Re: [zones-discuss] Run user script when start zone

2012-03-24 Thread Jeff Victor
With Solaris 11 vnics, each zone can be excl-IP and share an adapter. Each of those zones controls its vnic, not the NIC. --JeffV Sent from my mobile device On Mar 24, 2012, at 7:22 AM, skeletor skele...@lissyara.su wrote: 23.03.2012 11:23, Ian Collins написал: For what you are trying to

Re: [zones-discuss] Has the restriction on sharing from a zone been removed yet?

2011-09-29 Thread Jeff Victor
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: On 09/30/11 03:01 AM, Edward Pilatowicz wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 04:57:12PM +1300, Ian Collins wrote: On 09/29/11 09:50 AM, Edward Pilatowicz wrote: nfs server is now supported in a zone on s11. smb server is

Re: [zones-discuss] psets for zones

2011-03-10 Thread Jeff Victor
Also, using method (2), you have told the Solaris kernel that it can move CPUs out of pset1 if another pset needs them. --JeffV On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Christian Meier meierc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, also have a look at the pset.load value. As long as the load is higher than the

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Resource Management Issue.

2010-12-15 Thread Jeff Victor
On Dec 15, 2010, at 1:18 AM, Ketan vibhu...@gmail.com wrote: B'coz .. the application user is telling that they are recieving memory related errors What are the error messages? and its responding too slow and the RSS column for that particular zone is pretty high around 13G as compared

Re: [zones-discuss] ON SMB/NFS server support for non-global zones

2010-12-05 Thread Jeff Victor
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Fabian R. Breschi fabian.bres...@acm.org wrote: A bit more clarity on that caution is due - this only applies to an NFS mount from the global zone on which the non-global zone is running.  Further, I thought that this was an interaction between UFS and NFS

Re: [zones-discuss] Zones zone.max-shm-memory setting.

2010-11-29 Thread Jeff Victor
Back to the original question (locked-shm-memory on servers): If you are running multiple applications on a server, and at least one of them uses shared memory, you should consider using max-shm-memory or max-locked-memory for the zone that will use shared memory. Any memory that a process locks

Re: [zones-discuss] lucreate failure call to zoneadmd failed

2010-11-02 Thread Jeff Victor
Hi Paul, It looks like the ABE's copy of zone z01.nyc-sed3 can't be brought to the state it needs to be in, to continue LU processing. Can the real zone z01.nyc-sed3 be booted? zoneadm list... shows it's not currently running. If it won't boot, try to address that problem first. --JeffV On

Re: [zones-discuss] Possible to use zones for hardening? Security?

2010-09-28 Thread Jeff Victor
If you configure a zone to use the exclusive-IP feature, the global zone will not be able to use the zone's network interfaces. See the zonecfg(1M) man page. On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 6:23 AM, Orvar Korvar knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com wrote: I am a home user with a PC and two SunRay2. I wonder

Re: [zones-discuss] Possible to use zones for hardening? Security?

2010-09-28 Thread Jeff Victor
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Orvar Korvar knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com wrote: Ok, so I shut down e1000g0 which means my global zone can not access internet. The local zone will have e1000g0:1 which I do not shut down, which means the local zone can access internet. Correct? But, if we

Re: [zones-discuss] confusing zone login processes

2010-06-03 Thread Jeff Victor
What is 3386? Is it the zone's init? Just a guess: Zone users are not allowed to learn of pids outside of the zone. --JeffV Sent from my Tricorder On Jun 2, 2010, at 3:30 AM, Frank Batschulat (Home) frank.batschu...@sun.com wrote: just noticed something strange, perhaps someone has an

Re: [zones-discuss] Use Zones/Containers or VirtualBox for application?

2010-01-06 Thread Jeff Victor
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:51 AM, David Browning dbtr...@optonline.net wrote: I built an Opensolaris media server and backup machine for my local network. At some point I would like to add ampache to my setup. If you are not familiar, it is a media server that will stream audio/video to client

Re: [zones-discuss] Application leaking on local zone

2009-12-17 Thread Jeff Victor
It would be useful to know if the memory leak is in locked memory or not. What isthe output of the following command, in both cases (app in GZ, app in a zone): GZ# pmap -x pid --JeffV On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 5:09 AM, AdinaKalin adina.kalin-flore...@sun.com wrote: Hello, I'm struggling with

Re: [zones-discuss] Difference between resource management attribbutes

2009-10-20 Thread Jeff Victor
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Ketan techie...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone answer my questions 1. Whats the difference between project.max-locked-memory  and max-rss. And out these 2 which is the preferred way of limiting the physical memory in a project or zone. RSS means Resident Set

Re: [zones-discuss] Resource Management Question

2009-10-09 Thread Jeff Victor
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Ketan techie...@gmail.com wrote: I 've 2 questions regarding resource pools and projects, 1. My system has 5 zones and 2 pools configured.   Now, how can i check which zone is running with with pool with the ps            command , not with zonecfg command.

Re: [zones-discuss] Processor Pool for zone: core threads question

2009-10-09 Thread Jeff Victor
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Joseph Balenzano joseph.balenz...@sun.com wrote: Paolo Merisio wrote: Hi all, actually we can add to zone configuration an object called dedicated-cpu with properties ncpus and importance. This object create a dedicated cpu Pool when zone starts and puts

Re: [zones-discuss] unable to move processors in pset

2009-10-08 Thread Jeff Victor
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Ketan techie...@gmail.com wrote: bash-3.00# poolcfg -d -c 'transfer 8 from pset pset_default to pset-app' poolcfg: cannot transfer 8 from pset_default to pset-app: Invalid configuration bash-3.00#  why i 'm getting this error ? Probably pset-app is already at

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

2009-10-02 Thread Jeff Victor
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Rainer Orth r...@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de wrote: As far as I've been able to find out so far, Solaris 8 and 9 branded zones are available and supported on Solaris 10 only right now, and only for SPARC.  Are there any plans to provide them for x86 and Nevada,

Re: [zones-discuss] Per-zone CPU Usage Reporting?

2009-09-18 Thread Jeff Victor
regards, HeCSa. http://www.aosug.com.ar On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Jeff Victor jeff.j.vic...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone written a tool to provide per-zone reporting of CPU usage - that can be shared? I know someone who wants to do this. Thanks in advance, --JeffV

Re: [zones-discuss] NFS server in zones

2009-08-05 Thread Jeff Victor
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Anon Y Mousno-re...@opensolaris.org wrote: I found this thread at forums.sun.com :  http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5333685 Looks like some ambitious Solaris sysadmins have already been running UNFS3 in Solaris Zones! Yes, I mentioned this concept

Re: [zones-discuss] Using zones for simple usage

2009-07-18 Thread Jeff Victor
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Peter Tribblepeter.trib...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Harry Putnamrea...@newsguy.com wrote: Alexander Skwar alexanders.mailinglists+nos...@gmail.com writes: What he plans can be done easily using NGZ (non-global zones). An NGZ also adds

Re: [zones-discuss] Using zones for simple usage

2009-07-18 Thread Jeff Victor
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Anon Y Mousno-re...@opensolaris.org wrote: One thing I've found to be true though: either a machine is all zoned, or not. It gets horribly confusing to have real activity in the global zone, where you can half see the non-global zones, so if you have zones

Re: [zones-discuss] /export/home missing on non global zone

2009-06-21 Thread Jeff Victor
Is this Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris? Which update or release? On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 1:29 PM, John Larsenno-re...@opensolaris.org wrote: Hello, im new to solaris and zones. I am exploring non-global zones for environment setup for testing. I have installed non-global zone and able to login

Re: [zones-discuss] zonestat 1.4.1 problem

2009-06-12 Thread Jeff Victor
Sorry, it's either line 513/514 - the one that gets the kstat swapresv_zone or 504/504, the one that gets the kstat lockedmem_zone. I need to clean out the deadwood in v1.5, too. On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Phil Freundno-re...@opensolaris.org wrote: Jeff, Those lines were already

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Isolation Host Protection (vbox in a zone panics system)

2009-06-11 Thread Jeff Victor
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Michael McKnightno-re...@opensolaris.org wrote: Hello everyone, I recently took on a project to run a VirtualBox guest within a whole Solaris zone.  The idea was to protect the Solaris system from any crashes vbox might have.  I need to run vbox on a

Re: [zones-discuss] zonestat 1.4.1 problem

2009-06-11 Thread Jeff Victor
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Phil Freundno-re...@opensolaris.org wrote: I have a couple of servers that are still running U1 but I'd still like to use zonestat to get as much info as I can. I get the following output when I run zonestat 1.4.1 with debug turned on: root zonestat -l -N

Re: [zones-discuss] Shared IP or Exclusive IP with vnics

2009-04-28 Thread Jeff Victor
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Vincent Boisard vbois...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your help, Let me summarize this: - Shared IP has the advantage that the global zone fully administers the network: zone don't have to (and even CAN'T) bother with it. There may be a slight advantage

Re: [zones-discuss] solaris10 brand project proposal

2009-04-27 Thread Jeff Victor
Just in case you need it: another +1. On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Jerry Jelinek gerald.jeli...@sun.com wrote: Dan Price wrote: Belatedly, a big +1. Jerry, if you have not already, I can take this to the OGB for creation. Thanks Dan. I think we have enough votes now. I will see

Re: [zones-discuss] Zonestat v1.4 Available

2009-04-09 Thread Jeff Victor
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 4:44 AM, Henrik Johansson henr...@henkis.net wrote: Nice work Jeff! Thanks Henrik! Some thoughts: Would not 1024 be bettet suited than 1000 for shorten? Currently if I set a swap capping with zonecfg to 256G it is displayed as 275G in zonestat. It would be nice to

[zones-discuss] Zonestat v1.4 Available

2009-04-08 Thread Jeff Victor
I posted Zonestat v1.4 at the Zone Statistics project page http://opensolaris.org/os/project/zonestat (click on Files in the left navbar). My blog http://blogs.sun.com/jeffv lists the new features and bug fixes. Please send questions and requests to zones-discuss@opensolaris.org . --JeffV

[zones-discuss] Zones Parallel Patching

2009-04-02 Thread Jeff Victor
Just FYI: I measured patching throughput improvement with the not-yet-released Zones Parallel Patching patch. You can read about my findings at http://blogs.sun.com/JeffV/entry/patching_zones_goes_zoom . --JeffV ___ zones-discuss mailing list

Re: [zones-discuss] Container support

2009-03-16 Thread Jeff Victor
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 5:36 AM, Stewart Mathieson stewart.mathie...@sun.com wrote: IHAC who is using the Solaris Migration Tools/Solaris 8 Container and the licence agreement in the download talks about only being a 90 day evaluation RTU licence

Re: [zones-discuss] resource pool for Zone

2009-03-07 Thread Jeff Victor
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Anthony Yeung anthon...@sun.com wrote: Can we setup resource pool inside a Zone? HI Anthony, If you are logged into a zone, you cannot set up a resource pool. If you want to create a resource pool and assign a zone to it, you can do that from the global zone.

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone in a pset with high load generating high packet loss at the frame level

2009-03-05 Thread Jeff Victor
Thanks for the great feedback Gael. Comments below. On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Gael gael.marti...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Jeff Victor jeff.j.vic...@gmail.com wrote: Some questions: 1. Do you use set pool= anymore, now that the dedicated-cpu feature exists? We

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone in a pset with high load generating high packet loss at the frame level

2009-03-05 Thread Jeff Victor
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Steve Lawrence stephen.lawre...@sun.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 01:22:25PM -0500, Jeff Victor wrote: On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Gael gael.marti...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Jeff Victor jeff.j.vic...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone in a pset with high load generating high packet loss at the frame level

2009-03-04 Thread Jeff Victor
, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Jeff Victor jeff.j.vic...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Gael gael.marti...@gmail.com wrote: Many thanks to Bob Netherton and Jeff for their quick help on that painful issue. The solution was to use psrset -f on the heavily used pset. It is fully supported

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone in a pset with high load generating high packet loss at the frame level

2009-03-03 Thread Jeff Victor
Hello Gael, On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Gael gael.marti...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Got a zone running SAS with cpu capping enabled using a processor set as we see a few processes using quite a bit of cpu there too often. Is that zone assigned to a resource pool, or is it using the

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone in a pset with high load generating high packet loss at the frame level

2009-03-03 Thread Jeff Victor
:19 PM, Jeff Victor jeff.j.vic...@gmail.com wrote: - Show quoted text - Hello Gael, On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Gael gael.marti...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Got a zone running SAS with cpu capping enabled using a processor set as we see a few processes using quite a bit of cpu there too

Re: [zones-discuss] zonestat.pl without Resource Pools

2009-02-21 Thread Jeff Victor
, but doesn't hurt performance - or anything else. Has any work started on a 'real' zonestat yet? I believe that design work has begun, but these things take time... On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Jeff Victor jeff.j.vic...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Derek McEachern

Re: [zones-discuss] NTP client in non-global zone

2009-02-19 Thread Jeff Victor
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Timothy Kennedy timothy.kenn...@sun.com wrote: Nicolas Dorfsman wrote: It would be a great idea to have a easy solution to give these privileges to a zone. in zonecfg for a given zone, set limitpriv=default,proc_lock_memory,proc_priocntl,sys_time David

Re: [zones-discuss] Share a non-global zone folder

2009-02-19 Thread Jeff Victor
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Asif Iqbal vad...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I am running solaris 10 update 6. I know I cannot nfs share a non-global zone folder. I want to have a central syslog server on non global zone and have the log file shared with remote hosts Is there a workaround? A

Re: [zones-discuss] zonestat.pl without Resource Pools

2009-02-17 Thread Jeff Victor
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Derek McEachern derekmceach...@gmail.com wrote: We are in the process of deploying applications into zones and I've been looking at how to monitor what each zone is up to regarding resource usage. I downloaded the zonestat.pl script to play around with and out

Re: [zones-discuss] Add a zpool to a Zone w/o reboot

2009-02-16 Thread Jeff Victor
Sorry Alex, I didn't include enough information to properly convey my idea. From the *global* zone, you would use # mount -F lofs ZFS-mountpoint zonepath/root/directory-in-the-zone For example: # mount -F lofs /mypool/zones/myzone-usr-local /zones/myzone/root/usr/local On Mon, Feb 16, 2009

Re: [zones-discuss] Making directories in /usr visible (from global zone) in non-global zone

2009-02-11 Thread Jeff Victor
Output of mount in both the GZ and the zone. -Arun Jeff Victor wrote: Is it a sparse-root zone or a whole-root zone? It should be visible in a sparse-root, but a whole-root zone has its own separate copy of /usr. On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Arun Gupta arun.gu...@sun.com wrote: I

Re: [zones-discuss] ip-type private won't work for me

2009-02-10 Thread Jeff Victor
Please provide the output of ifconfig -a and netstat -rn for each non-global zone. On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Charles Meo charles@ltx.com.au wrote: Greetings all, I have been trying to set up a X2200 with a global zone on an internal LAN with bge0, and two zones for web servers each

Re: [zones-discuss] Making directories in /usr visible (from global zone) in non-global zone

2009-02-09 Thread Jeff Victor
Is it a sparse-root zone or a whole-root zone? It should be visible in a sparse-root, but a whole-root zone has its own separate copy of /usr. On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Arun Gupta arun.gu...@sun.com wrote: I installed GlassFish in global zone in /usr directory. However this directory

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

2009-02-06 Thread Jeff Victor
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:36 PM, pol.barthel...@sun.com pol.barthel...@sun.com wrote: Hello, It is supported to move zones from a sun4u to a sun4v or vice-versa ? Full support is available for that, starting with S10 10/08 (aka U6). -- --JeffV ___

[zones-discuss] Adding a NIC to running zones

2009-01-28 Thread Jeff Victor
A NIC can be added to a running shared-IP zone by using the ifconfig command its zone parameter. Can an unplumbed NIC be added to a running exclusive-IP zone usnig the same method? (I don't have a system with enough NICs to test this.) Thanks, --JeffV

Re: [zones-discuss] Creating ZFS filesystems prior to zoneadm install

2009-01-25 Thread Jeff Victor
Hi Jason, I frequently recommend creating a writable /usr/local under the read-only /usr to solve this problem. One simple method to do this is: zonecfg -z myzone add fs set special=/mypool/zones/usr-local set dir=/usr/local set type=lofs end exit Will that work for you? --JeffV On Thu, Jan

[zones-discuss] New Sun BluePrint on Solaris Zones

2008-12-22 Thread Jeff Victor
Hot off the press! Glenn Brunette and I wrote a Sun BluePrint that explains the security features of Solaris Zones/Containers: http://wikis.sun.com/display/BluePrints/Understanding+the+Security+Capabilities+of+Solaris+Zones+Software Contents * Zone Root File System * Process

[zones-discuss] Privilege for sticky bit?

2008-12-22 Thread Jeff Victor
Why is the sys_config priv needed to set the sticky bit on a file or directory? This priv is not allowed in a zone, so a process in a zone can't set the sticky bit. Thanks for pointers... --JeffV ___ zones-discuss mailing list

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Bandwidth

2008-12-09 Thread Jeff Victor
Hi Jon, With shared-IP zones the network statistics are not broken out per-zone. If you configure the zone as an exclusive-IP zone, it gets its own NICs, and the per-NIC counters will display what you want. You didn't mention if your interest was in Solaris, OpenSolaris, or both. In the future,

Re: [zones-discuss] Java out of memory error in a zone

2008-12-07 Thread Jeff Victor
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Ian Matchett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Solaris 8/07 a customer is running in a zone but java 1.5 is getting out of memory error. The fact that it's running in a zone is irrelevant unless the software is trying to modify the kernel, drivers, etc. This can be

Re: [zones-discuss] Dynamically chaninging zone.cpu-shares has no effect

2008-11-25 Thread Jeff Victor
Hi Rainer, (see below) On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Rainer Orth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently tried to temporarily change zone.cpu-shares of the global zone on a Sun Fire X4200 M2 running Solaris 10 Update 5. Per default, both the global and the imap zone have 10 shares:

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Statistics: monitoring resource use of zones

2008-11-21 Thread Jeff Victor
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Mike Gerdts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Jeff Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kevin, I believe that you cannot patch your way from U1 to U5 - i.e. that the system is missing some functionality that would be there if you had

Re: [zones-discuss] Moving the zonepath (directory) to another file system

2008-11-19 Thread Jeff Victor
It should be possible to: zoneadm -z zone move /zones/tmp/zone push disks around zoneadm -z zone move /original-dir That prevents a need to use zonecfg or doing unsupported things. Yes? On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Christine Tran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:16 PM,

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Statistics: monitoring resource use of zones

2008-11-17 Thread Jeff Victor
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Mike Gerdts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Jeff Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me, the clearest example would be a kstat, per zone, which provides the total amount of CPU time for all of the processes in each zone, since the zone

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Statistics: monitoring resource use of zones

2008-11-16 Thread Jeff Victor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 1:54 AM, Jeff Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has become clear that there is a need to monitor resource consumption of workloads in zones, and an easy method to compare consumption to resource controls. In order to understand how a software tool

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Statistics: monitoring resource use of zones

2008-11-10 Thread Jeff Victor
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Mike Gerdts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Jeff Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: zonestat intro snipped If you have any comments, or suggestions for improvement, please let me know on this e-mail list or via private e-mail. I've had

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Statistics: monitoring resource use of zones

2008-11-10 Thread Jeff Victor
. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Victor Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 5:54 PM To: zones-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: [zones-discuss] Zone Statistics: monitoring resource use of zones It has become clear that there is a need

Re: [zones-discuss] ipfilter (ipf.conf) entries in zonecfg?

2008-11-09 Thread Jeff Victor
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Tommy McNeely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Zones experts, We are attempting to create a new data center architecture that favors virtualization with zones. Previously, if we wanted to have zones from different security contexts (front-end, back-end,

[zones-discuss] Zone Statistics: monitoring resource use of zones

2008-11-09 Thread Jeff Victor
It has become clear that there is a need to monitor resource consumption of workloads in zones, and an easy method to compare consumption to resource controls. In order to understand how a software tool could fulfill this need, I created an OpenSolaris project and a prototype to get started. If

Re: [zones-discuss] Questions regarding Solaris containers

2008-10-23 Thread Jeff Victor
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Tamer Embaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steffen Weiberle wrote: 5. Can somebody clarify me whether ZFS is supported for containers? Since ZFS has the concept of creating pool of devices first and on top of that file systems can be created. I would like to

Re: [zones-discuss] zoneroot on nfs?

2008-10-22 Thread Jeff Victor
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Ben Rockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason King wrote: I haven't found any documentation (yet, still looking), that says anything either way, but I'm wondering to facilitate zone migration if you can place a zone root on an NFS filesystem? Obviously would

Re: [zones-discuss] Questions regarding Solaris containers

2008-10-21 Thread Jeff Victor
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Challa, Narsimha Reddy (STSD-HYD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 7. Can we get CPU and Memory utilization statistics used by a specific container (either from with in the container or from global zone)? prstat -Z may provide the data you want to see. -- --JeffV

Re: [zones-discuss] Running Oracle Database inside Solaris 8/9 Container Using Sun Cluster

2008-10-21 Thread Jeff Victor
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Eric Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, Our customers like to run existing Oracle database inside Solaris 8/9 container using Sun Cluster. Please kindly advise if - Is this configuration certified by Oracle? You should ask Oracle. They will want to know

Re: [zones-discuss] Confirming Zone running Container

2008-10-02 Thread Jeff Victor
Although it's a feature, if you need this functionality, the global zone can store its name in a file which the Container can read. On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Nicolas Dorfsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le 2 oct. 08 à 21:00, Bruce, Phillip a écrit : If your logged into a container, how can

Re: [zones-discuss] [sysadmin-discuss] Patch Strategy

2008-09-23 Thread Jeff Victor
Nicolas Dorfsman wrote: Hi all, My english should not good enough to make you understand. STOP please to write zonepath on ZFS is supported. Everytime you say that, the next sentence is to say but with limitations, blabla. We try to provide all of the relevant

Re: [zones-discuss] [sysadmin-discuss] [Fwd: [Fwd: Patch Strategy]]

2008-09-22 Thread Jeff Victor
Adding zones-discuss. Mike Gerdts wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 4:57 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While U6 has many significant enhancements, most notably ZFS Root/Boot, it is likely that Zones on ZFS will only be fully supported in U7. This is really quite surprising and

Re: [zones-discuss] vxfs setting=value style mount options

2008-09-10 Thread Jeff Victor
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Jerry Jelinek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:55:53PM +0100, Lewis Thompson wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 09:04 -0400, Jeff Victor wrote: The zonecfg man page has an example of the use of fs options

[zones-discuss] Sybase 12.5.1 in Solaris 8 Container, raw?

2008-09-10 Thread Jeff Victor
I have heard that Sybase runs in a Solaris 8 Container. Can anyone provide details on versions of Sybase that have been run in a Solaris 8 Container, and whether Sybase can run in an S8C and use raw devices ? Thanks, --JeffV ___ zones-discuss mailing

Re: [zones-discuss] vxfs setting=value style mount options

2008-09-09 Thread Jeff Victor
Hi Lewis, On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Lewis Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a simple zone configured to test the VxFS 'convosync=direct' option. It's an s10u5 machine with no additional patches: zonecfg:lt203398:fs info fs: dir: /foo

Re: [zones-discuss] Zones CPU resource management

2008-09-02 Thread Jeff Victor
Hello Vincent, From your message, it appears that you do not need to use capped-cpu. However, if you find that you have a need to use both, it will work, although there is potential to confuse Solaris and/or yourself. For example, what happens if you set cpu-shares so that a zone must get at

Re: [zones-discuss] Zones CPU resource management

2008-09-02 Thread Jeff Victor
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Vincent Boisard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your help, Comments below ... On 9/2/08, Jeff Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Vincent, From your message, it appears that you do not need to use capped-cpu. However, if you find that you have a need

Re: [zones-discuss] rcapd

2008-09-01 Thread Jeff Victor
Hi Syed, I would not be surprised to find that rcapd is behaving correctly on your system. All of the containers in one Solaris instance share one Solaris paging system and one set of swap devices. When rcapd is paging the memory pages of one container out to the swap device, other workloads

Re: [zones-discuss] Memory allocation for non-global zones

2008-08-27 Thread Jeff Victor
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Patrick Ho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can a non-global zone utilize all the available memory on the system if resource management is not used and rcap is not used? A non-global zone could use up most of the free physical memory on the system. If that happened,

Re: [zones-discuss] going beyond 255 zones

2008-08-26 Thread Jeff Victor
This doesn't answer your question, but it may help resolve issues you haven't experience yet: I created 1,000 zones on a system. I wrote about the experience here: http://blogs.sun.com/JeffV/entry/spawning_0_5kz_hr_part http://blogs.sun.com/JeffV/entry/spawning_0_5kz_hr_part1

Re: [zones-discuss] non global zone memory allocation enquiry

2008-08-21 Thread Jeff Victor
rcapstat(1M). On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:29 AM, Gauss Tang - Sun Microsystems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Expert, We can check the zone memory allocation via command zonecfg -z zonename info capped-memory: physical: 256M But how to check this info after longin the zone? -- --JeffV

Re: [zones-discuss] setting up Multipath for local zones in Solaris 10

2008-08-15 Thread Jeff Victor
Yes, a zone can be configured as an exclusive-IP zone which gives it the ability to configure IPMP within the zone - and other networking abilities. See http://blogs.sun.com/JeffV/entry/high_availability_networking_for_solaris and

Re: [zones-discuss] cmn_err / zcmn_err

2008-08-15 Thread Jeff Victor
IMO the behavior of errors in zones should mimic that of errors in non-zoned systems, with the addition of the concept of the global zone as platform administrative area, as you stated. So the message in this case should go to the global zone and to the zone in which the error occurred. On Mon,

[zones-discuss] Default and max values for new rctls

2007-10-06 Thread Jeff Victor
What are the default and maximum values for the new zone-specific resource controls: zone.max-shm-memory zone.max-shm-ids zone.max-msg-ids zone.max-sem-ids ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zones-discuss] Detect pkgs installed with -G?

2007-09-05 Thread Jeff Victor
How can someone learn whether a package was installed in the global zone *with* -G - or without it? ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Can the network interface of a local zone getadynamic ipv4 address?

2007-08-03 Thread Jeff Victor
-- -- Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr. Technical Specialist Solaris 10 Zones FAQ:http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zones/faq

Re: [zones-discuss] Can the network interface of a local zone get a dynamic ipv4 address?

2007-08-03 Thread Jeff Victor
? -- -- Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr. Technical Specialist Solaris 10 Zones FAQ:http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zones/faq

Re: [zones-discuss] CA etrust compatible with zones?

2007-08-02 Thread Jeff Victor
references zones, but for a different version of the product. Any and all RTFM pointers appreciated. /jn -- -- Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr

Re: [zones-discuss] Zones and Routing

2007-08-01 Thread Jeff Victor
. -- Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr. Technical Specialist Solaris 10 Zones FAQ:http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zones/faq

Re: [zones-discuss] zonename

2007-07-27 Thread Jeff Victor
___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org -- -- Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS

Re: [zones-discuss] zones and cpu shares

2007-07-19 Thread Jeff Victor
commands). You would still use the commands in (2) and (3) above, and add set pool=poolname to each zonecfg session. As you can see, there is a great deal of flexibility in Solaris resource management. -- Jeff VICTOR

Re: [zones-discuss] zones and cpu shares

2007-07-19 Thread Jeff Victor
stops, its dedicated CPUs are made available for assignment to other pools. Also, you can set ncpus=2 without setting a minimum and maximum. -- Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS

Re: [zones-discuss] Zones and Dtrace

2007-07-12 Thread Jeff Victor
. -- -- Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr. Technical Specialist Solaris 10 Zones FAQ:http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zones/faq

Re: [zones-discuss] installing zones

2007-07-12 Thread Jeff Victor
opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org -- -- Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS Ambassador

Re: [zones-discuss] Setting up a testing environment for a P2P application

2007-07-12 Thread Jeff Victor
uname -a zlogin zone1 uname -a -- Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr. Technical Specialist Solaris 10 Zones FAQ:http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community

Re: [zones-discuss] Zones and 3D applications

2007-07-11 Thread Jeff Victor
, sharing the 3D card) Any help would be appreciated Regards Amir -- -- Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr. Technical Specialist Solaris 10 Zones FAQ

Re: [zones-discuss] patch added in GZ not seen in NGZ

2007-07-09 Thread Jeff Victor
will fail. The message will be of the form: Package not patched: PKG=SUN Original package not installed -- Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS Ambassador

Re: [zones-discuss] Mystery inherited-pkg-dir behavior (newbie alert)

2007-07-06 Thread Jeff Victor
pkgadd -G ... in the global zone. This is described in pkgadd(1M). -- Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr. Technical Specialist Solaris 10 Zones FAQ:http

Re: [zones-discuss] Zones without pools: sure, why not?

2007-07-06 Thread Jeff Victor
? :-) -- Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr. Technical Specialist Solaris 10 Zones FAQ:http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zones/faq

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: Re: zonepath

2007-06-25 Thread Jeff Victor
or raw device access to a disk slice, then the zone's root user can destroy a file system that has been created on the slice. What happens is the same thing that happens in a non-zoned system. Does that help? -- Jeff VICTOR

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: Re: zonepath

2007-06-18 Thread Jeff Victor
be safer to create multiple directories in /export/home, one for each zone, e.g. /export/home/zone1, and then LOFS-mount that directory into the appropriate zone. -- Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystems

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: zonepath

2007-06-15 Thread Jeff Victor
on /zones. -- -- Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr. Technical Specialist Solaris 10 Zones FAQ:http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zones/faq

Re: [zones-discuss] zone admin best practices doc?

2007-06-15 Thread Jeff Victor
___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org -- -- Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr. Technical Specialist

Re: [zones-discuss] zonecfg and dhcp for shared interface?

2007-06-14 Thread Jeff Victor
. -- -- Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystemsjeff.victor @ sun.com OS AmbassadorSr. Technical Specialist Solaris 10 Zones FAQ:http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zones/faq

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