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 benchmark for 
Solaris 
on guidlines for securing your Solaris/OpenSolaris installs.

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- Original Message 
From: Orvar Korvar knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com
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Sent: Tue, November 30, 2010 7:48:31 AM
Subject: [zones-discuss] How secure are zones? Hackers?

I am thinking if it is safer to reach the outside world internet, via a Zone. 
Will this add additional security, with respect to the global zone?

I think this is an interesting question?
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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.

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- Original Message 
From: Orvar Korvar knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com
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Sent: Thu, November 4, 2010 5:36:34 AM
Subject: [zones-discuss] Sparse zones in S11?

I hope the sparse zones will be improved in S11? Like, patch only the global 
zone, etc.

Is there work done on sparse zones in S11?
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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 x86 would be 
desirable.

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- Original Message 
From: Jeff Victor jeff.j.vic...@gmail.com
To: Rainer Orth r...@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
Cc: zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
Sent: Friday, October 2, 2009 8:54:27 PM
Subject: Re: [zones-discuss] Solaris 8/9 branded zones on Nevada and/or x86

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, too?

There wasn't much Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 deployed on x86, so, to the
best of my knowledge, there will not be a Solaris 8 Containers or
Solaris 9 Containers for x86.

As for Nevada - do you also mean x86?

 There are two reasons I'm asking: I'd like to test current versions of
 GCC on older Solaris releases without having to run on bare metal.  Of
 course I could use VirtualBox or xVM on x86, but the performance won't
 be too good (I tested a GCC bootstrap on xVM dom0 quite some time ago
 and it took about twice as long as on bare metal).  And on SPARC, I
 don't have a spare Ldom available to run Solaris 10, but would rather
 use a zone on a V880 running Nevada.

 Especially given the fact that Sun wants to get Solaris 10 users on bare
 metal to Nevada (Solaris 11, whatever) quickly by providing Solaris 10
 branded zones, it would only make sense to provide S8/S9 branded zones
 on S11 as well.

I follow your logic. It is very important to distinguish between the
bi-weekly builds of OpenSolaris, the supported releases of the
OpenSolaris distro, and the-next-version-of-Solaris-after-10. They are
different entities, and the abilities to run S8C or S9C on each of
those are very different things.

S8C and S9C are (non-open-source) products that Sun (as opposed to
other distributors of OpenSolaris distros) makes available. I don't
think that this is an appropriate place for discussion of Sun's
product futures. But I have been wrong about such things before...

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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.

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- Original Message 
From: Ben Rockwood b...@cuddletech.com
To: pol.barthel...@sun.com pol.barthel...@sun.com
Cc: zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2009 3:45:00 PM
Subject: Re: [zones-discuss] Moving zones between different sparc architecture

pol.barthel...@sun.com wrote:
 Hello,
 It is supported to move  zones from a sun4u to a sun4v or vice-versa ?

I'm not certain if its supported, but it does work.

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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.
 
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From: Sanjay Akula [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:57:15 PM
Subject: [zones-discuss] LDoms

Can any one tell me how LDoms works? Does this is an independent OS on each 
zones or it is dependent on Global zone? 
 
I'm new to LDoms.
 
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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 (coordinating memory mapping, storage, TCP/IP stack,
etc.). So it's still not an easy thing, but I'm sure it could be done.

Zones on the other hand are tied closely to the kernel running in the
global zone. So it probably won't be possible to do without some method
of migrating the processes, kernel space, reassigning PID's, etc. And
then you have the issue of keeping all of your machines in sync (OS
version, patches, etc.). So there is some additional overhead and
management requirements.

It would be great to see this possible with the above solutions. But
I'll leave it to the experts to make it happen:)

Octave
 
--- Mike Gerdts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On 3/20/07, Nils Nieuwejaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  When migrating a zone, you would have to find some way to extricate
 the
  kernel state for just that some subset of a system's processes,
 devices,
  network connections, etc. - then insert that state into the middle
 of a
  kernel already running on another machine.  To put it mildly, that
 would be
  hard.
 
 OpenVZ (similar to zones, from my understanding) can do this on
 Linux.
 
 http://wiki.openvz.org/Checkpointing_and_live_migration
 http://openvz.org/news/announcements/openvz-sparc-20070102
 
  If you want live migration on Solaris, and you are using x86/x64
 machines,
  then you should be looking at Xen.
  http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/xen
 
 Does running on sun4v LDOMs help provide a path to this?  To someone
 that hasn't really looked at how LDOMs get their initial state, it
 seems as though this would be quite doable.
 
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[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 are
 important 
 things that should be true of the delivered product.
 
 But I'm not yet seeing clear reasons for *why* we want an NFS server
 in 
 a zone. I'm certainly not saying that we don't want this, I just want
 to 
 fully understand the need for it.
 

There are many reasons that people would want this. To list a few: 
1. Consolidate different NFS sharing environments that have to be
seperate.
2. Provide SA's with their own test jumpstart environment without
wasting a server per SA. This has come up as a project at two different
employers of mine.
3. Consolidate developer environments onto one system. Each zone may be
for different departments that need to NFS share their products. 
4. Consolidate NFS home directories and keep them separate per line of
business.

I think you can see a pattern here. People want to consolidate
environments that normally require separate servers. There are many
applications of NFS and to require all NFS to be managed from the
global zone is backward. It prevents owners of a Zone from being able
to manage their own services. It's totally reasonable to keep
management of cpu, memory, networking, storage, etc up at the global
zone level. But it does not make sense for basic services, like NFS.

  scrap projects. Probably the most common idea for having a zone NFS
  server is for Jumpstart or home directories. As things stand today,
  it's not doable. 
 
 Right, but these things are easily done (of course) using a server in
 
 the global zone: what advantages do we gain by putting the server in
 a 
 local zone?
 

Simple, NFS is a basic UNIX service. If you want to provide zones to
different groups within your business that have their own SA's, it's a
roadblock for projects. An SA who manages a zone has to contact the
global zone SA to make simple NFS changes. For a services based data
center this is a waste of time. It's understandable to require owners
of zones to request more cpu, memory, storage, etc. These are things
that need to be charged back for ROI. NFS is a basic service and should
be manageable from a zone. It's like requiring SSH access to be
controlled from the global zone.



  I think the key requirements would be:
  
  1. Full NFS server functionality within a zone. So things like
 share,
  /etc/dfs/dfstab, sharemgr, ZFS sharing, etc. should work in the
 same
  manner as they do in the global zone.
 
 Yes, this would definitely be a delivery requirement for this
 project, 
 but it doesn't sound like a justification for it.
 
  2. Security. Separation of NFS namespace to insure proper security
  between zones. 
 
 I'm not sure I quite understand this. Would you please expand?
 

Meaning that if a zone is compromised, the other NFS shares across the
machine should not be accessible or manageable. 

  3. Performance. NFS serving out of a zone should not be slower or
 less
  scalable than NFS serving from the global zone.
 
 Indeed, this would be an important delivery requirement, of course.
 
 thanks again for your comments.
 
 cheers,
 calum.
 


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[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 anything different?
 
 2) Since NFS is mostly an in-kernel service, unlike something like
 Apache, if you have some kind of issue with NFS stability, you lose
 the whole box, not just the zone.  This lack of fault isolation isn't
 always something that people are aware of.  Does this change anything
 for your use case?
 

This is a great point and shows that there has to be some reorg of the
NFS framework. I don't know if that means we need a pseudo instance of
the kernel modules for each zone. Or if we have to break it up into
components that should be unique to each zone and ones that should be
common.

 2) Due to the above, it seems like the global zone admin should have
 a knob to turn to enable or disable the ability of a zone to share
 out files via NFS.  Do people agree?
 

I agree there is should be knob. Perhaps something in zonecfg like:

add service
set type=nfs
end

That would enable the zone to be an nfs server. What do you think?

 2.5) Is this related to whether the global zone can share a resource?
 
 3) I know we've talked about a zone not being able to share stuff
 outside of its namespace, but I wonder if we should further restrict
 this to sharing storage that's fully administered in the zone, e.g.
 you can't share a filesystem you got via lofs, but you can share
 from a /dev/dsk/cxtxdx or a zpool that had been fully delegated to
 you.  Opinions?
 

This might be useful for higher levels of security. Not sure how we
would go about that, but it's definitely an interesting idea that I'm
sure some gov. agency would love:)

 4) A bug currently prevents a client instance and a server instance
 from being safe to use on the same box (apologies, can't quote the
 bugid from here).  How likely, in your use case, is it that this will
 be a problem, i.e. will your boxes be in the position where a zone
 needs data shared from another zone as opposed to a separate server?
 

I can definitely see situations where one zone is a server for another
zone. One wacky idea would be a N1GE master zone sharing it's grid
shares to execution nodes that could be anywhere on the network or even
on the same box!


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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

--- Robert Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
 On Feb 14, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Edward Pilatowicz wrote:
 
  On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:26:48PM +0100, Menno Lageman wrote:
  Robert Gordon wrote:
 
  So could we all agree that:
 
  An NFS Server in a zone means that the namespace it exports is  
  restricted
  to that zone only.  By that i mean no global zone access to that
  namespace,
  nor would that namespace be re-exported within another NFS Server
  
  zone
  instance ?
 
  I have some trouble parsing that, but my perception of the desired
  behaviour is:
  - a zone can only export resources that are within that zone (i.e.
  everything below it's zonepath),
  - a resource exported from a zone, may not at the same time be  
  exported
  from the global zone; i.e. if zone a exports /export/foo then
  /zones/a/root/export/foo may not be exported by the global zone)
  - zone A and zone B may both export their own /export/foo since
 those
  are two distinct resources.
 
 
  this all makes logical sense to me.
 
  i would refine your second point though because it doesn't take
 into
  account lofs mounts.
 
  ex,  if i have /export/foo in the global zone and then in zonecfg i
  configure a filesystem resource such that this directory is also
  lofs mounted in the zone at /export/foo, then who should be able
  to export the filesystem?
 
  it seems to me that both the local zone and the global zone
  should be able to export it (or not export it) independantly.
 
  ed
 
 There maybe a conflicting security requirement here. Lets say
 I'm SA of the zone and i have exported /export/foo with krb5i
 (since my foo really needs tight security :) ) to a limited
 set of clients. Then along comes Mr Global SA and exports it
 with auth_sys to any old nfs client..
 
 seems like that might be an issue ?
 
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[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 projects. Probably the most common idea for having a zone NFS
server is for Jumpstart or home directories. As things stand today,
it's not doable. I've even escalated this thru different channels over
the past few years only to see it go no where. I'm sure there is a lot
of demand for this feature for zones.

I think the key requirements would be:

1. Full NFS server functionality within a zone. So things like share,
/etc/dfs/dfstab, sharemgr, ZFS sharing, etc. should work in the same
manner as they do in the global zone.
2. Security. Separation of NFS namespace to insure proper security
between zones. This may be achieved by making the kernel NFS framework
aware of the zoneid context.
3. Performance. NFS serving out of a zone should not be slower or less
scalable than NFS serving from the global zone.

Starting a project would be nice. But I think there should be close
involvement with the NFS engineers at Sun. As for getting their
attention and funding, the best we can do is show enough community
interest for NFS within zones.

So I'd ask all sysadmins, developers, etc. to respond to this thread to
show support for fixing this.

--- Tom Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Before I propose a project for NFS to start getting NFS servers
 working 
 in zones, I'd
 like to find out the requirements. I've been going over internal mail
 
 threads in the NFS
 group and the two things that seem to stand in the way to getting NFS
 
 completely in
 zones are:
 
 1) Staffing - this is not on our roadmaps.
 
 2) Lack of requirements - we don't know what people want.
 
 I look at the first hurdle and see a golden opportunity for a real 
 OpenSolaris project -
 since internal developers aren't scheduled to do this work, we can
 get 
 external
 developers involved from the start of the project.
 
 Of course, the second hurdle really stops us from kicking off the
 project.
 
 I'll start the ball rolling by kicking in some thoughts that Spencer
 Shepler
 provided when I asked him about getting this project started:
 
   One of the things we have been struggling with in deciding if and
 how 
 to fund
   a zonification of the NFS server is understanding exactly what
 people 
 need/want.
   One simple requirement seems to be that of server consolidation.  
 That can
   be handled generally with IP address/interface aliasing.  But
 there are
   obviously other reasons as well that someone may want a
 zoneification
   of the NFS server.
  
   Are people trying to delegation administration?  Configure a
 system
   for testing or software deployment testing or...
  
   So my suggestion would be to start a thead of discussion about
 what the
   requirements are that lead people to thinking of NFS server in a
 zone.
   The point of this exercise is to understand if that is the only
   or most appropriate answer?
  
   For example, we may be able to combine the admin delegation stuff
   that has been talked about for ZFS to things like the shareadm
   command and to the nfsd daemon.  Is it more effective, easier, to
   build a delegation of administration of the NFS services than
   to require someone to create zones and hand over all of the 
 administration
   for those zones.  Maybe it is better to have things in the zone
 since
   there would be IP-identity confusion for a strict delegation
 method.
 
 We should define the requirements as a community and then get the
 project
 started in that community.
 
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[zones-discuss] Re: [sysadmin-discuss] NFS server in zones

2007-02-13 Thread Octave Orgeron
Hi Tom,

Thanks for the input. I agree that it'll take a lot of involvement from
the community to deliver the code. But I also think there some should a
lot of collaboration with the NFS engineers to insure we don't break
stuff:) I'm all for a project to be launched from the NFS or Zones
community 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 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 projects. Probably the most common idea for having a zone NFS
  server is for Jumpstart or home directories. As things stand today,
  it's not doable. I've even escalated this thru different channels
 over
  the past few years only to see it go no where. I'm sure there is a
 lot
  of demand for this feature for zones.
 
  I think the key requirements would be:
 
  1. Full NFS server functionality within a zone. So things like
 share,
  /etc/dfs/dfstab, sharemgr, ZFS sharing, etc. should work in the
 same
  manner as they do in the global zone.
  2. Security. Separation of NFS namespace to insure proper security
  between zones. This may be achieved by making the kernel NFS
 framework
  aware of the zoneid context.
  3. Performance. NFS serving out of a zone should not be slower or
 less
  scalable than NFS serving from the global zone.
 
  Starting a project would be nice. But I think there should be close
  involvement with the NFS engineers at Sun. As for getting their
  attention and funding, the best we can do is show enough community
  interest for NFS within zones.
 
  So I'd ask all sysadmins, developers, etc. to respond to this
 thread to
  show support for fixing this.
 

 Octave,
 
 Thanks for the input on the requirements.
 
 I am a NFS engineer for Sun. I don't think we should count on getting
 
 attention
 and funding for Sun's NFS engineers to do this project. All of us are
 
 aware of the
 need, but are focused on delivering other products. I'm not saying
 they 
 will not
 help out, I don't think you could stop them.
 
 Again, I think that this is a golden opportunity to start an
 OpenSolaris 
 project
 in the clear and with full involvement from the community. I'm
 willing to
 provide project leadership and mentoring to external developers. I'm
 pretty
 sure that the other NFS engineers are willing to review requirements,
 specs,
 design, code, etc. But the bulk of that work will fall on the
 community 
 to provide.
 
 I'm not looking to start a project which gets done entirely within
 Sun.
 
 Thanks,
 Tom
 
 
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