Asset ID:	1-75-1020010.1
Update Date:	2011-02-07
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Solution Type  Troubleshooting Sure

Solution  1020010.1 :   Troubleshooting Unable to install OS in guest domain in LDOM environment  


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250810

Applies to:

Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000 Server
Sun Blade T6340 Server Module
Sun Netra T2000 Server
Sun Netra T5220 Server
Sun Netra T5440 Server
All Platforms

Purpose

Description
This document would explain the details of how to Troubleshoot unable to install OS in guest domain


Symptoms:

One or more of the following cases will be observed or described when trying to install OS in guest
domain

• Disk configuration
  
• Lack of resources (memory, cpu and etc) assigned to guest domain
  
• configuration issue (Verify links and Vnets)

Last Review Date

February 3, 2011

Instructions for the Reader

Troubleshooting Details

Related Documents:

For more information on installing OS in guest domain, please refer to following references:

- Beginners Guide to LDOMs (820-0832) availabe at http://www.sun.com/blueprints.
- Logical Domains (LDoms) X.X.X Administration Guides, which are available on http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/vm-sparc-194287.html .

Additional information specific to the software release is available on http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/vm-sparc-194287.html as:

- LDOMs Release Notes.
- Release Notes for the specific Solaris[TM] release.

Up to date information on LDoms is available at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/vm-sparc-194287.html .





Steps to Follow
Please validate that each troubleshooting step below is true for your environment. The steps will provide instructions or a link to a document, for validating the step and taking corrective action as necessary. The steps are ordered in the most appropriate sequence to isolate the issue and identify the proper resolution. Please do not skip a step
Step 1. Disk configurations.

See 1020008.1 Steps to verify Disk configuration.

Step 2. Lack of resources are assigned to the LDoms.

See 1019970.1 Procedure to ensure appropriate LDOM resources are assigned to domains.

Step 3. Network configuration issue.

See 1020018.1 Confirm network settings are correct.

At this point, if you have validated that each troubleshooting step above is true for your environment, and the issue still exists, further troubleshooting is required. Provide an Explorer output and open a Service Request. See 1020212.1 Data Collection for troubleshooting LDom issues.

Product
Sun Fire T2000 Server
Sun Fire T1000 Server
Sun Netra T2000 Server
Sun Netra T5220 Server
Sun Netra T5440 Server
Netra T5220 AC
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 Server
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 Server
Sun Blade T6300 Server Module
Sun Blade T6320 Server Module
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 Server
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 Server
Sun Blade T6340 Server Module
Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000 Server
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server
Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 Server

Internal Comments
This document contains normalized content and is managed by the the Domain Lead (s) of the respective domains. To notify content owners of a knowledge gap contained in this document, and/or prior to updating this document, please contact the domain engineers that are managing this document via the "Document Feedback" alias(es) listed below:

Solaris[TM] OS Domain Feedback Alias : global-os-systems-tsc-domain-engineers@sun.com

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