Re: [zones-discuss] Confirming Zone running Container

2008-10-02 Thread Mike Gerdts
/globalzonename. I'll be changing that shortly to use lofs mounts so that it automatically handles things right with zoneadm detach + attach. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] rcapd

2008-09-01 Thread Mike Gerdts
punished. There may be circumstances where this outcome is desirable but server virtualization using zones is likely not one of them. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] [caiman-discuss] SNAP zones layout proposal.

2008-08-27 Thread Mike Gerdts
18K /share I'm done with scope creep now. :) -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] [caiman-discuss] SNAP zones layout proposal.

2008-08-26 Thread Mike Gerdts
/* -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] zone cloning using zfs?

2008-08-15 Thread Mike Gerdts
-? mention zfs? -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] swap memory cap and swap command output

2008-08-11 Thread Mike Gerdts
by rcapd. I suspect that you really want physical at 1 gig and swap at 1224M (1G + 200M). I really wish that swap didn't have multiple meanings. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zones-discuss] 6715679 - update on attach handling of /etc/release

2008-08-01 Thread Mike Gerdts
= B_TRUE; 1118 My thought is that if the package name is SUNWsolnm, infop-zpi_all_zones should be B_TRUE. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Seeking feedback: temporary detach/attach of existing zones to allow for

2008-06-23 Thread Mike Gerdts
them back. zoneadm -z $zone attach -u Since you say you require a patch, I'm guessing you are running S10. My understanding is that update on attach will come in S10u6. If you can hold on a few months, you will be in good shape. :/ -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com

Re: [zones-discuss] need input for zone update on attach

2008-06-18 Thread Mike Gerdts
the -P option makes sense. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] need input for zone update on attach

2008-06-17 Thread Mike Gerdts
be backed out. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] lsof/zone

2008-05-16 Thread Mike Gerdts
zone: # cd /proc # pfiles * Option 2: use lsof in the global zone In my opinion, neither option is a great option. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Best practice for patching with failover zones

2008-04-18 Thread Mike Gerdts
Groups/Zones between nodes. Again with freeze/unfreeze. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] can non-zones see less RAM than global?

2008-03-15 Thread Mike Gerdts
://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2006-August/033717.html (prstat and rcapd are much better about counting memory now, but I would still contend that if rcapd has to do any work it will induce poor performance across all workloads) -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com

Re: [zones-discuss] new option - cpu-dedicated

2008-03-11 Thread Mike Gerdts
, the latest rev of 119254 may hit: 6668239 patchadd -M might fail after intalling 119254-49 or later -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] How to configure Global/Local zone in seperate subnet and use seperate router

2008-03-05 Thread Mike Gerdts
, double the number of physical networks. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zones-discuss] zones on iSCSI LUNs

2008-02-15 Thread Mike Gerdts
partitions. When the time is right, new LUNs would be allocated for ZFS and data will be migrated. Any SVM disk sets will be destroyed in favor of using ZFS. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss

Re: [zones-discuss] zones on iSCSI LUNs

2008-02-15 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Ben Rockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Gerdts wrote: My understanding is that: [...] - In the next release of Solaris, zones will have to be on ZFS due to expected changes in packaging, patching, and installation. I am aware of no such change

Re: [zones-discuss] dhcp/zone

2007-12-11 Thread Mike Gerdts
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/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] dhcp/zone

2007-12-11 Thread Mike Gerdts
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

Re: [zones-discuss] netmask warning, misconfiguration

2007-12-03 Thread Mike Gerdts
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-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] netmask warning, misconfiguration

2007-12-03 Thread Mike Gerdts
to people that have a fear of it because they assume that every address allocated will be from a dynamic address range or that anything that plugs into the network will automatically get an IP address. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones

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

2007-11-08 Thread Mike Gerdts
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://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss

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

2007-11-08 Thread Mike Gerdts
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/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones

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

2007-11-08 Thread Mike Gerdts
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 other OS has traditionally be restore. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com

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

2007-11-04 Thread Mike Gerdts
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
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] Zones and NPIV

2007-11-03 Thread Mike Gerdts
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] [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 with that approach? Not that we don't see

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

2007-10-30 Thread Mike Gerdts
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.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list

Re: [zones-discuss] Solaris 8 Branded Zones

2007-10-25 Thread Mike Gerdts
. Certainly there are other strategies that could be applied (move many zones at once, use zfs send | something | zfs receive, AVS, etc.). -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2007-10-23 Thread Mike Gerdts
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. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com

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

2007-10-15 Thread Mike Gerdts
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 without a lot of RAM. -- Mike Gerdts http

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Groups

2007-10-10 Thread Mike Gerdts
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 Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com

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

2007-09-26 Thread Mike Gerdts
. How about a variant of: ps -o zone,user,pid,args -u fred This may produce ugly yet correct output (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

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

2007-09-26 Thread Mike Gerdts
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.blogspot.com

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

2007-09-19 Thread Mike Gerdts
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] 06/06 08/07

2007-09-10 Thread Mike Gerdts
. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2007-09-06 Thread Mike Gerdts
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] Multiple Vlans on Zones

2007-09-04 Thread Mike Gerdts
/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 Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com

Re: [zones-discuss] Zones on zfs

2007-08-16 Thread Mike Gerdts
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 directory on S10 media? -- Mike Gerdts http

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

2007-08-07 Thread Mike Gerdts
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] Creating a sparse root zone via a package's postinstall script

2007-08-01 Thread Mike Gerdts
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] E20K VCS in non-global Zone

2007-07-30 Thread Mike Gerdts
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/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2007-07-25 Thread Mike Gerdts
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/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones

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

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

2007-06-04 Thread Mike Gerdts
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/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones

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

2007-06-04 Thread Mike Gerdts
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
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 single user mode. (I have developed my own

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 my own workarounds to make

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

2007-05-25 Thread Mike Gerdts
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 mailing list zones

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

2007-05-15 Thread Mike Gerdts
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/ ___ zones-discuss

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

2007-05-10 Thread Mike Gerdts
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://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list

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

2007-04-29 Thread Mike Gerdts
. 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] zone hung in shutting_down status

2007-04-21 Thread Mike Gerdts
-- 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
. At this point it is 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

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

2007-03-29 Thread Mike Gerdts
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] Any plans for a Vmotion-like Zone migration tool?

2007-03-20 Thread Mike Gerdts
-- 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
to other subnets. When using the test above, 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

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

2007-02-07 Thread Mike Gerdts
/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] 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

[zones-discuss] Capped memory observability

2007-02-05 Thread Mike Gerdts
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 -- Mike Gerdts http

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

2006-12-07 Thread Mike Gerdts
. 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 uncomment function that reverses the work done by the comment function. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone installation problem.

2006-12-06 Thread Mike Gerdts
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://mgerdts.blogspot.com

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

2006-11-25 Thread Mike Gerdts
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] feedback requested: syslogging zone state transitions...

2006-10-27 Thread Mike Gerdts
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 daemon.debug. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com

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

2006-10-27 Thread Mike Gerdts
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://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss

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

2006-10-23 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 10/23/06, Roshan Perera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: zonecfg:sz44bsdvapdqc02:net set address=10.165.20.35/23 That should be: set address=10.165.20.35 You will then need an entry in the global zone's /etc/netmasks to ensure that the netmask is set properly as the zone is booted. Mike -- Mike

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

2006-08-17 Thread Mike Gerdts
. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2006-06-28 Thread Mike Gerdts
, tcp wrappers, etc. mentioned above. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

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