Hi Ted, Currently, you can not assign a PCI-E/PCI-X slot directly to a guest domain. We can only virtualize network ports and storage targets (SAN LUNs and DASD) to guest domains. Unfortunately, that does not include tape devices. However, depending on the type of system you have, it's possible to create a split PCI configuration where you assign a PCI-E leaf to a guest domain, turning it into an I/O domain.. basically it owns that part of the PCI-E bus. The limitation there is that at the moment, that would only include the T2000 and it has a limited number of PCI-E/PCI-X slots. If you were to split a T2000, you would end up with one I/O domain that has a single PCI-E slot, while the other would have the remaining PCI-E/PCI-X slots. This also creates the problem of boot storage as you would have an older T2000 with a SAS card in a PCI-X slot or a newer T2000 with the SAS controller on the mainboard. That controller can not be split, so you would need to figure out bootable storage for the second I/O domain. Altogether, not a great solution at this time when you need direct access to a HBA or a SAN device. However, in the future with features such as Hybrid I/O, this will change. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Systems Engineer http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/sysadmin/ http://unixconsole.blogspot.com unixconsole at yahoo.com *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
----- Original Message ---- From: Ted Matej <[email protected]> To: ldoms-discuss at opensolaris.org Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 1:45:29 PM Subject: [ldoms-discuss] Backup media server in LDOM Hi Trying to consolidate backup applications on a CMT server. I would like to understand if anyone has tried to deploy a Veritas Netbackup media server successfully in a guest LDOM. If so what kind of performance are you obtaining? The question is around FC LTO-3 support on a Sun L500. Regards Ted -- This message was posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ ldoms-discuss mailing list ldoms-discuss at opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ldoms-discuss ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping
