Re: [zones-discuss] routeing in zones

2006-05-24 Thread Mike Gerdts
hostname.bge1001 - group 10.0.1.0 I find that when I do cable pulls (pull bge0, replace bge0, pull bge1, replace bge1) that a zone IP address has been transitioned to a test address. Yuck! Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _

Re: [zones-discuss] routeing in zones

2006-05-24 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 5/24/06, Peter Memishian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> >  > I find that when I do cable pulls (pull bge0, replace bge0, pull bge1,>  > replace bge1) that a zone IP address has been transitioned to a test >  > address.  Yuck!> > A test address?  It actually ends up with IFF_NOFAILOVER set?I misstat

Re: [zones-discuss] routeing in zones

2006-05-28 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 5/28/06, Peter Memishian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a fix for (1) available that I can putback to Nevada immediately.Please let me know if you'd like to test it.I will most likely be able to test it once it is there - it would be easier for me to test against S10 than it would be against

Re: [zones-discuss] Zones on NAS...

2006-06-20 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 6/20/06, Simon Redmill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Apologies if this has been discussed before. A customer recently insisted that Zones are not supported/do not work if installed on a NAS device. Is this the case? TIA, Simon.The best solution that I have seen so far is to use lo

Re: [zones-discuss] Zones on NAS...

2006-06-20 Thread Mike Gerdts
y and the host. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: improved zones/RM integration

2006-06-26 Thread Mike Gerdts
the global is required to make FSS active. For that matter, there should be a warning message on zone boot that FSS is not active and the configured zone.cpu-shares value will be ignored. No reboot is required. See poolbind in this example: http://users.tpg.com.au/adsln4yb/zones.html

Re: [zones-discuss] improved zones/RM integration

2006-06-28 Thread Mike Gerdts
ing from zones, I have been writing scripts that sometimes parse the output of "zonecfg info". Changing this format stands a good chance of breaking my scripts. It sounds like if I set pool and rctl resources, they would still be displayed as rctl and not translated to the syntax associated with temporary pools. Is this correct? Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Applications Support in Zones Question?

2006-06-28 Thread Mike Gerdts
would need to run in the global zone. This implies that there would be a fair amount of rework between the CFSmount and Oracle (is that the right name?) resources to add loopback mounts and zone resources. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogsp

Re: [zones-discuss] Zones, clusters, and maintainability

2006-06-28 Thread Mike Gerdts
quot;split brain" protection and get rid of the worries about firewall, tcp wrappers, etc. mentioned above. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Zones, clusters, and maintainability

2006-06-29 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 6/29/06, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mike Gerdts writes: > > - Zone roots can be setup on SAN LUNs as long as the HBA drivers are in the Solaris 10 DVD miniroot. This allows for OS upgrades. We are using the Sun-branded Qlogic HBAs which are handled by the Leadvill

Re: [zones-discuss] Local Zone console logging

2006-07-15 Thread Mike Gerdts
L and compare it to the output you get from ^Ec? after doing "platform console". Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] installing new os in zone

2006-07-17 Thread Mike Gerdts
be in update 3? Please? Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Installing new zone

2006-07-21 Thread Mike Gerdts
in the new zone. They would like to know how to get this working. Does /opt/CA exist in /var/sadm/install/contents? It sounds to me like the package creates the directory with mkdir in one of the installation scripts without calling installf to tell the package database what it did. Mike --

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone names longer than 8 chars?

2006-07-27 Thread Mike Gerdts
of when the zone name is greater than 29 characters. Then you run into bug 6284623, which is fixed with 123015-01. The patch came out in January, but I am not sure if it was included in update 2 or not. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ __

Re: [zones-discuss] zones and network interfaces

2006-07-28 Thread Mike Gerdts
irtual interface where it started (e.g. bge2:1). When the zone is halted in this situation, the IP address stays active on bge2 until you unplumb it. This also prevents the zone from completely shutting down. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogsp

Re: [zones-discuss] zones and network interfaces

2006-07-28 Thread Mike Gerdts
told the bug ID on this one yet. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] cpu and memory assignments in zones

2006-07-31 Thread Mike Gerdts
tes on the progress of this project? How does its timing compare to the other projects (hypervisor support on sun4v (11/06?), Xen on x86 (6/07?)) that could also offer the level of CPU and memory controls requested? Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.bl

Re: [zones-discuss] question about zones status check. thanks

2006-08-17 Thread Mike Gerdts
ure that svcs -x is clean, be sure that ~root/.rhosts doesn't say "+ +", etc. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] /etc/zones/index and uuid

2006-09-14 Thread Mike Gerdts
onecfg -z newzone create -t template-somezone The source and destination servers may be at different patch levels, and eventually different OS releases. Is a safer mechanism to zonecfg -z export? Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zone

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [smf-discuss] solaris 10 rc script debugging

2006-09-19 Thread Mike Gerdts
eaches a point that /var is known to be available it switches over to /var. Looking at the output of svcs -xv will show where the log file is for services that are holding up the boot process. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-d

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: Can SAMBA be run in a non-global zone?

2006-10-13 Thread Mike Gerdts
files. PID files were a great idea at one time, but their usefulness is eclipsed by contracts + SMF. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Zones and VLAN tagging.

2006-10-17 Thread Mike Gerdts
". Workaround is to configure dummy IP addresses in a down state on each VLAN interface. I don' t think that the problems above happen if probe-based IPMP is used. However, in some load situations in.mpathd introduces false failures due to dropped ICMP packets and/or logic bugs in in.mpa

Re: [zones-discuss] Zones and VLAN tagging.

2006-10-23 Thread Mike Gerdts
booted. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] feedback requested: syslogging zone state transitions...

2006-10-27 Thread Mike Gerdts
to express this as one big transition-- does that work for everyone? Perhaps if zoneadmd is running in a debug or verbose mode (selected by zonecfg(1M) property or /etc/default/zones?) then it could log detailed state transition info to da

Re: [zones-discuss] feedback requested: syslogging zone state transitions...

2006-10-27 Thread Mike Gerdts
pper level monitoring agents without a lot of work by lots of What if "zoneadm monitor -a" (all zones) had the ability to spit syslog entries and/or SNMP traps? Perhaps if the SNMP route is taken, a subagent to snmpd(1M) would be the right approach. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mger

Re: [zones-discuss] feedback requested: syslogging zone state transitions...

2006-10-28 Thread Mike Gerdts
ready foo 7 running ready I'm not sure why the newstate and oldstate would be the same. In order for an approach using a program like the one above to be useful there would need to be some way to indicate what the desired state for the zone is in addition to the the state that it has just

Re: [zones-discuss] Growfs in a zone

2006-10-31 Thread Mike Gerdts
ut. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] improved zones/RM integration

2006-11-02 Thread Mike Gerdts
shared segments only once As I am looking forward to using zfs, I am trying to figure out how I can tell how much memory is being used aside from the zfs buffer cache. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-d

Re: [zones-discuss] Restart: PSARC/2006/598 Swap resource control; locked memory RM improvements

2006-11-13 Thread Mike Gerdts
a man page (time for swapfs(7s)?) and references to that definition in relevant man pages. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: Restart: PSARC/2006/598 Swap resource control; locked memory RM improvements

2006-11-13 Thread Mike Gerdts
tly available physical memory. I've seen confusion on this among many sysadmins and had a short while ago brought it up without PSARC-EXT on the reply list. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] How to get global zone information from non-global zone

2006-11-25 Thread Mike Gerdts
don't say "gzname" or similar because the same file is intended to be useful with domains (refer to the frame/system controller name), LDOM's, etc. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] How to get global zone information from non-global zone

2006-11-25 Thread Mike Gerdts
sers within their "comfort zones" has been a big part of introducing the new features that come with Solaris 10. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone installation problem.

2006-12-06 Thread Mike Gerdts
As I look forward to possibly including blastwave in standard images, I am thinking that Chris' approach of inherit-pkg-dir of /opt/csw (and any other kinda big directories in /opt) is the more proper way to go. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mger

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: Failover IP-Address in Zone

2006-12-07 Thread Mike Gerdts
uot;disable" subcommands. Among other things, the disable subcommand "comments" network interfaces. That is, it adds an attribute (or multiple) that includes the information about the interface and removes the "net" resource(s). I then have an uncomme

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: Failover IP-Address in Zone

2006-12-07 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 12/7/06, Jeff Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mike Gerdts wrote: > Is there an existing RFE to fix this? I have been meaning to file one > for quite some time but just haven't gotten around to it. Which "this" is broken? I need a way to boot a zone for admi

[zones-discuss] Capped memory observability

2007-02-05 Thread Mike Gerdts
t some of the values I am looking for are available through kstat (thank you!). Is there some more user-friendly tool (already or coming) to use inside the zone? Oh, and the question that everyone at work will ask when I tell them about this - when will it find its way into Solaris? :) Mike

Re: [zones-discuss] Several zonepaths on a single slice

2007-02-06 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 2/6/07, Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SVM with soft partitions is not an option and there will be no SAN attached storage to mount small slices for zonepaths. Other than the obvious issue of zones sharing a single partition (disk slice), are there any other concerns with this configura

Re: [zones-discuss] Several zonepaths on a single slice

2007-02-07 Thread Mike Gerdts
newfs /dev/md/rdsk/d$i i=`expr $i + 1` done -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Cross-hardware zone moves

2007-03-05 Thread Mike Gerdts
ey do not touch private interfaces (e. g. no munging of /etc/zones/index). Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] strange: I can't login to host , but I can login its zone, same ip subnet

2007-03-14 Thread Mike Gerdts
e, be consistent in the use of hostnames or IP addresses. That is, don't test "route get" with hostname but ping by IP address. This will just compound your confusion in the event that you have bad DNS entries. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ __

Re: [zones-discuss] Patching for zones with own /usr

2007-03-15 Thread Mike Gerdts
patched with patchadd -G, which would result in confusing configurations with the various non-global zones. Perhaps patchrm and patchadd (sans -G) would be in order. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zones-discuss] Re: [install-discuss] DHCP Server in zone, WAS: Install software from SXCE DVD?

2007-03-17 Thread Mike Gerdts
at http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/cmd-inet/usr.lib/in.dhcpd/interfaces.c#1402 yet. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Any plans for a "Vmotion-like" Zone migration tool?

2007-03-20 Thread Mike Gerdts
te doable. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zones-discuss] Re: lu* commands in zone install WAS: [install-discuss] Flash Archives vs backup

2007-03-29 Thread Mike Gerdts
zfs file systems in the global zone, could the global zone be cloned to form sparse non-global zones? Arguably the value of sparse zones goes down substantially when ZFS clones are involved, but it does provide interesting food for thought. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Zones on NFS

2007-04-17 Thread Mike Gerdts
UFS, not NFS and can be lofs mounted into the non-global zone. Surely I am missing something else. What is it? Any interesting complications with patching and/or live upgrade? Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing li

Re: [zones-discuss] zone hung in shutting_down status

2007-04-20 Thread Mike Gerdts
acle/O 0005000 1956 1919 0- ? 0:00 Aside from rebooting the entire system is there anything I can do to clean this up? Which process did you try to kill? 1919 or 1956? Normally killing 1919 would cause 1956 to go away. Is 1919 in some state that it can't be killed? Mi

Re: [zones-discuss] zone hung in shutting_down status

2007-04-21 Thread Mike Gerdts
way and the zone can go down. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Setting up 2 Oracle databases in Solaris 10 (zones ?)

2007-04-29 Thread Mike Gerdts
9 on a V490. Perhaps you should be looking at either two systems or looking at an M4000 with two domains. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Best practice -> mounting file system on local zone

2007-05-05 Thread Mike Gerdts
t you can't take away used space without deleting data. HTH, Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Default RM controls for Containers?

2007-05-10 Thread Mike Gerdts
27;s product line and opening up the computation methods to allow others to "benchmark" other systems would be very helpful. Perhaps in the future ISV's would say more meaningful things like "1 - 8 threads with at least 17 ZPUs and 6 GB RAM." Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mg

Re: [zones-discuss] What is the maximum number of local zone can I have?

2007-05-15 Thread Mike Gerdts
re you run into problems with the system running a large number of zones. Mike [1] This assumes that you buy into the idea that a 4 processor system with 8GB of RAM is modest - I may be a bit spoiled. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___

Re: [zones-discuss] non-global / global networking without physical interfaces?

2007-05-25 Thread Mike Gerdts
hout a related physical interface. However, as soon as you try to communicate with a non-existent IP address (UDP in my test case) you can crash Nevada or hang the process in S10. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailin

Re: [zones-discuss] zones network documentation

2007-05-25 Thread Mike Gerdts
ing the UDP packet to hang and become "immortal" (ignored kill -9) and was spinning in the kernel. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zones-discuss] Re: [install-discuss] updating a zone when attaching

2007-06-04 Thread Mike Gerdts
This could be done either through looking at the unapplied patches or through a web service that just provides the required scripts. A web service may be a lot of work for what should be a relatively short term problem. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ __

Re: [zones-discuss] updating a zone when attaching

2007-06-04 Thread Mike Gerdts
e on a system with zones on ZFS (significant pain point) this looks very promising. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [install-discuss] Re: [zones-discuss] updating a zone when attaching

2007-06-04 Thread Mike Gerdts
o be available on opensolaris.org and the mercurial change log is not terribly revealing. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] updating a zone when attaching

2007-06-04 Thread Mike Gerdts
d about 10 minutes to total outage time in my initial tests.) Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] updating a zone when attaching

2007-06-04 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 6/4/07, Jeff Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wee Yeh Tan wrote: > On 6/5/07, Mike Gerdts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> With hundreds of zones in production today, it is feeling like later >> is already here. Worst case patching is well over 24 hours in si

Re: [zones-discuss] updating a zone when attaching

2007-06-04 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 6/4/07, Wee Yeh Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/5/07, Mike Gerdts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With hundreds of zones in production today, it is feeling like later > is already here. Worst case patching is well over 24 hours in single > user mode. (I have developed

Re: [zones-discuss] S10 6/06, proc_priocntl and Oracle 10R3

2007-06-29 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 6/29/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No, you can't do that except by upgrading to a later Solaris 10 release. It seems to me that what is really needed is a fix for 4966416[1]. It looks to me as though the current rev of the zones patch[2] has this. Of course the dependency

Re: [zones-discuss] Suggestions for patching zones on high-availability systems

2007-07-10 Thread Mike Gerdts
ill lofs mount /san/data/zone1 from the root file system. In some respects, this seems easier. In other respects, it seems to allow for confusion, potentially with /san/data/zone1 on the root file system eventually getting writes that it shouldn't. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Cloning a zone on ZFS

2007-07-23 Thread Mike Gerdts
he upgrade bits have not yet been made ZFS aware. As such, the bits to clone zones with zfs have not been backported to Solaris 10. It works great in Nevada... To make it work in Solaris 10, take a look here: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2006-November/035806.html Mike -- M

Re: [zones-discuss] One zpool and multiple zones

2007-07-25 Thread Mike Gerdts
ibly "zones-discuss" in the search terms. When I tried to use the jive interface I found it to be an overall unrewarding experience. Of course subscribing to a bunch of lists has its own drawbacks too. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _

Re: [zones-discuss] E20K VCS in non-global Zone

2007-07-30 Thread Mike Gerdts
t;. I have requested that Symantec improve things in this area. In particular, I have requested: - zones should be able to specify boot arguments - there should be a zone run-level resource type Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] E20K VCS in non-global Zone

2007-07-30 Thread Mike Gerdts
IP address. This is not a comprehensive list. It is just a sampling of the types of things that I ran into or could see as likely failure modes when trying to get VCS (and similar service groups in VAD) to work with zones. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ __

Re: [zones-discuss] Creating a sparse root zone via a package's postinstall script

2007-08-01 Thread Mike Gerdts
this is a good thing to do. I am, however, a proponent of trying things that aren't in the book because that's when you tend to learn the most. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] zonecfg question

2007-08-01 Thread Mike Gerdts
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try this: zonecfg -z labv490-01z5 delete -F -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Creating a Virtualization Community Group

2007-08-07 Thread Mike Gerdts
" - there's lots of other virtualization in Solaris that is not part of this community. 2. Or "v12n-discuss" to not chew up the entire subject line. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Howto Solaris10 and Active Directory Integration

2007-08-16 Thread Mike Gerdts
ation - thanks for sharing. While you used a zone to prove this out, it by no means is specific to zones. You could probably reach those that are most interested at sysadmin-discuss or security-discuss. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___

Re: [zones-discuss] Zones on zfs

2007-08-16 Thread Mike Gerdts
dium (DVD-only) to carry the same bits twice -- once as packages > (for regular upgrades of global-zone-only systems) and then again as a > set of patches (for Ashanti upgrades of systems with non-global > zones). It wasn't sustainable. Is this the purpose of the UpgradePatches dir

Re: [zones-discuss] Multiple Vlans on Zones

2007-09-04 Thread Mike Gerdts
rmail/zones-discuss/2006-October/005474.html. The short answer is that if you don't have an IP address on that subnet in the global zone, you will have to resort to hackery to get the default route added in the global zone after the zone's IP address is up. Mike -- Mike

Re: [zones-discuss] Memory Usage in Zones

2007-09-04 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 9/4/07, LaoTsao(Dr. Tsao) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if U are using nv build then U can cap zone's physical memory with > project, s10u4 also has some memory cap feature due out soon > http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zones/files/Zones_RM_Improvements.html Update 4 (Solaris 10 8/07) can be

Re: [zones-discuss] [OT - Solaris release schedule] Was: Memory Usage in Zones

2007-09-05 Thread Mike Gerdts
Solaris 10. I was particularly surprised when I heard in the last couple of weeks that ZFS root looks like it will make it into Solaris 10. (I'm not sure if I ran across this on install-discuss, caiman-discuss, or one of the installer conference calls.) Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mge

Re: [zones-discuss] Patching a machine with local zones

2007-09-06 Thread Mike Gerdts
or pdo.c to become available to see what can be done to improve it, but the wait is getting to be quite long. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] 06/06 > 08/07

2007-09-10 Thread Mike Gerdts
If you mix the two, you will have some difficulties. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] how long would it take to install a zone on Sun Sparc?

2007-09-18 Thread Mike Gerdts
ne that OpenSolaris supports. 1. http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/2006/02/zone-created-in-0922-seconds.html -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] how long would it take to install a zone on Sun

2007-09-19 Thread Mike Gerdts
This has the potential to complicate zone migration and causes confusion for those that are already struggling with zones and inherited directories. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] VCS failover of non-global zones between systems.

2007-09-20 Thread Mike Gerdts
n their security system, not the OS) and stores the credentials in the zone. This is needed if you want to run ha* commands from within the zone. You may need to fix these up - or not. So far I haven't had a lot of need for running ha* commands in zones, but I'm sure some day I will co

Re: [zones-discuss] ps -Z is broken

2007-09-26 Thread Mike Gerdts
utput (assuming that all zones use the same name service - may break anyway if ps is "too smart"). You can adjust the columns to match the -flZ output if desired. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] unable to rsh into zone2

2007-09-26 Thread Mike Gerdts
confused by the fact that "rsh hostname" really uses the rlogin protocol and "rsh hostname command" uses the rsh protocol. I wish I had a dime for every time I had to explain this to someone that was trying to get rsh or rcp to work. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspo

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Groups

2007-10-10 Thread Mike Gerdts
ion with only one short outage to each zone. - Patching and upgrades can be done to one or many zones at a time. That is, we would no longer be stuck with the current method that forces all zones on a box to be patched serially during one long outage to all zones on that box. -- Mike G

Re: [zones-discuss] Problem patching zones with kernel patch 120011-14

2007-10-15 Thread Mike Gerdts
blocks in swap device). This would mean that critical operations stand less of a chance of getting messed up by the system running short of memory during patching operations. Perhaps a ramdisk would be better suited, but I assume that the "ram" part of the name implies bad things on systems

Re: [zones-discuss] zlogin invoked by cron hangs after a few minutes

2007-10-23 Thread Mike Gerdts
irst S10 kernel patch was released), I found similar behavior when running JASS via zlogin. When I caused JASS to dramatically reduce its output (to almost nothing) the problem went away. I don't know if this is related or not - lots has changed in the code since then.

Re: [zones-discuss] Solaris 8 Branded Zones

2007-10-25 Thread Mike Gerdts
/zone.cfg host1# zoneadm -z attach My use case is based upon the notion that I want each zone to be able to move independently, and as such a zpool is created per-zone. Certainly there are other strategies that could be applied (move many zones at once, use zfs send | somethin

Re: [zones-discuss] [Fwd: Cloned zones and printers - redux]

2007-10-30 Thread Mike Gerdts
nfiguring access to the "remote" queue. It seems as though printers.conf could point to localhost in the "master" zone and the clones would then also point to their respective selves. Is there something broken with that approach? -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.

Re: [zones-discuss] [Fwd: Cloned zones and printers - redux]

2007-10-31 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 10/31/07, Norm Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Gerdts wrote: > > It seems as though printers.conf could point to localhost in the > > "master" zone and the clones would then also point to their respective > > selves. Is there something broken

Re: [zones-discuss] Zones and NPIV

2007-11-03 Thread Mike Gerdts
to get better grounded in how NPIV works and would appreciate any pointers to concise info to help bring me up to speed. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] apache2 ignoring capped-memory

2007-11-04 Thread Mike Gerdts
g with large -Xmx parameters set but don't actually use all of this memory. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] apache2 ignoring capped-memory

2007-11-04 Thread Mike Gerdts
. 2) Install another 2 GB of RAM. Paging to swap devices is evil. Workloads that need more memory than you have physical RAM for their working set will not give suitable interactive performance (and even batch performance would be miserable). -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] apache2 ignoring capped-memory

2007-11-04 Thread Mike Gerdts
act, so long as you don't run into 32-bit address space issues. If you have multiple processes contending for a couple hundred IOPs of swap device performance, those processes will suffer. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] apache2 ignoring capped-memory

2007-11-04 Thread Mike Gerdts
yte of RAM. You can also use "vmstat" and "vmstat -p" to confirm that paging activity is high and somewhat characterize what is being paged. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Migration - Sun4u to Sun4v - Supported?

2007-11-08 Thread Mike Gerdts
an unimportant conflict: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=29843#29910 Dave Miner explains that that multi-platform flash was supposed to work but cautions that there may be dragons. http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=29843#30095 -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerd

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Migration - Sun4u to Sun4v - Supported?

2007-11-08 Thread Mike Gerdts
ate on attach") I was having a hard time. I really think that "update on attach" would also solve the issue at hand, now that I think about it. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2007/621/ Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Migration - Sun4u to Sun4v - Supported?

2007-11-08 Thread Mike Gerdts
e back to host-A, does it need to be > downgraded? It would need to be downgraded, but the last draft I read of the update on attach spec that I read did not support this. I would not expect it to support it in the future either, as "downgrade" in Solaris and pretty much every o

Re: [zones-discuss] Interfaces to automate zone system identification

2007-11-15 Thread Mike Gerdts
e a look at zonemgr. It will do quite a bit of customization of a zone without interaction and may be just what you are looking for. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Shared-ip routing and VNI interface

2007-11-30 Thread Mike Gerdts
with the same error message above. The messages were interspersed, possibly implying that multiple threads were writing the messages. I had to hard reset the system to get back. Be careful with vni. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-

Re: [zones-discuss] netmask warning, misconfiguration

2007-12-03 Thread Mike Gerdts
etmasks would be worthless for that. For configuring IP addresses on the typical machine bolted to a rack or sitting on a desk, /etc/netmasks is quite manageable, stable, and desirable. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones

Re: [zones-discuss] netmask warning, misconfiguration

2007-12-03 Thread Mike Gerdts
continue to spread the word about "dynamic" frequently. I can't tell you how many times I have had to express the same to people that have a fear of it because they assume that every address allocated will be from a dynamic address range or that a

Re: [zones-discuss] dhcp/zone

2007-12-11 Thread Mike Gerdts
hcpd can run zones just fine. Solaris 10 update 3 and later (I forget which Nevada build) have all the required bits in place. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/2007-March/004266.html -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/

Re: [zones-discuss] dhcp/zone

2007-12-11 Thread Mike Gerdts
it work without any special tweaks was straightforward. If you offer up hints, I make take this on in the future. I've got a couple other things I want to work on before this one, though. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

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