System Administration Guide: Virtualization Using the Solaris Operating System
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Preface

Solaris Virtualization Product Overview

Part I Resource Management

1.  Introduction to Solaris Resource Management

2.  Projects and Tasks (Overview)

3.  Administering Projects and Tasks

4.  Extended Accounting (Overview)

5.  Administering Extended Accounting (Tasks)

6.  Resource Controls (Overview)

7.  Administering Resource Controls (Tasks)

8.  Fair Share Scheduler (Overview)

9.  Administering the Fair Share Scheduler (Tasks)

10.  Physical Memory Control Using the Resource Capping Daemon (Overview)

11.  Administering the Resource Capping Daemon (Tasks)

12.  Resource Pools (Overview)

13.  Creating and Administering Resource Pools (Tasks)

14.  Resource Management Configuration Example

15.  Resource Control Functionality in the Solaris Management Console

Part II Zones

16.  Introduction to Solaris Zones

17.  Non-Global Zone Configuration (Overview)

18.  Planning and Configuring Non-Global Zones (Tasks)

19.  About Installing, Halting, Cloning, and Uninstalling Non-Global Zones (Overview)

20.  Installing, Booting, Halting, Uninstalling, and Cloning Non-Global Zones (Tasks)

21.  Non-Global Zone Login (Overview)

22.  Logging In to Non-Global Zones (Tasks)

23.  Moving and Migrating Non-Global Zones (Tasks)

24.  About Packages and Patches on a Solaris System With Zones Installed (Overview)

25.  Adding and Removing Packages and Patches on a Solaris System With Zones Installed (Tasks)

26.  Solaris Zones Administration (Overview)

27.  Administering Solaris Zones (Tasks)

28.  Troubleshooting Miscellaneous Solaris Zones Problems

Part III Branded Zones

29.  About Branded Zones and the Linux Branded Zone

30.  Planning the lx Branded Zone Configuration (Overview)

31.  Configuring the lx Branded Zone (Tasks)

Planning and Configuring an lx Branded Zone (Task Map)

How to Configure the lx Branded Zone

How to Configure, Verify, and Commit the lx Branded Zone

How to Display the Configuration of a Branded Zone

Modifying, Reverting, or Removing Zone Configurations

32.  About Installing, Booting, Halting, Cloning, and Uninstalling lx Branded Zones (Overview)

33.  Installing, Booting, Halting, Uninstalling and Cloning lx Branded Zones (Tasks)

34.  Logging In to lx Branded Zones (Tasks)

35.  Moving and Migrating lx Branded Zones (Tasks)

36.  Administering and Running Applications in lx Branded Zones (Tasks)

Part IV Sun xVM

37.  Sun xVM Hypervisor System Requirements

38.  Booting and Running the Sun xVM Hypervisor

39.  Xvnc

40.  Using virt-install to Install a Domain

41.  xVM System Administration

42.  Troubleshooting Miscellaneous Sun xVM Problems

Glossary

Index

Planning and Configuring an lx Branded Zone (Task Map)

Before you set up your system to use zones, you must first collect information and make decisions about how to configure the zones. The following task map summarizes how to plan and configure an lx zone.

Task

Description

For Instructions

Plan your zone strategy.

  • Determine which applications you want to run in zones.

  • Assess the availability of disk space to hold the files in the zone.

  • If you are also using resource management features, determine how to align the zone with the resource management boundaries.

  • If you are using resource pools, configure the pools if necessary.

See System and Space Requirements and Resource Pools Used in Zones.

Determine the name and the path for the zone.

Decide what to call the zone based on the naming conventions. A path on a Zetabyte File System (ZFS) is recommended. When the source zonepath and the target zonepath both reside on ZFS and are in the same pool, the zoneadm clone command automatically uses ZFS to clone the zone.

See Resource and Property Types and Solaris ZFS Administration Guide.

Obtain or configure IP addresses for the zone.

Depending on your configuration, you must obtain at least one IP address for each non-global zone that you want to have network access.

See Determine the Zone Host Name and Obtain the Network Address and System Administration Guide: IP Services.

Determine if you want to mount file systems in the zone.

Review your application requirements.

See File Systems Mounted in Zones for more information.

Determine which network interfaces should be made available in the zone.

Review your application requirements.

See Shared-IP Network Interfaces for more information.

Determine whether you must alter the default set of non-global zone permissions.

Check the set of privileges: default, privileges that can be added and removed, and privileges that cannot be used at this time.

See Resource and Property Types and Privileges in a Non-Global Zone.

Configure the zone.

Use zonecfg to create a configuration for the zone.

See How to Configure, Verify, and Commit the lx Branded Zone.

Verify and commit the configured zone.

Determine whether the resources and properties specified are valid on a hypothetical system.

See How to Configure, Verify, and Commit the lx Branded Zone.
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