...and for those interested in a use case (kind of high performance firewall) of separating the NIU have a look at
http://blogs.sun.com/martinm/entry/highloadhuron Regrads Martin On 31.05.10 03:38, Peter Wilson wrote: > You cannot have two IO domains on a T5120, at least not the way you want > to... > > The 5120 only has a single PCI bus therefore can only have a single IO > domain... > > Well... beong completely factual about this.... > > ... you CAN split the the 10GbE NIU's to a second IO domain, but those > are the only physical devices that IO domain would have (two 10GbE > Ports), so its only a very limited version of a second IO domain (its > still going to need to get boot disks from either its own network ports > (via net boot) or via vdisks from the primary IO domain. This could be > perfect for you if you want to create redundant network paths but not > any use for other PCI devices or storage etc. Generally customers > wanting multiple IO domains go for the T2+ based systems with two or > more PCI buses. > > You need to look at the T5140 or better still the T5240 which have two > PCI buses and in the case of the T5240 plenty of PCI card slots to > really let you have as much flexibility as you may need when adding > cards, even better still is the T5440 with more PCI buses and more PCI > slots. > > Peter > > anil dhingra wrote: >> Hi all >> >> is it possible to create 2 i/o domain on t5120 as i was trying to >> create 2 guest domain with 2 i/o domain & vcs on both guests >> >> But not able to create 2 i/o as all 4 disks & nics have same pci >> Regrds >> Anil >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ldoms-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ldoms-discuss >> > -- Martin Mueller [email protected] Systems Infrastructure Ambassador Tel.: +49 2102 45 11740 Sun Microsystems GmbH Fax: +49 2102 499516 D-40880 Ratingen Mobile: +49 172 8618483 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, D-85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB 161028 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Juergen Kunz _______________________________________________ ldoms-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ldoms-discuss
