View source for Configuring the Host system, the Control Domain

1. Install Solaris 10 on your host system.  You're a grown adult, so you decide on how you wan to partition it and what range of packages you want to install.  

2. Download the Oracle VM Server for SPARC software from [http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/virtualization/index.html Oracle ]

3. Upload the software to your LDOM server, unpack and install

  unzip V24253-01.zip
  cd OVM_Server_SPARC-2_0/Install/
  ./install-ldm

You'll be asked if you want to configure the system now.  I always prefer to do it manually later:

  Select an option for configuration:
  
  y) Yes, launch the Configuration Assistant after install
  n) No thanks, I will configure the system manually later
  
  Enter y or n [y]: n

4. Reboot

  shutdown -g0 -i6 -y

5. Create a virtual console concentrator to allow virtual console access to individual LDOMs

   ldm add-vcc port-range=5000-5100 primary-vcc0 primary

6. Create a virtual disk server (vds) to allow virtual disk to be imported into LDOMs

   ldm add-vds primary-vds0 primary

7. Create a virtual switch to allow the control domain to communicate to the LDOMs

   ldm add-vsw net-dev=e1000g0 inter-vnet-link=off primary-vsw0 primary

This means that all the LDOMs at this stage will be communicating with themselves and world via the same physical network port, e1000g0.  I set '''inter-vnet-link''' to '''off''' so that all virtual machine traffic has to go through the virtual switch, which uses fewer resources.

8. View that the services have been created.

   ldm list-services

should look something like:

  VCC
      NAME             LDOM             PORT-RANGE
      primary-vcc0     primary          5000-5100
  
  VSW
      NAME             LDOM             MAC               NET-DEV   ID   DEVICE     LINKPROP   DEFAULT-VLAN-ID PVID VID                  MTU   MODE  
      primary-vsw0     primary          00:14:4f:fa:40:c8 e1000g0   0    switch@0              1               1                         1500        
  
  VDS
      NAME             LDOM             VOLUME         OPTIONS          MPGROUP        DEVICE
      primary-vds0     primary

9. List the crypto devices in the control domain

   ldm list -o crypto primary

Will look something like:

   # ldm list -o crypto primary
   NAME
   primary

   MAU
       ID     CPUSET
       0      (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
       1      (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
       2      (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
       3      (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
       4      (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
       5      (40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47)
       6      (48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55)
       7      (56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63)

10. Assign a single crypto resource to the control domain

   ldm set-mau 1 primary

Will look like:

   # ldm list -o crypto primary
   NAME
   primary

   MAU
       ID     CPUSET
       0      (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

11. Assign virtual CPU's to the control domain

   ldm set-vcpu 8 primary

12. Initial a delayed reconfiguration on the control domain

   ldm start-reconf primary

13. Assign memory to the control domain

   ldm set-memory 2G primary

14. Add a ldom config to the service processor (SP)

   ldm add-config initial

Use

   ldm list-config

to check it worked

15. Reboot

   shutdown -g 0 -i 6 -y

16. Enable the virtual server network terminal server daemon, to allow access to virtual consoles

   svcadm enable vntsd

17. Create a ZFS RAID-Z pool to hold the LDOM disk images

  zpool create -f storage raidz c1t2d0 c1t3d0 c1t4d0 c1t5d0 c1t6d0 c1t7d0