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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 1.1 Admin Guide (pdf) (html) Latest LDoms 1.1 Release Notes (pdf) (html) Latest 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

Eric Sharakan - LDoms 1.2 is out!

Jul 4, 6:37 AM

LDoms 1.2 is now available. I've included a snippet of the initial marketing announcement below. There will be more official marketing activity in the coming weeks (including the updating of ...

Octave Orgeron - He's Dead Jim!

Jun 16, 7:02 AM

Well the rumor on the street this week is that Sun has killed off the UltraSPARC-RK or ROCK processor. This was suppose to be a 16 core processor for the upcoming SuperNova servers. This would be an ...

Eric Sharakan - OpenSolaris & LDoms

Jun 1, 9:19 PM

OpenSolaris 2009.06 officially launched today. The big news is that it supports SPARC. I was going to post a nice article about how it is also supported under LDoms, but Marcus & Liam did a much ...

Octave Orgeron - SPARC64 Strikes Back on Super-Computing

May 14, 6:58 PM

It would appear that Fujitsu has learned a lot from Sun's CMT processor designs and is testing out its new SPARC64 VIIIfx or Venus processor which is an 8 core SPARC64 chip that can perform 128 ...

Octave Orgeron - Mergers and Legal Dribble

May 14, 6:19 PM

The SEC filings on the merger are available for the public to review . The document has lots of interesting details about the merger process, conditions, etc. Reading through the document provides an ...