Download and install the driver on a linux platform sun. Why smartos zfs, kvm, dtrace, zones and more smartos docs. Set ixgbe driver parameters in the solaris os sun dual. Creating internal snapshots of virtual machines has been deprecated. Oracle today announced availability of oracle solaris 11, the first cloud os. You can use the modload1m command to load the driver if needed. Last year the ixgbe driver for illumos omnios, oi, smartos etc was updated to support the new intel 55x and 710 nics. Im trying to load the latest 10gb nic driver from the intel site into my solaris 11. Below are several methods, with examples, to check network link status of ethernet interfaces in solaris. In my server, i have three different nic adapters placed. Oracle solaris 11 is designed to meet the security, performance and scalability. Appendix a cards that support pci hot plug and dynamic.
For information concerning driver configuration details, refer to the readme file in the ixgbe driver download. The cloning characterspecial device, dev ixgbe, is used to access all intel 10 gigabit pci express ethernet devices installed within the system. Nfs streaming over 10 gbe oracle jeff taylors blog. Chapter 1, hardware for use with vmware vsphere, on page 11, provides guidance on selecting. Problems that might occur with oracle solaris 11 and. Verify the driver version oracle solaris 11 sun dual. Intel 10gbps nic not working within solaris 11 server fault. Appendix b cards that support pci hot plug and dynamic. You can increase the number of transmit queues by increasing the value of this parameter. I want to know whether the firmware has been successfully upgraded and reflected in os or not. For the purpose of this post, we will install oracle solaris 11 in an x86 vm machine. Solved can you install freebsd drivers on solaris 11. The driver is provided in a p5ppackage and i have tried adding the driver before starting.
Verify the driver version oracle solaris 11 remove the driver oracle solaris os download and install the driver linux remove the driver linux. I see that 82599es and 82599eb are supported in the latest solaris 10 and 11 releases. We dont support the driver you mention, but you may want to try doing something in your os to keep the cpu awake, like this. Solaris nic driver 10gbe ixgbe driver development, performance tuning, bug fix. The ixgbe 10 gigabit ethernet driver is a multithreaded, loadable, clonable, gldbased streams driver supporting the data link provider interface, dlpi7p, on intel 10gigabit pci express ethernet controllers. That last number in the fun facts is interesting because that number is a small subset of applications that will run on oracle solaris 11. I suppose there is a new ixbge driver available at oracle as well but oracle offers updates for solaris 11 only with a paid subscription. Adding a driver from a p5p package during solaris 11. It doesnt include applications that will run on oracle solaris 11 that were designed and build for oracle solaris 10 nor 8 and 9 for that matter. View winson wangs profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. This project contains the linux kernel drivers for all intelr ethernet adapters and loms.
Driver parameters oracle solaris os set driver parameters oracle solaris os driver parameters linux set driver parameters linux configuring jumbo frames oracle solaris os change the mtu permanently. Some of the methods like dladm were not available in solaris 8 and 9. Sparc enterprise oracle vm server for sparc guide fujitsu global. Data was consistently being reported missing by applications, which were receiving multicast flows udp datagrams over a 10gb ixgbe interface. Ive very new to solaris but using nappit could easily get my 1gb cards detected and working but not my 10gb. In my career ive seen many people relying on this information in their scripts. To prepare for the installation, you first download and save the iso image to your system. When it is activated again 1, panic may occur with the following message displayed during communication using this interface. Download intel network adapter driver for pcie intel 10. Package catalog oracle solaris 11 package repository.
Hey jeff, just making sure this hasnt slipped through the cracks. Show all versions show obsolete packages show renamed packages. The oracle solaris 10 606 release corrects this issue. This is the most current release of the ixgbe driver for linux, which supports kernel versions 2. Driver development for oracle solaris is d0ne at oracle while developments of the free solaris forks is done at illumos. Web help desk, dameware remote support, patch manager, servu ftp, and engineers toolset. Hcl detail entry for solaris 11 11 11 solaris 10 1 oracle america, inc. The ixgbe driver supports devices based on the following controllers. The only time ive experienced esxi load that did not appear to be attributable to a guest vm was with solaris 11 11 11. Oracle support had me delete the intel ixgbe driver kerneldrvamd64ixgbe and replace it with a debug driver to test something.
The process remains same while installing on sparc based systems. The ixgbe driver functions include controller initialization, frame transmit and. With rapid7 live dashboards, i have a clear view of all the assets on my network, which ones can be exploited, and what i need to do in order to reduce the risk in my environment in realtime. Sun microsystems e2554402 user manual pdf download. How can i know the firmware version of nic adapters in solaris 11. When you install x520da2 network interface card with ixgbe driver on hp dl580 server, esxi host fails with a purple screen. This guide also describes how to configure the ixgbe driver for the oracle solaris operating system and the linux and microsoft windows server operating systems. This release adds support for solaris 11, solaris 11. The hardware causing you problems is likely the cpu power management hardware. This release includes ixgbe linux base drivers for intel ethernet network connections. There are several different ways to check the link statusupdown in solaris. This appendix describes cards that support pci hot plug and dynamic reconfiguration. Set ixgbe driver parameters in the solaris os sun dual 10gbe.
This happens because of the delay in programming of vlan filter on ixgbe driver of a physical network. Discussion in solaris, nexenta, openindiana, and nappit started by manxam, mar 29, 2016. You can use the keyboard shortcuts preference tool to modify the default shortcut keys. The ixgbe driver both 32 bit and 64bit get installed. Zfs copyonwrite transactional model makes it possible to capture a. How to install oracle solaris 11 text installer the. Note if the ixgbe 7d driver is not listed, the driver might not be loaded. Solaris 11 was released on november 9, 2011 and there was no source release. The driver compliant with the network is the fujitsu pci gigabit ethernet fjgi. When i install solaris 10 update 11, i can not see my 10gbe nic. Oracle has announced the release of oracle solaris 11, a unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems and known for its scalability and innovative enterprise features. In the attached vib, ive mapped the driver to load only for the device ids listed below. Among the earliest adopters and most effective advocates of opensolaris was ben. Finding the nic driver version on solaris 11 in solaris 10 it was easy, a simple grep through modinfo output and youd have the version of any loaded module, including your nic drivers.
The intel 10 gigabit pci express network driver ixgbe. About oracle solaris11 support status, please contact to below. Change the mtu temporarily oracle solaris 10 change the mtu temporarily oracle solaris 11 configure jumbo frames linux. Id suggest either a getting a known supported network card or b running an open source fork of solaris. X11 are not part of the default solaris 11 setup, and if you want stuff like oracle database you may feel the urge of having x11 to perform the installation. This parameter controls the number of transmit queues that are used by the ixgbe network driver. Configuring link aggregation in a solaris environment. Oracle solaris certification and support hewlett packard. If you are using a newer kernel or distro it is likely that its ixgbe driver is at least as up to date as the out of tree oot driver found here.
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