Wednesday Dec 24, 2008
LDoms 1.1
Just in time for the holidays, LDoms version 1.1 is now available! This is a major new release of Logical Domains technology, with an extensive list of new features & bugfixes. Here are the highlights:
Major Features Introduced in LDoms version 1.1:
- 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 DR
- Virtual Disk Multipathing and Failover
- Virtual Switch Support for Link Aggregated Interface
- iostat(1M) Support in Guest Domains
Alex has more details on these features here.
Other Improvements Include:
- Improved Interrupt Distribution (CR 6671853)
- Performance improvements for virtual IO (CR 6689871, 6640564)
- Solaris Installation to Single Slice Disk (CR 6685162)
- Numerous Improvements and Extension to our Domain Services Infrastructure (CR 6560890)
- Improved Console Behavior when not using Virtual Console (CR 6581309)
- VDisk EFI Label Support for Disk Image (CR 6558966)
- VDisk Support for Disk Managed by Multipathing Software (Veritas DMP, EMC Powerpath) (CR 6694540, 6637560)
- LDoms Manager Improvements to IO FMA (CR 6463270)
- ldm list -l now displays MAC assigned to guest (CR 6586046)
- Improved Error Messages (CR 6741733, 6590124, 6715063)
- ldm list -o provides fine-grained control of configuration display options (CR 6562222)
- More accurate utilization percentage reporting (CR 6637955, 6709020)
- Can now explicitly set a domain's hostid (CR 6670605)
- Improved persistence of VIO service and VDS volume names (CR 6729544, 6771264)
- More predictable behavior when deciding which cpus to DR out of a domain (CR 6567372)
- More accurate annotations in ldm ls-spconfig output (CR 6744046)
- Better support for large, fragmented memory configs in a domain (CR 6749507)
- Supports setting persistent WANboot keys from OBP (CR 6510365)
- Lots of Bug Fixes (over 100)
Get it here!
Posted at 12:37PM Dec 24, 2008 by Eric Sharakan in Sun |
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