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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 Get the Software Download the LDM Software and Platform Firmware Discussions Join the OpenSolaris LDoms Discussion LDoms Forum Wikis Logical Domains Wiki 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) 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 - LDoms 1.0.3 is Out!

May 15, 10:21 AM

LDoms version 1.0.3 has been released. It will be available from the normal download site before the end of today, or through this link right now. I have updated the documentation links on the ...

Octave Orgeron - OpenSolaris.com

May 5, 3:22 PM

Sun has released the results of Project Indiana as OpenSolaris . While this is has been a heavily debated decision amongst OpenSolaris users and developers alike, the release has been made. There are ...

Octave Orgeron - Sun BluePrint on Using LDoms

May 1, 7:43 PM

Here's an interesting article on leveraging LDoms for application servers and databases. The article has some interesting ideas and tools for doing the benchmarks. I might have to leverage those for ...

Octave Orgeron - Fourth LDom Article Available to Community!

May 1, 7:36 PM

My fourth article on LDoms is now available to the community here . For those who have not had a chance to read it or do not have a USENIX membership, the article wraps up my series of articles on ...

sharakan - UltraSPARC T2 Plus & LDoms 1.0.2

Apr 9, 6:13 PM

Today we announced our T5140 / T5240 platforms, based around the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor. This is the first CMT platform which supports multiple processor chips (2), providing up to 128 hardware ...