Destroying the infrastructure is a easy task in all the environments.In oracle VM for SPARC also ,you can easily remove the guest domains in few seconds. The same way you can also remove the virtual disk resources and virtual network resources. In some cases you may not able to remove the resources if its in […]
How to Add the Same ISO image file in Multiple LDOMS ?
In oracle VM for SPARC (LDOM), you need to attach the ISO file to each logical domain, for the first time operating system installation. If you have pre-configured jumpstart , You can use it for the guest domain operating system installation. If you don’t have jumpstart,then you need to install it using the ISO image. […]
How to perform Live domain migration on LDOM ? Oracle VM SPARC
In Oracle VM for SPARC,we can migrate the guest domains to another system without any downtime. This is similar to vmotion on VMware ESXi. This feature provides the operational flexibility to the customers who don’t want the system to be down for system maintenance.Prior to the system maintenance ,we can easily move the guest domains to […]
How to Dynamically add the resources in Oracle VM for SPARC ?
The beauty of LDOM or Oracle VM for SPARC is that resources can be dynamically added or removed from the domains(Primary/Guest). This will help you to perform the load balancing between the guest domains on the physical server. Dynamic resource allocation is only possible if the guest domain operating system is booted.If you add the resource during […]
How to Configure the I/O Domain on Oracle VM for SPARC ?
If you allow any of the guest domain or control domain to access the any I/O (PCI) cards directly from the hardware ,usually that domain is called I/O domain or root domain.By default, two virtual I/O services that you need to configure on primary domain to provide the I/O to the guest domains.One is virtual […]
How to configure the Guest domains on LDOM ?
Guest domain is a top level virtual machine which we can create using the control domain. Guest domain will not perform any administrative operation on ldom but runs its own operating system on it.Once you have completed the Oracle VM for SPARC tutorial 1 ,then you can start following this article.We will see how we […]
LDOM Oracle VM for SPARC – Tutorial 1
SUN LDOMS aka Oracle VM for SPARC is a complete virtual machine that runs an independent operating system and contains its own virtual CPU’s, Storage, Memory, Cryptographic and console. Unlike Solaris zones, LDOMS can run its own operating system with different kernel patch levels. You can also install Solaris 8, Solaris 9, Solaris 10 and Solaris 11 […]
How to Create Datastore using ISCSI LUNS on VMware?
Once you have configured the ISCSI storage on VMware ESXi, you can start creating new datastore using those ISCSI LUNS. By default ,the wizard will try to create filesystem type as VMFS5 and this filesystem can be able to support up to 2TB LUNS. If you want that datastore to be accessed across VMware ESX/ESXi […]
How to Break the ZFS mirror on Solaris ?
This article is going to explain how to break the ZFS mirror on Solaris.I am not sure how this will be useful in real production environment. Because splitting can be possible only on mirrored zpool. Unlike veritas volume manager diskgroup split, ZFS is not going to divide the zpool. Its just remove the mirror and […]
How to get VMware ESXi and VCenter License keys ?
Managing the license on VMware ESxi and VCenter is one of main job for system administrator.After the installation of the product, you may need to add the new license to increase the capacity and you may need to remove the old license keys from the those products. Sometimes you may need to pull out the existing […]