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I have created NPIV ports on the physical HBAs with no issue. How can I assign them fo an LDOM? NPIV is supported on the HBAs, Cisco switches and the Hitachi storage.
Direct NPIV support is currently not available in OVM for SPARC, but you can still check this below URL if this can help you :
https://blogs.oracle.com/vmserver/entry/using_npiv_with_oracle_vm
Hello
I think this link can help
Using Fibre Channel SR-IOV Virtual Functions - Oracle® VM Server for SPARC 3.2 Administration Guide
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Eze
Thank you for the response. I have seen the link previously, the only disconcerting part is that the NPIV WWPNs must be presented from the primary domain however we also have a secondary I/O domain. So in order to manage all of the disks presented, we have to manage virtual devices one-by-one on both of our I/O domains which is an administrative nightmare when we will have many many logical domains. I simply want to be able to present the NPIV WWPNs to the logical domains directly where no configuration would be required on the I/O domains at all. I have been doing this with AIX LPARs for years where the VIO servers are never zoned at all to the LUNs themselves. Unless I am missing something this isnt possible with Sparc on Solaris 11.2?
I don't know if I understand you correctly, because you have the knowlegde of doing it AIX LPARs, and maybe in Ldom solaris is a bit different.
I think this is very similar. If you run ldm list-io -l you will be able to see the number of VF you card support I don't have and HBA card in my box so I show the network card
[pci@400/pci@1/pci@0/pci@4/network@0]
This means that if you enable the virtualizacion at this card you can have one PF (Physical funtion) and 7 VF virutal functions. (same happens if your HBA is ready for SR-VIO check the link, in this doc you can find if it is and what FW is needed: Oracle VM Server for SPARC PCIe Direct I/O and SR-IOV Features (Doc ID 1325454.1) )
The VF can be assgined to theguest domain using SR-VIO and you will see it like a physical network card into the guest domian.
In this link you can see an example in FC about how the PF and VF works in ldom, this is what we have as ldom virtualization
Creating Fibre Channel SR-IOV Virtual Functions - Oracle® VM Server for SPARC 3.2 Administration Guide
When you assigned a VF to a guest for instance, /SYS/MB/PCIE7/IOVFC.PF0.VF4 , you will see it into that guest as it is a HBA card and you will see the disks without any kind of virtualization.
So basically from and physical HBA in primary you have check if it is ready for SR-VIO and then you can split it in VF as many as it let you and you can assigne each VF to each domian, what you see for each VF will be like a physical disks into ldom guest.
I hope this helps