I believe in solaris 11 the driver was updated to support gldv3 so it may work. Create an install service from a downloaded iso file, specifying x86 based dhcp client starting at address. Implementing application zones on oracle supercluster. After finishing the repository and other postwork, i should be create vm. Common system configuration tasks have changed in oracle solaris 11 with the service management facility smf. You can create vlans for local area networks that use switch technology.
I can set this up with shared ip but i understand that exclusive ip is the way to go but i cannot figure out how to do it. Vlan tagging and vanity naming in solaris 11 troys unix. Use the oracle solaris 10 ifconfig command or the oracle solaris 11. As a whole, the ipmp group with its multiple underlying ip interfaces is represented as a single ipmp interface. The oracle solaris 11 ip multipathing ipmp feature has a new conceptual model. Various tips and tricks picked up in unix engineering. Before going in deep we can see some basic concept of networking. A datalink may also be referred to as a physical interface, such as when referring to a network interface card nic. We migrated the first box to solaris 11 and we experienced the first bug, as soon as we login onto the server, it would. In order to use vlan tagged interfaces in solaris, one simply needs to have an interface capable of handling vlan tagging can be determined by the man page of the interface driver, ex.
One single interface be it aggr or ipmp with one ip will be presented to ovm ov manager as host, as an ip with multiple vlan tagged. For more details about vlan names, see vlan tags and physical points of attachment in system administration guide. My goal here is to give a brief description and steps how to configure a link aggregation in a serivce domain in this case also the control domain and then set up different vlan configurations. This article will walk through to configure the vnic with specific vlan number for guest ldoms. How to configure vlan tagging on a network interface. Highly available and scalable oracle rac networking with oracle solaris 10 ipmp ipmp daemon in. Basically, it is a vnic with a fixed extra attribute, which is the vlan tag id. The following tables summarize differences between oracle solaris 10 and 11 with emphasis on the benefits of oracle solaris 11. Solaris specialists blog everything about solaris page 12. Ip multipathing is a configuration that allows an ip address to automatically failover between two or more physical network interfaces. How to download the logical domains manager software oracle solaris 10. I believe in solaris 11 the driver was updated to support gldv3 so it. I know you can do vlan tagging without using a vnic, my personal preferences goes to vnics for a few reason. This page has been rendered largely irrelevant with the release of the ldoms 1.
Highly available and scalable oracle rac networking with. Note that everything was up and working just before the upgrade. The host forwards the packets without stripping the tag. New features of oracle solaris 11 network configuration. Networking best practices with oracle zfs storage appliance.
Is it possible to assign multiple ip address to nic. I would recommend this method, but this is solaris 11. I would like to have two nics in ipmp configuration and public connections tagged with vlans. Virtualizing an existing solaris isp environment march 05 setting up a simple iscsi target in solaris 11 january 31. Often people ask how to use link aggregations and vlans with oracle vm server for sparc logical domain or ldoms. When compared with the ipmp configuration in oracle solaris 10, oracle solaris 11 groups the ip interfaces into a virtual ip interface for example, ipmp0. In this post, we will show you how to achieve a zenlike approach to monitoring network connections on your servers using a. How to measure nic performancethroughput in solaris 11 using iftop. Solaris 10 zones, vlans, ipmp solaris 10 zones, vlans, ipmp vostrushka technicaluser op 10 dec 11 15. Oracle solaris zones, oracle solaris 10 zones, and resource management.
Its a different way of handling ip interfaces, replacing ifconfig and a lot of etc file manipulation. The virtual switch vsw and virtual network vnet devices support switching of ethernet packets based on the virtual local area network vlan identifier id and handle the necessary tagging or untagging of ethernet frames. Solaris 11 network administration link aggregation ipmp. How to assign vlans to a virtual switch and virtual network device.
For information about zone configuration, refer to chapter 1, how to plan and configure nonglobal zones, in creating and using oracle solaris zones become an administrator. If i delete this ipmp address and interface and i add simple nic interface with an address then everything is fine. This method is easier to configure and administer one interface for all operations, by using vlan tagging, vnics and flowadm1m you can do basically whatever you want regarding shaping and securing your traffic l2l3l4 on the host. This procedure assumes that the zones are already created on the system. Solaris 11 link aggregation with multiple vlans not working. The ipadm command is new in solaris 11 and the illumos derived distributions. Transitioning from solaris 10 ip multipathing ipmp to oracle solaris 11 ipmp doc id 82335. A virtual local area network vlan is a subdivision of a local area network at the datalink layer of the protocol stack. This interface is treated just like any other interface. The floating ip is given its own persistent, virtual object, at the same level as any other ip object at the ipadm layer.
A virtual local area network vlan are basically used to isolate groups of users from each other for ease of network administration and security. With features such as failure detection, transparent access failover, and packet load spreading, ipmp improves network performance by ensuring that the network is always available to the. Implementing application zones on oracle supercluster table of contents table of contents 0 introduction 1. Networking, vlan tagging and ipmp on ldom vswitches. When using oracle solaris on the servers, the oracle solaris ipmp.
Aside from no longer requiring an mtu bodge, you can now choose which vlans to pass through to the ldom which is a massive improvement. The first, most basic operation for which to use ipadm is the creation of a new ip interface. In oracle solaris, ipmp contains the following features. This is an area where there are differences between solaris 11 and solaris 10 service domains. Image packaging system ips a state of the art, network repositorybased.
Ipmp enables you to configure multiple ip interfaces into a single group called an ipmp group. Solaris 10 supports ipmp configured in only linkbased mode. March 25, 2015 march 3, 2017 eli kleinman leave a comment no ratings yet. You can now create a vlan tagged virtual interface that is a toplevel. The steps to create zones and to assign interfaces to the zones are not covered in this procedure. On platforms that support dynamic reconfiguration dr of nics, ipmp can be used to transparently fail over network access, providing uninterrupted network access to the system.
New to solaris ipmp conversion from linux the unix and. First we will the basic difference between older version of solaris and solaris 11. For example, configure vlan 21 as untagged and vlan 20 as tagged. In solaris 11, vlans are created using dladm and the ip address is assigned using ipadm. Solaris 11s unified network interface allows for much cleaner vlan tagging usage. Monitoring network connections certainly can be frustrating, mainly because they can be established and then disappear within a matter of seconds. You need an existing datalink to create an interface on note i say datalink. For more information about zone configuration, refer to chapter 17, planning and configuring nonglobal zones tasks, in oracle solaris 11. How to configure link based ipmp in solaris 11 the geek. Ive been messing with it for days and am a bit baffled. The post describes configuration of vlan tagging on network.
This then allows you to apply persistent tuning options to it. How to configure a vlan managing network datalinks in. The post describes configuration of vlan tagging on network interface with an example. This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Up,broadcast,running,multicast,ipv4, ipmp mtu 1500 index 11 inet 192. Oracle highly recommends that all service domains are running solaris 11.
Using linkbased ipmp in oracle vm server for sparc. Persistent network configuration is now managed by smf, and not by editing following files. You can now create a vlan tagged virtual interface that is a toplevel network entity in its own right. Solaris 11 s unified network interface allows for much cleaner vlan tagging usage. Link aggregation, aka trunking, is similar, yet different to ip multipathing ipmp. Consider the example of four vlans, bge, bge1001, bge2000, and bge2001. I will be creating a virtual switch on top of the aggr1 data link while the existing vlans are already there. To use iftop on vlan tagged datalinks specify option f vlan using. In setting up a test box, i needed to set up vlan tagging 802. Ip network multipathing ipmp is a layer 3 technology that enables you to group multiple ip interfaces into a single logical interface. Oracle made a tone of changes to its networking stack in solaris 11. By assigning groups of users to vlans, you can improve network administration and security for the entire local network. Oracle solaris 11 configuring ipmp in an oracle vm server for sparc environment.
Solaris 10 static ip network configuration guide router. If there is s need to assign vlan tag to the nic solaris provides special naming convention for the nic it includes vlan tag. There is also a new tool specifically written to monitor ipmp. Caution the convention that is used to name vlans might lead to errors when you configure vlans as an ipmp group. How to change and configure solaris 11 ip address may 1, 2016. The repository iso image is available under patch id 16701711 in mos. Just wanted to touch base on configuring few of these feature.
Solaris 10 static ip network configuration guide free download as. Networking, vlan tagging and ipmp on ldom vswitches update. If this were solaris 10, id likely remove them and if i need. The hme nic is a very old interface and the driver doesnt support vlans so you may need to update to a gldv3 driver and nic, something like ce, bge, eg, etc. How to measure nic performancethroughput in solaris 11. The following is a quick primer on administering vxlan in solaris 11. For a stepbystep procedure, please see using unified archives for system recovery and cloning in oracle solaris 11. You can create multiple vlan interfaces over a virtual network device in a guest domain. The ip interfaces are now grouped into a virtual group ip interface e. This article describes some of the new features for basic oracle solaris 11 network configuration and shows how to use them to add a new system to a simple but typical corporate network. Solaris elastic virtual switch evs can be used to manage vxlan deployment automatically in a cloud environment this will be the subject of a future discussion.
Solaris 11 zones part 1 may 01 ipadm and ipmp on solaris 11 april 30 resizing swap on solaris 11 april 08 case study. It is normally not possible to manually install a package from a newer release of solaris 11. How to assign vlans to a virtual switch and virtual. If you need these capabilities, use ipmp, as explained in chapter 30, introducing ipmp overview. Due to some of the new solaris 11 networking features, configuring a vlan tagged interface is slightly different from what. This paper directly addresses only oracle solaris 11 nonglobal zones within an oracle solaris 11. Solaris 10 zones and networking common considerations. Using aggregations and vlans with ldoms and zones oracle. In oracle solaris 11, each zone must have its own zfs. The oracle vm server for sparc software supports 802. How to get started configuring your network in oracle. The content is drawn from transitioning from oracle solaris 10 to oracle solaris 11 and other sources in the oracle solaris documentation. More discussions in solaris 11 this discussion is archived.
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