDoms: LDOMS I/O Best Practices: Data Reliability with Logical Domains LDOMS I/O Best ...

Octave Orgeron - Review: SPARC Enterprise T5140/T5240 and Virtualization

Sep 30, 8:40 PM

I've completed my review of the T5240 with a focus on the hardware features and the ability to leverage virtualization. I think it will give people a good technical understanding of the hardware and ...