If zones are detached, they are ignored while patching. So if symantec implemeted the detach attach approach the patching situation will get worse over time, even if you created 2 zones. on w nodes. Forget one time to attach a zone manually before patching, and you may get into trouble. If you are really out of luck you will notice the problems months after the patching.
Sun Cluster 3.2 has a different approach to solve this issue. It treats zones as virtual nodes and the will be up and running all the time. You switch the application between the zones. Another advantage here is that nearly all of the Sun cluster agents are supported to run in zones. Cheers Detlef Anderson, Ryan C (US SSA) wrote: > You do not need to create two separate copies of zones. You can > accomplish zone failover between nodes on SAN-attached disk with the > Zone VCS agent on VCS 4.1 and 5.0. You can import non-global zones onto > all VCS nodes that have an /etc/zones/index entry as well as the same > /etc/zones/<zonename>.xml as eachother. Symantec told me they will be > adding a proper detach/attach into 5.x. When they first made the VCS > Zone agent, there was no such functionality in Solaris, but it has been > now since Solaris 10 update 3. You can contact me off-list if you would > like more specifics. > > RCA > -- > UNIX Administrator, BAE Systems Land & Armaments > desk 763-572-6684 mobile 612-419-9362 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sam Yangsao > Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 9:15 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [zones-discuss] VCS failover of non-global zones > betweensystems. > > So basically today it sounds like we'll still need to build 2 seperate > zones on each physical server for failover purposes. Especially in > patching situations where I see this is the only workaround, unless > someone has devised a way to only have one zone built and failed over > via a SAN volume on each physical node and patching would not be an > issue. > > I can't seem to find anything in the VCS 5.0 documentation that includes > the attach/detach commands only some discussions that say this may be > included some time in the near future. I'm assuming this is the same > with SUN cluster 3. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zones-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > zones-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ***************************************************************************** Detlef Ulherr Project Engineer Tel: (++49 6103) 752-248 Client Solutions Fax: (++49 6103) 752-167 Sun Microsystems GmbH Amperestraße 6 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 63225 Langen http://www.sun.de/ ***************************************************************************** Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, D-85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB 161028 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Wolfgang Engels, Dr. Roland Boemer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering ***************************************************************************** _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list [email protected]
