LDoms 1.2 Released!

Well it's that time of the year again when a new version of LDoms has been released! Version 1.2 has some great new features and enhancements:

• Physical-to-Virtual Migration Tool
• Configuration Assistant
• Power Management for the CPU
• Jumbo TCP/IP Frames for Virtual Networking
• Restriction of Delayed Reaction for the Control Domain
• Domain Dependency Configurations
• Auto-Recovery of Configurations
• Exporting Virtual Storage Back-ends Multiple Times
• API to Support LDMD Auto-Discovery

The included P2V tool allows one to take a sun4u server running Solaris 8-10 and convert it into a Solaris 10 sun4v image! This is very similar to the Solaris 8/9 Migration Assistant for Containers. The Configuration Assistant gives you an ncurses and Java GUI for doing the initial configuration of your server. Definitely a handy tool for getting people started. The other enhancements will help with power management, networking, configuration management, sharing storage, and enabling management products such as Wand.

I've already updated the main LDoms Community page with all the links to the software, firmware, and documentation. I'll have some more posts over the weekend as I upgrade my environment.

Also for your viewing pleasure, here are some links to demos done on rapid provisioning and mobility with LDoms. Also a sneak peak at xVM OpsCenter managing LDoms is here:)

I'd like to thank all the Sun Engineers and Managers involved with the 1.2 release! Continue doing an excellent job and keep those features coming:)

PS, if you can't find the 1.2 release on the main download site, here is the direct link.