Have ever faced a situation where you think you've lost LDOMs configuration (mostly after an unexpected downtime)? If that's the case, then you must know how much autosave feature on Oracle VM for SPARC is important. Indeed, the main aim of the autosave feature is to ensure that a copy of the current configuration is automatically saved on the control domain whenever the Logical Domains configuration is changed. More important, it occurs even when the new configuration is not explicitly saved on the SP.
Note that this doesn't replace the classic LDOMs configuration Backup which consists of saving the constraints information for each domain into an XML file (ldm list-constraints -x...), but may supplement it when what is needed is just to recover domain Configurations that weren't saved to the SP.
Enough talk! Let's move forward with this practical case. We've a System with 05 configured LDOMs, and while building them, an unexpected Hardware Failure occurs (:-)). The main issue is that we haven't saved yet our LDOM Configuration on the SP. Meaning before the Outage, we had something similar to:
And after the outage, we've something like this (with maybe some other parameters not present for the primary domain...).
The /var/opt/SUNWldm folder contains the Autosave directories.
2.lists the available autosave configurations
At this stage, we should have our autosaved configuration shown as being newer than the current configuration.
3. Recover the Autosave Configuration
4. Perform a full power Cycle
5. Check the LDOM Configuration
