Monday Jan 05, 2009
Monday Jan 05, 2009
LDoms 1.1 was released just before Christmas and its available for download here!
LDoms 1.1 greatly expands the capabilities and performance of Sun servers with CoolThreads technology (UltraSPARC T1, UltraSPARC T2, and UltraSPARC T2 Plus systems).
LDoms 1.1 adds new features, such as:
- Warm and Cold Migration
- Network NIU Hybrid IO
- VLAN Support for Virtual Network Interface and Virtual Switch
- Public XML Interface and XMPP Connection with the Domain Manager
- Virtual IO Dynamic Reconfiguration
- Virtual Disk Multipathing and Failover
- Virtual Switch Support for Link Aggregated Interfaces
- iostat(1M) Support in Guest Domains
- And dozens of other product improvements
I recommend reading Alex Chartre's LDoms 1.1 post for more specifics on the new features and for usage examples.
Included in the download are optional LDoms System Management Tools:
- Ldoms Management Information Base (MIB)
- libvirt for LDoms
LDoms 1.1 Documentation is available at http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/ldoms
- Logical Domains (LDoms) 1.1 Administration Guide (html)(pdf)
- Logical Domains (LDoms) 1.1 Release Notes (html)(pdf)
- Logical Domains (LDoms) Man Page Guide (pdf)
- Logical Domains (LDoms) Management Information Base (MIB) 1.0.1 Administration Guide (html)(pdf)
- Logical Domains (LDoms) Management Information Base (MIB) 1.0.1 Release Notes (html)(pdf)
- Libvirt for LDoms 1.0.1 Release Notes (html)(pdf)
- Libvirt for LDoms 1.0.1 Administration Guide (html)(pdf)
See the README and/or Release Notes for required Software and patches
The key components needed to utilize the LDoms technology are:- Sun servers with CoolThreads technology (UltraSPARC T1, UltraSPARC T2, and UltraSPARC T2 Plus systems) with required system firmware.
- Solaris 10 OS
- Logical Domains Manager software that is used to create and manage logical domains on CoolThreads servers.
Support
- Product Information on sun.com
- LDoms Forum on opensolaris.org
- Logical Domains for CoolThreads Servers Developers Forum on Sun Developer Network
- Ldoms Portal on BigAdmin
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