{"id":3,"date":"2007-07-12T20:18:39","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T00:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/?p=3"},"modified":"2007-07-13T15:00:43","modified_gmt":"2007-07-13T05:00:43","slug":"sun-ldoms-on-coolthreads-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/sun-ldoms-on-coolthreads-servers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun LDOMs on Coolthreads servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/ig_ldoms_howitworks.gif\" alt=\"ig_ldoms_howitworks.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I set up LDOMs on a T2000 recently to have a play and learn about them. This <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\/blueprints\/0207\/820-0832.pdf\" title=\"pdf\" target=\"_blank\">pdf<\/a><\/strong> is a good intro to LDOMs.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, the steps are; install solaris (11\/06 or greater), upgrade firmware, install LDOM software, configure installed solaris instance as the first control LDOM, reboot. repeat, rinse, RTFM etc.<\/p>\n<p>A word of advice, always read <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.sun.com\/source\/819-6429-11\/LDoms_RR_RelNotes.html\" title=\"release notes\" target=\"_blank\">release notes<\/a><\/strong>.  I hit a bug where I could not add\/remove cpus from the LDOMs I had created. big problem! After bit of googling I found the section &#8220;<em>Dynamic Reconfiguration of Virtual CPUs with Cryptographic Units<\/em>&#8221; in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.sun.com\/source\/819-6429-11\/LDoms_RR_RelNotes.html\" title=\"release notes\" target=\"_blank\">release notes<\/a><\/strong>. Bingo.<\/p>\n<p>So I feel that LDOMs are a bit bleeding edge still. I&#8217;ll wait a bit before i start using them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 I set up LDOMs on a T2000 recently to have a play and learn about them. This pdf is a good intro to LDOMs. Basically, the steps are; install solaris (11\/06 or greater), upgrade firmware, install LDOM software, configure installed solaris instance as the first control LDOM, reboot. repeat, rinse, RTFM etc. A word [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunsol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}