SR-IOV

before you can use the SR-IOV feature for your LDOM configuration, you will have to update the Emulex HBA firmware, according the OVM documentation Sun Storage 16 Gb Fibre Channel Universal HBA, Emulex must be at least revision 1.1.60.1 to enable the Fibre Channel SR-IOV feature. (and it says: only upgrade if you are using SR-IOV)

Update HBA Firmware to use the sr-iov Feature on Oracle VM

Download Firmware: http://www.emulex.com/downloads/oem-qualified/oracle/7101684/firmware-and-boot-code/

# unzip A11601.zip

Download Emulex "OneCommand Manager application kit", including FCA utilities, for 64-bit SPARC and 64-bit x86: http://www.emulex.com/downloads/emulex/drivers/solaris/solaris-11/management/

untar and install "OneCommand Manager application kit":

# tar xvf elxocmcore-solaris-10.2.370.16-1.tar
# cd elxocmcore-solaris-10.2.370.16-1
# ./install

PKGs will be installed to /opt/ELXocm and /opt/EMLXemlxu

# hbacmd listhba m=7101684 | grep "Port WWN"
Port WWN       : 10:00:00:90:fa:74:eb:96
Port WWN       : 10:00:00:90:fa:74:eb:97
Port WWN       : 10:00:00:90:fa:74:eb:ed
Port WWN       : 10:00:00:90:fa:74:eb:ee

Update Firmware on the HBAs with model number 7101684:

# hbacmd listhba m=7101684 | nawk '/Port WWN/ {print $4}' | while read PWWN; do
> echo "hbacmd download $PWWN /root/sr-iov/A11601.grp"
> hbacmd download $PWWN /root/sr-iov/A11601.grp
> done
hbacmd download 10:00:00:90:fa:74:eb:96 /root/sr-iov/A11601.grp

Downloading /root/sr-iov/A11601.grp to hba 10:00:00:90:fa:74:eb:96



Download Complete. Please reboot system to activate new firmware.

hbacmd download 10:00:00:90:fa:74:eb:97 /root/sr-iov/A11601.grp

Downloading /root/sr-iov/A11601.grp to hba 10:00:00:90:fa:74:eb:97



Download Complete. Please reboot system to activate new firmware.

hbacmd download 10:00:00:90:fa:74:eb:ed /root/sr-iov/A11601.grp

Downloading /root/sr-iov/A11601.grp to hba 10:00:00:90:fa:74:eb:ed



Download Complete. Please reboot system to activate new firmware.

hbacmd download 10:00:00:90:fa:74:eb:ee /root/sr-iov/A11601.grp

Downloading /root/sr-iov/A11601.grp to hba 10:00:00:90:fa:74:eb:ee



Download Complete. Please reboot system to activate new firmware.

# init 6