Re: [zones-discuss] How secure are zones? Hackers?

2010-11-30 Thread Octave Orgeron
You can definitely have the global zone on one physical interface and the non-global zone facing the internet on another physical interface. With proper firewalls, RBAC setup, and lock down of your zone, you can have a very secure configuration. Take a look at JASS/SST toolkit and the CIS

Re: [zones-discuss] Sparse zones in S11?

2010-11-04 Thread Octave Orgeron
FYI, sparse zones are dead in S11. This is due to the fact that S11 uses IPS and that removes the old SYSV packages and patching mechanisms. I agree that sparse zones should still be around using IPS somehow, but it's not in the cards.

Re: [zones-discuss] Solaris 8/9 branded zones on Nevada and/or x86

2009-10-02 Thread Octave Orgeron
Speaking from experience, there are some big deployments of Solaris 9 on x86 out there in the e-commerce and telco industries. But many have moved onto Solaris 10 thankfully. So I can understand the thinking here. But I'm sure there may be some good business cases where S8/9 branded zones on

Re: [zones-discuss] Moving zones between different sparc architecture

2009-02-05 Thread Octave Orgeron
Hi, This should work fine for zones, but I would recommend installing a full oem build on the global zone to be sure. However, with LDoms it's a little harder as the platform differences matter between T1, T2, and T2+ matters.

Re: [zones-discuss] LDoms

2008-04-16 Thread Octave Orgeron
Hi, Take a look at the LDoms community page: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/ldoms/ Take a look at the An Introduction to Logical Domains part 1-3 and the Sun BluePrints doc on LDoms. That should give you a good foundation. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J.

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

2007-03-20 Thread Octave Orgeron
Hi, LDOM's should work with this type of migration since each guest domain has its own virtual memory map, kernel, etc. It'll be a matter of insuring that the destination machine has the available resources to migrate to. Of course, this would still require some mechanism to do the migration

[zones-discuss] Re: [nfs-discuss] Re: [sysadmin-discuss] NFS server in zones

2007-02-14 Thread Octave Orgeron
Hi, Read below.. --- Calum Mackay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi Octave, thanks much for the comments. However, I think there's a need to take a few steps back... The requirements you list are things that seems to me to be: once we have decided that we want an NFS server in a zone, these

[zones-discuss] Re: [nfs-discuss] Re: [sysadmin-discuss] NFS server in zones

2007-02-14 Thread Octave Orgeron
Hi, --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) I think there are a variety of use cases that may have disjoint requirements from consolidation, and I want to hear about them, too. One example we had awhile back - SAS shares some of its data via NFS, and loses this ability in a zone. Do they need

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [nfs-discuss] Re: [sysadmin-discuss] NFS server in zones

2007-02-14 Thread Octave Orgeron
Hi Robert, Excellent point! I think this is a good example of why the same physical path can't be shared from a zone and the global zone at the same time. Perhaps excluding any zonepaths from being shared at the global zone is desirable if the nfs switch for that zone is turned on? Octave ---

[zones-discuss] Re: [sysadmin-discuss] NFS server in zones

2007-02-13 Thread Octave Orgeron
Hi, This has been a major complaint for many sysadmins and beta testers. I know one of my first bugs filed against the betas of Solaris 10 was the lack of NFS server functionality within zones. I've even been in the situation at work where this has been a requirement, only to have to scrap

[zones-discuss] Re: [sysadmin-discuss] NFS server in zones

2007-02-13 Thread Octave Orgeron
for this. I'd even be willing to help out, just have to keep in mind my programming is a little rusty:) Octave --- Tom Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Octave Orgeron wrote: Hi, This has been a major complaint for many sysadmins and beta testers. I know one of my first bugs filed