The SPARC M10, M12, or the SPARC Enterprise PCI Hot Plug is used to add or remove a PCI card in an Oracle Solaris environment without rebooting a system. The system resource on the PCI card is an I/O device. This PCI card can be added or removed with PCI Hot Plug. PCI Hot Plug can be used for the following operations:
PCI card hot swap
Replacing or removing a failed PCI card without stopping operations
PCI card hot expansion
Adding a new PCI card without stopping operations
