If you want further abstraction there are nice management tools for SmartOS, either SDC [1] or Project-FiFo [2] will give you a web UI and a remote CLI to handle most of the tasks so you do not have to worry about vmadm, zonedm, nics, datasets or the like.
[1] https://github.com/joyent/sdc [2] https://project-fifo.net DISCLAIMER: I’m the author of Project-FiFo. > On Mar 1, 2016, at 19:33, John Thurston <[email protected]> wrote: > > We run a few Solaris 10 SPARC servers with about 60 zones. We use mulitple > NICs, IPF, ZFS increments to create off-host copies, and scripts to move > zones between hosts. Looking over SmartOS, I suspect it would meet 80+ > percent of the business need we're currently meeting with Solaris. > > To check it out, I've put SmartOS an X4270 server and am poking at it. The > experience is leaving me feeling a bit like a country bumpkin walking into > the city for the first time. I can sort of find my way around, and tools like > zoneadm and zfs are still there, but it looks like I'm supposed to be working > at a more abstracted layer with vmadm. > > In my old world, I'd plumb one of my physical NICs with ifconfig for shared > use by several zones, create a dataset with zfs and mount it, define a zone > with zonecfg, install and boot it with zoneadm, zlogin to the console to > config it, and then turn it over to the customer who would ssh into it. I > assume I could still do all of this, but I also assume this ain't the way > it's done here. > > Where do I go to learn the right way? > I've been looking at the SmartOS wiki ( https://wiki.smartos.org/x/7IYL and > https://wiki.smartos.org/x/i4IL ) but I seem to be failing at some > fundamental level. For example, I wanted to create a zone on something other > than global's NIC (igb0). So I thought I defined a nic_tag "zone_nic1" using > the MAC of igb1, but all I get from vmadm is > Invalid nic tag "zone_nic1" > > Can anyone take pity on an unwashed Solaris user and point me in the right > direction? > > -- > Do things because you should, not just because you can. > > John Thurston 907-465-8591 > [email protected] > Enterprise Technology Services > Department of Administration > State of Alaska >
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