Liam Merwick's Weblog

Here are the commands needed to switch between the ALOM and ILOM shells on the T5xx0 SPARC CMT servers. I'm saving this here because I can never easily find it when I go searching Google or docs.sun.com for it.

ILOM -> ALOM
sc> userclimode admin default
sc> logout

ALOM -> ILOM
-> set /SP/users/admin cli_mode=alom
-> exit

For anyone running OpenSolaris (either 2009.06 or the latest 2010.02 development builds), you'll be glad to know that I've pushed the LDoms 1.2 software to the /release and /dev repositories. You can get it by running:

pfexec pkg install ldomsmanager

If you were previously running LDoms 1.1 from the IPS repo, the new version will start running once you do a 'svcadm restart ldmd'.

If you were previously running LDoms 1.2 or earlier which was installed via pkgadd, then do a 'pkgrm SUNWldm' before the pkg install (your existing LDoms configs will be kept).

I notice that Markus Weber has posted a  slick demo he produced which shows a warm migration of an LDom from one system to another while Solaris keeps on running in the domain. He gives a good overview of how domain migration works on LDoms as well as showing the command-line instructions.

I'm giving a presentation at the next meeting of the London OpenSolaris User Group on Wed Oct 17th at Sun's Customer Briefing Centre, 45 King William Street (map here) - refreshments are from 18:00 with the presentation starting at 18:45. I plan to give an introduction to LDoms, an recap of the just released LDoms 1.0.1 plus a quick overview of some of the upcoming features.