Re: [zones-discuss] Why is mount disabled for branded zones

2007-05-08 Thread Ellard Roush
Hi Enda, This provides a good opportunity to clear up some misinformation. The BrandZ "lx" zone type does not use standard patch/package commands. There will be BrandZ zone types that do use standard patch/package commands. The Cluster group is developing now a "cluster" BrandZ zone type that u

[zones-discuss] Why is mount disabled for branded zones

2007-05-10 Thread Ellard Roush
inaries as oppose to kernel. If so how will they be patched? ie will they have differenet package versions that those in global zone? regards Enda Ellard Roush wrote: Hi Enda, This provides a good opportunity to clear up some misinformation. The BrandZ "lx" zone type does not use

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

2007-06-06 Thread Ellard Roush
Hi James, PSARC 2007/304 is open. Anything in that case is available for the public. The Solaris Cluster product line is not Open Source at this time. The cluster management knows of the direction that Sun Microsystems is going with respect to open source and has a plan. Nothing has been publicl

Re: [zones-discuss] clustering Solaris 10 zones????

2007-07-24 Thread Ellard Roush
Hi Jason, The Solaris Cluster product (also called Sun Cluster) is an extension of the Solaris Operating System. There is only one operating system on a machine, and by extension there is only one Solaris Cluster set of software running on a machine regardless as to the number of Zones on that mac

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

2007-08-07 Thread Ellard Roush
Hi, There is so much discussion in these areas that it would be most undesirable to combine these 3 different areas. Recommend that they be kept distinct. However, I do agree that there are topics that would appeal to all 3 areas. In such cases recommend that people send their comments to the 3

Re: [zones-discuss] The quick & dirty guide to zones on iSCSI LUNs

2008-04-01 Thread Ellard Roush
Hi James, Thanks for explaining about how the routing situation changes dynamically. However, we have been aware of that for a long time. Sun Cluster (SC) is a High Availability product. We have customers that want recovery to occur in less than 2 seconds. While we have not achieved that goal, we

Re: [zones-discuss] The quick & dirty guide to zones on iSCSI LUNs

2008-04-02 Thread Ellard Roush
found another recovery method for this problem. We do not just retry the connection. We destroy all network data structures (socket) This clears the bad state. retries then eventually succeed. Regards, Ellard James Carlson wrote: > Ellard Roush writes: >> Thanks for explaining abou

Re: [zones-discuss] The quick & dirty guide to zones on iSCSI LUNs

2008-04-02 Thread Ellard Roush
Hi James, James Carlson wrote: > Ellard Roush writes: >> If we make the code sleep long enough for Solaris routing to >> complete initialization, then after a failed attempt >> to connect, then retries work whenever the route becomes >> available. The problem is tha

Re: [zones-discuss] The quick & dirty guide to zones on iSCSI LUNs

2008-04-03 Thread Ellard Roush
Hi James, James Carlson wrote: > Ellard Roush writes: >> James Carlson wrote: >>> That point in time is as soon as your application can start. It need >>> not have any dependencies at all. >>> >> Here is the other point that needs to be clarified. >

[zones-discuss] Patches vs Updates - Zone Features

2008-04-17 Thread Ellard Roush
Hi, Solaris 10 update 4 introduced the BrandZ feature set. Solaris 10 update 5 will introduce more zone features. Today Sun Cluster requires the the Solaris 10 release be at least up to the Solaris 10 update 3 level. We are proposing to ship a new feature in Sun Cluster that will use the BrandZ f

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone management

2008-07-24 Thread Ellard Roush
than "native", or at least for a Brand that is "almost" native. Regards, Ellard Roush Nathan Dietsch wrote: > Hello All, > > I am looking to the OpenSolaris community for input on your respective > experiences with management tools for zones. > > I am

Re: [zones-discuss] Questions regarding Solaris containers

2008-10-27 Thread Ellard Roush
Hi, The Sun Cluster Express release has already shipped a new feature called Zone Clusters. This is a Virtual Cluster where the virtual node is a zone. A major reason for developing this feature was to provide the ability to run Oracle RAC in zones. Oracle RAC requires a cluster environment, in o

Re: [zones-discuss] Patching clustered zones

2009-01-22 Thread Ellard Roush
e that there is an important upgrade scenario, that Sun Cluster does not support, please let me know. I am the Technical Lead for the infrastructure area, which includes both Zone Clusters and upgrade technology. Regards, Ellard Roush On 01/22/09 11:40, Geoff Lane wrote: > We are in the process of

[zones-discuss] [Fwd: df -h in zone cluster]

2009-04-30 Thread Ellard Roush
Hi, The question raised by Sunil seems to be a zones question. Does anyone have an explanation or is this a bug ? Regards, Ellard Original Message Subject: df -h in zone cluster Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:28:38 -0400 From: Sunil Sohani To: sunclus...@sun.com Hi, IHAC running

[zones-discuss] [Fwd: RAC on Zone Clusters BluePrint]

2009-05-13 Thread Ellard Roush
FromEllard Subject RAC on Zone Clusters BluePrint Recently, there were a number of queries for a current document on how to run RAC in non-global zones. We have just published this new document. Gia-Khanh and I published a small book in the BluePrint series that explains the followi

Re: [zones-discuss] S10 brand spec.

2009-05-13 Thread Ellard Roush
Hi Jerry, This document provides a lot of useful information. The section "solaris10 Brand: What's Not Emulated" you repeat some old information that is no longer correct. "One point to note is that TX will continue to be incompatible with branded zones." That statement probably dates to th

Re: [zones-discuss] networking

2010-02-17 Thread Ellard Roush
Hi, The clprivnet0 interface is something provided by Solaris Cluster. The clprivnet software is a kind of highly available trunking driver that communicates across all of the private networks that connect the machines of the cluster. This set of networks is often called the private interconnect.