Thanks for the reply. If I have to reboot the primary domain I'm going to have to stop all the guest domains anyways, aren't I? I've read that doc and the wiki and it's telling me how to do it, not why.
Buck -----Original Message----- From: Mads Toftum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 4:29 PM To: Huffman, Buck Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ldoms-discuss] Question about I/O Domains On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:27:24PM -0700, Buck Huffman wrote: > I'm currently testing/configuring 4 T5440's (2 prod & 2 UAT) and I have a > couple of question about how I should configure my systems. I'm planning on > having four guest domains running as individual cluster nodes on each system. > Right now I've got a CFS share running on my primary domains to host the > guest domains root file systems. I've got 4 dual-port HBA's and 3 NIC's that > I need to come up with a configuration. > > So Question: > Is there a benefit to running two I/O domains each with a NIC and an HBA that > then shares to the guest domains? Or should I just run a primary that > controls all the I/O? Yes, the primary benifits being redundancy and having the option to reboot control/io domains without having to shut down all guest domains. I highly recommend reading: http://wikis.sun.com/display/BluePrints/LDOMS+IO+Best+Practices+-+Data+Reliability+With+Logical+Domains vh Mads Toftum -- http://soulfood.dk _______________________________________________ ldoms-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ldoms-discuss
