[ldoms-discuss] T5440 LDOM fails to boot ISO of S10U9

2011-03-03 Thread Ben Taylor
I have a T5440, fimware and patches current (as of yesterday) I have built up a client domain following the Admin guide, and am trying to boot from the cdrom image. I'm getting the following messages: Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Connecting to console "l

Re: [ldoms-discuss] T5440 LDOM fails to boot ISO of S10U9

2011-03-03 Thread Ben Taylor
jive/thread.jspa?messageID=244292 > > > On 3/3/2011 4:39 PM, Ben Taylor wrote: >> >> WARNING: /virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/disk@1: Timeout >> receiving packet from LDC ... retrying > > ___ > ldoms-discuss

Re: [ldoms-discuss] link based IPMP and LDOMS

2011-03-29 Thread Ben Taylor
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Octave Orgeron wrote: > I'm inclined to agree, especially if you are not creating a separate service > domain. Of course, I'd rather do link aggregation at the control domain level > as > well, which removes the whole IPMP configuration scheme. BTW, IPMP has chang

Re: [ldoms-discuss] link based IPMP and LDOMS

2011-03-29 Thread Ben Taylor
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Octave Orgeron wrote: > Take a look at Solaris Cluster as an alternative. I've seen a number of things > slide with VCS over the past few years when it comes to supporting new > features > in operating systems and virtualization technology. not an option, unfortu

Re: [ldoms-discuss] Request help - Ldom with alternate IO domain

2011-04-03 Thread Ben Taylor
I have several T5440's which I'm in the process of standing up an IO domain in addition to the master domain. I've seen some things about how to get around the issue where the SAS controller is on set of pci controllers and the onboard nics are on the other. I seem to recall that Solaris once had

Re: [ldoms-discuss] I/O errors trying to access exported disks from client LDom

2011-04-12 Thread Ben Taylor
In LDOM 2.0, you can export single slices. However, I'm wondering why the OP isn't just exporting the 2 whole disks and doing the SVM and ZFS work locally to the LDOM. It seems much more complicate exporting a bunch of single slices to make it look like there are physical disks, and expecting the

[ldoms-discuss] fixing a SAN boot-device in an IO Domain

2011-05-07 Thread Ben Taylor
I have a T5440 with an LDOM and IO Domain. I had to tear down the domain to do some maintenance, but now cannot find the right device name to get the system booting. I can boot off the network, but even being able to see the boot device, I cannot figure out exactly what I should be using since th

Re: [ldoms-discuss] fixing a SAN boot-device in an IO Domain

2011-05-07 Thread Ben Taylor
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Hudes, Dana wrote: > You could manually mount the devices in the io domain and see if it looks > like a root disk. If so then find etc/nodename on it and that will tell you. > With 20 to check I would cobble a shell script together which checks nodename > file for

[ldoms-discuss] IO Domains and CPU socket affinity

2011-05-17 Thread Ben Taylor
I am standing up an IO Domain LDOM on a T5440. I remember seeing some things in the documentation about Socket affinity and PCI buses. I am using PCI_2 and 64 threads (1 socket), but am just wondering if there's something I should be doing to better align the threads with the PCI bus, or am I cha

Re: [ldoms-discuss] IO Domains and CPU socket affinity

2011-05-17 Thread Ben Taylor
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:44 PM, terence.sm...@oracle.com wrote: > > On 05/17/11 15:37, Hung-ShengTsao (Lao Tsao) Ph.D. wrote: > > http://www.fujitsu.com/downloads/SPARCE/whitepapers/T5440-wp-e-200907.pdf > show you tha arch diagram > Since , AFAIK, you can not assign specific  vcpu to LDOM domain

Re: [ldoms-discuss] Veritas

2011-05-18 Thread Ben Taylor
Well, for 9i, you are limited to VCS 5.0MP3RP4 Live upgrade with ZFS root has saved my company's bacon more time than I can count. The occasional loss of grub menu recently after an lu_activate was annoying but resulted in our downtime window being about 75 minutes longer than expected for a 4 n

Re: [ldoms-discuss] IO Domains and CPU socket affinity

2011-05-19 Thread Ben Taylor
a server across the cpus in the best way possible. Any thoughts? > Tony > > Forwarded conversation > Subject: [ldoms-discuss] IO Domains and CPU socket affinity > > > From: Ben Taylor > Date: Tue, May 17, 2011 at 3:14 PM > To: ldoms-discuss@opens

[ldoms-discuss] clustered IO Domain LDOMs, isolating boot disks.

2011-05-26 Thread Ben Taylor
I'm in the process of migrating an existing cluster T5440, to Clustered LDOM configuration using IO Domains. What's the right way to isolate the boot disks from 1 LDOM from being seen in the second LDOM, and vice versa? I figure it's some sort of ssd.conf change based on the WWN of the boot devic

Re: [ldoms-discuss] clustered IO Domain LDOMs, isolating boot disks.

2011-05-26 Thread Ben Taylor
"Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D." wrote: > > osc 3.3 please see this link > http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19680-01/html/821-1687/ > there is also doc for 3.2 > > > On 5/26/2011 3:31 PM, Ben Taylor wrote: > > I'm in the process of migrating an ex

Re: [ldoms-discuss] clustered IO Domain LDOMs, isolating boot disks.

2011-05-26 Thread Ben Taylor
problem. Ben > > > Sent from my iPad > Hung-Sheng Tsao ( LaoTsao) Ph.D > > On May 26, 2011, at 7:38 PM, Ben Taylor wrote: > >> Hmmm. I neglected to mention I'm running VCS and ZFS root. >> >> >> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:27 PM, "Hung-Sheng Tsao

[ldoms-discuss] flashing an existing ldom primary image to a new host

2011-06-03 Thread Ben Taylor
trying to shorten up a migration from host to ldom. I have an image of a working LDOM 2.0 primary from a T5440 that I am considering flashing onto a new (non-LDOM'd) T5440. Anyone tried this before and have a good experience? Ben ___ ldoms-discuss mail

Re: [ldoms-discuss] determining the correct path for an IO domain's SAN Boot device

2011-06-29 Thread Ben Taylor
' This only grabs the first device. Trimming the "head -19" off and doing a little more around the sed "boot-device=" replacement for handling multiple paths is probably needed. I have 4 paths. Thoughts? Ben On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Ben Taylor wrote: > Been t

[ldoms-discuss] determining the correct path for an IO domain's SAN Boot device

2011-06-29 Thread Ben Taylor
Been through the documentation and admin guide. Realize that one set of T5440's LDOM's I've got setup are using a non-mpxio path in the eeprom as the boot device. Has anyone got a script or something to hand a ctd device in a Solaris LDOM using an IO domain, and have it emit the proper path for a

[ldoms-discuss] IPMP between physical and virtual nic in a VCS cluster

2011-07-07 Thread Ben Taylor
I have a clustered LDOM config with an IO Domain (Dual FC, QGE) that is currently in test, getting ready for production. Since we are migrating an existing database to this config, we need to keep the IP addresses of original system (don't ask, app folks used IP's, not qualified domain names). Ho

Re: [ldoms-discuss] IPMP between physical and virtual nic in a VCS cluster

2011-08-11 Thread Ben Taylor
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Max Ahston wrote: > I'd consider using VLANs instead of "locking" a physical interface to one > network if possible. In that way you will be able to service more servers on > different networks on your configuration. Well, I don't have architecture decisions on

Re: [ldoms-discuss] LDOMs - Data migration

2011-08-23 Thread Ben Taylor
In what way? Assuming you already have a LDOM primary setup and resources for the client LDOM, then it's cake. I had to convert a T5440 single system to a dual primary and io-domain client which proved interesting and doable over a 2 night period while we migrated the cluster app over. Ben On

Re: [ldoms-discuss] How to convert a ufs Ldom guestdomain to zfs environment

2011-10-06 Thread Ben Taylor
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 11:59 AM, porchelvan wrote: > Hi All, > I know it is possible to  migrate a ufs root to zfs root and ufs zone root to > zfs. > But i have a doubt. Whether it is possible to migrate a ufs Ldom Guest domain > to ZFS.  If it is possible then kindly advice me the steps to be f

Re: [ldoms-discuss] How to convert a ufs Ldom guestdomain to zfs environment

2011-10-06 Thread Ben Taylor
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Hudes, Dana wrote: > LU docs state that migrating from zfs to ufs is not supported. I did not use LU to go from ZFS to UFS. I cpio'd the ZFS image to a new disk and fixed it up appropriately. I was not suggesting that I did it any other way, but did imply that t

Re: [ldoms-discuss] OpenGL on Oracle LDOMs?

2011-10-28 Thread Ben Taylor
are they going to be rendering in the NVidia cards, or are they going ot have 4 monitors tied to the system for display? On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Anna Berger wrote: > Unfortunately, this is not an Oracle system – it is an Systel System with 2 > Quad-core Intel CPUs.  Customer is consider

Re: [ldoms-discuss] Cold migration of LDoms with slice-based system disks - not possible?

2011-10-29 Thread Ben Taylor
2011/10/29 LaoTsao : > > > Sent from my iPad > > On Oct 29, 2011, at 7:21 AM, Greg Earle wrote: > >> On Oct 29, 2011, at 3:23 AM, Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D. wrote: >> >>> On 10/29/2011 12:39 AM, Greg Earle wrote: On Oct 28, 2011, at 6:00 PM, Alexandre Chartre wrote: > To use

[ldoms-discuss] full component list

2012-02-14 Thread Ben Taylor
I have a T5440, with a primary master domain with pci_0 and pci_1, and an IO domain with pci_2. Was trying to figure out what was in pci_3, since it was neither assigned to the master or the first IO domain. (It's targeted for another IO domain). Beyond standing up an ldom, is there someway to i

Re: [ldoms-discuss] full component list

2012-02-14 Thread Ben Taylor
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Liam Merwick wrote: > On 14/02/2012 14:54, Ben Taylor wrote: >> >> I have a T5440, with a primary master domain with pci_0 and pci_1, and >> an IO domain with pci_2. >> >> Was trying to figure out what was in pci_3, since it

Re: [ldoms-discuss] LDOM disk

2012-08-01 Thread Ben Taylor
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 11:22 AM, wrote: > I have a query regarding ldom disk. > > We have to create a new file system in a ldom ssbpmq01( highlighted in > yellow) > > From control domain I see there are two guest domains as below : > > root@ssbpblade02:/# ldm list > > NAME STAT