Can I delegate a zpool to a non-global zone?

I see I can delegate/assign a zfs dataset or a zfs volume to a zone using zonecfg. I want to know if it is supported to delegate an entire zpool. I have done it and it works, but is it supported. I seem to have problems with lucreate when I do this.

I'm not familiar with the lucreate problems you are having. You are most likely to find people that know more about lucreate in the Installation or perhaps General Solaris 10 Discussion forums. I'm not aware of any reason that delegating a zpool is unsupported in Solaris 10. I suspect you will get the definitive answer for that by opening a support call regarding your lucreate problem.
In Solaris 11, it is supported to delegate a zpool using "add dataset" and there are no known bad interactions with beadm, the live upgrade replacement.

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Format disks in a non-global zone

Hi
Can i format a disk inside a non global zone which has been assigned (add device) to this non-global zone.
thanks

In order to allow managing his/her disk to the zone "administrator".
This is what i�ve got when i try to format the disk in the non-global zone:
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c4t600A0B8000179A5000002EFD42AFC76Fd0 <SUN-CSM100_R_FC-0610 cyl 20478 alt 2 hd 64 sec 64> sx2_v2
ssd22 at scsi_vhci0 slave 0
1. c4t600A0B8000179A5000002F0A4355CEE9d0 <SUN-CSM100_R_FC-0610 cyl 20478 alt 2 hd 64 sec 64>
ssd24 at scsi_vhci0 slave 0
Specify disk (enter its number): 1
selecting c4t600A0B8000179A5000002F0A4355CEE9d0
[disk unformatted]
FORMAT MENU:
disk - select a disk
type - select (define) a disk type
partition - select (define) a partition table
current - describe the current disk
format - format and analyze the disk
repair - repair a defective sector
label - write label to the disk
analyze - surface analysis
defect - defect list management
backup - search for backup labels
verify - read and display labels
save - save new disk/partition definitions
inquiry - show vendor, product and revision
volname - set 8-character volume name
!<cmd> - execute <cmd>, then return
quit
format> format
Ready to format. Formatting cannot be interrupted.
Continue? yes
Beginning format. The current time is Thu Nov 10 12:59:50 2005
Inquiry failed
failed
Warning: Unable to get capacity. Cannot check geometry
Warning: error reading backup label.
Warning: error reading backup label.
Warning: error reading backup label.
Warning: error reading backup label.
Warning: error reading backup label.

FilesystemMountPoints for ufs disks mounted to non-global zones

Hello,
I have a SAN ufs disk to be used as a failover storage, mounted to non-global zones (NGZ).
Solaris 10 nodes using Cluster 3.2
I'm looking for the correct value for the property FilesystemMountPoints and the vfstab entry required for a failover disk mounted to a NGZ.
Should the path NOT include the NGZ root path?
From the man page for SUNW.HAStoragePlus, for the property FilesystemMountPoints:
You can specify both the path in a non-global zone and the path in a global zone, in this format:
Non-GlobalZonePath:GlobalZonePath
The global zone path is optional. If you do not specify a global zone path, Sun Cluster assumes that the path in
the non-global zone and in the global zone are the same. If you specify the path as
Non-GlobalZonePath:GlobalZonePath, you must specify Global-ZonePath in the global zone's /etc/vfstab.
The default setting for this property is an empty list.
You can use the SUNW.HAStoragePlus resource type to make a file system available to a non-global zone. To enable
the SUNW.HAStoragePlus resource type to do this, you must create a mount point in the global zone and in the
non-global zone. The SUNW.HAStoragePlus resource type makes the file system available to the non-global zone
by mounting the file system in the global zone. The resource type then performs a loopback mount in the
non-global zone.
Each file system mount point should have an equivalent entry in /etc/vfstab on all cluster nodes and in all
global zones. The SUNW.HAStoragePlus resource type does not check /etc/vfstab in non-global zones.
SUNW.HAStoragePlus resources that specify local file systems can only belong in a failover resource group
with affinity switchovers enabled. These local file systems can therefore be termed failover file systems. You
can specify both local and global file system mounts points at the same time.
Any file system whose mount point is present in the FilesystemMountPoints extension property is assumed to
be local if its /etc/vfstab entry satisfies both of the following conditions:
1. The non-global mount option is specified.
2. The "mount at boot" field for the entry is set to "no."
In my situation, I want to mount the disk to /mysql_data on the NGZ called ftp_zone. So, which is the correct setup?
a. FilesystemMountPoints=/mysql_data:/zones/ftp_zone/root/mysql_data
Global zone vfstab entry /dev/md/ftpabin/dsk/d110 /dev/md/ftpabin/rdsk/d110 /zones/ftp_zone/root/mysql_data ufs 1 no logging
NGZ mount point /mysql_data
OR
b. FilesystemMountPoints=/mysql_data:/mysql_data (can be condensed to simply /mysql_data)
Global zone vfstab entry /dev/md/ftpabin/dsk/d110 /dev/md/ftpabin/rdsk/d110 /mysql_data ufs 1 no logging
NGZ mount point /mysql_data
Should the path NOT include the NGZ root path?
And should the fsck pass # be 1 or 2?
Looking at this example from p. 26 of
http://wikis.sun.com/download/attachments/24543510/820-4690.pdf
This example doesn't mention the entry in vfstab.
Create a resource group that can holds services in nodea zonex and nodeb zoney
nodea# clresourcegroup create -n nodea:zonex,nodeb:zoney test-rg
Make sure the HAStoragePlus resource is registered
nodea# clresourcetype register SUNW.HAStoragePlus
Now add a UFS [or VxFS] fail-over file system: mount /bigspace1 to failover/export/install in NGZ
nodea# clresource create -t SUNW.HAStoragePlus -g test-rg \
-p FilesystemMountPoints=/fail-over/export/install:/bigspace1 \
ufs-hasp-rs
Thank you!

Hi,
/zones/oracle-z is my root directory of the zone.
* add the device to the zone :
root@mpbxapp1 # zonecfg -z oracle-z
zonecfg:oracle-z> add device
zonecfg:oracle-z:device> set match=/dev/global/dsk/d12s0
zonecfg:oracle-z:device> end
zonecfg:oracle-z> add device
zonecfg:oracle-z:device> set match=/dev/global/rdsk/d12s0
zonecfg:oracle-z:device> end
zonecfg:oracle-z> exit
* add FS to NGZ's /etc/vfstab : ( You may omit this step, I don't know why but it works without this step :) )
root@mpbxapp1 # vi /zones/oracle-z/root/etc/vfstab
/dev/global/dsk/d12s0 /dev/global/rdsk/d12s0 /global/oracle ufs 1 no logging
* add FS to global zone's /etc/vfstab :
root@mpbxapp1 # vi /etc/vfstab
/dev/global/dsk/d12s0 /dev/global/rdsk/d12s0 /zonefs/oracle ufs 1 no logging
* set the FilesystemMountPoints property :
root@mpbxapp1 # /usr/cluster/bin/clresource set -p FilesystemMountPoints=/global/oracle:/zonefs/oracle oracle-hastp
Whit this configuration you may ensure that the FS is not directly accessible from master zone. Actually, it's accessible but with a different PATH. For example, for Oracle, from the master zone Oracle can not be started/stopped because the controlfile can not be accessed. :)
Hope this helps,
Murat

LDOMs or Non Global Zones

I am thinking migrating many machines to our yet unused T5-2 boxes. One of the consultants suggested, using LDOMS. However, there will be at least 4 different Oracle DBs running in the boxes. I am not sure which is the best way to go? Also even after reading the documents, I could not figure out whether you can have LDOMS (VM for Sparc) and Non-Global Zones side by side over Solaris 11.2? Also, being a 16 core machine, using LDOM, I would lose 2 core I was told. Views would be helpful for my understanding.
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SC-BBK

Hello
I suggest you to read this doc too, there are plenty of way to do a setup with ldoms, and you can achieve a really good redundancy for net and vdisk.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/vm/ovmsparc-best-practices-2334546.pdf
Primary domain can run sol11.2 and guest sol10 without any problem, but the sol10 release has to be supported on that T5.
You can have in sol11.2 NGZ in solaris 10 too.
It is more than VMWare... into any guest ldom running sol11.2, you can have non global zones, for sol10, sol11.2 and kz-zones. You can assign HW to each domain if you want dynameically, cpu, mem, disks .. all is explained in the admin manual http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E38405_01/html/E38406/index.html
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Eze

Sun cluster 3.20, live upgrade with non-global zones

I have a two node cluster with 4 HA-container resource groups holding 4 non-global zones running Sol 10 8/07 u4 which I would upgrade to sol10 u6 10/8. The root fileystem of the non-global zones is ZFS and on shared SAN disks so that can be failed over.
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The tricky stuff is going to be performing a live upgrade on non-global zones as their root fs is on the shared disk. I have a free internal disk on each of thenodes for ABE environments. But when I run the lucreate command is it going put the ABE of the zones on the internal disk as well or can i specifiy the location ABE for non-global zones. Ideally I want this to be shared disk
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I am not sure whether this document:
http://wikis.sun.com/display/BluePrints/Maintaining+Solaris+with+Live+Upgrade+and+Update+On+Attach
has been on the list of docs you found already.
If you click on the download link, it won't work. But if you use the Tools icon on the upper right hand corner and click on attachements, you'll find the document. Its content is solely based on configurations with ZFS as root and zone root, but should have valuable information for other deployments as well.
Regards
Hartmut

Update packages for newbie in a non-global zone

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I'm new on this forum and i'm a newbie. Recently, I have install OpenSolaris and I have install a non-global zone (big-zone). So, I can install new packages manually in my non-global zone with a terminal but i don't know if it's possible to use the package manager (same tool when i'm log on my global zone in a gnome-session).
I don't know if it's possible to install gnome in a non-global zone because it's more easy to me to use the package manager tool in a graphical mode. It's very long to write a command for each package that i want update.
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Non-Global Zones - how can I tell what the Global Zone is

Hi,
I have a host that I know is a non-global zone (ngz). I can ssh to the ngz as root or a non-privileged user.
But once there how do I know what the host name for the global zone is?
I could probably run a script from all global zones to report all running zones and so I'd know that way but I have a specific need to know from inside the ngz.
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Brian

bdunbar wrote:
That's a built-in security feature; and I know of no way to circumvent this mechanism.
I had some hope that there was a way to 'see' at least the global-zone information from the zone. From the shell the 'zone' commands are available ..
:# zoneadm list -cv
ID NAME STATUS PATH
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Pkgmap files missing in global zone, can't build non-global zone

My solaris 10 server is missing the pkgmap files for the packages. As a result, I can't build a non-global zone. Is there a way to recreate the pkgmap files?
The OS on the Solaris 10 server was installed via jumpstart (initial install). However, the Jumpstart process used a Solaris 9 boot server which seems to have caused the missing pkgmap problem.
Does anyone know of any other problems which would result from a version mismatch between a boot and installation server during the jumpstart process?

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Running glib-gettextize... Ignore non-fatal messages.
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progtest.m4
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PKGBUILD: line 33: ./configure: No such file or directory
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How can 2 non-global zones share a singe ethernet?

This may be a very basic question. I am new the this board and trying to learn more about the Solaris Zone.
I am trying to find out whether sharing an ethernet card between two non-global zones is possible.
Where can I get additional infor on this topic?
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I just found the answer to my question. Thanks, Can you post a link to where you found the answer?
Birdman >>I'm not exactly sure what he found, but you might try this link, to the zones documentation:
http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/817-1592/6mhahuos1?a=view#z.admin.ov-12
The answer to the question is "yes" you can do this, and in fact it is somewhat trivial. We've long had a feature in Solaris called "logical network interfaces". This allows multiple logical interfaces to be defined atop a single physical one. Zones uses this feature and creates logical interfaces atop a single virtual interface. You can even have multiple network interfaces assigned to the same zone, without any problem.
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What is the maximum number of datasets you can use in a non-global zone.

I have been trying to assign 8 datasets to a non-global zone. Whilst I can create as many as I like using the zonecfg command, when I boot the zone only the first 7 ever get mounted. Running zfs list in the zone also only displays the first 7 datasets.
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Can I upgrade patches to non-global zones separate from a global zone?

Normally, one would assume that you want to keep global and non-global zones in sync. However, at the software company I work for we could potentially want to test on different patch levels of Solaris10 simultaneously. I can't bring down the global zone and change it's patch set everytime I would need this. My only option would be to have separate hardware and separate global zone for each patch set which kinda defeats the purpose IMHO.
Anybody out there know if this is possible?

Whole root zones allow you to have different levels of an application installed in different zones.
But they don't really provide a good mechanism for testing different patch levels of solaris itself.
Since theres really only one copy of solaris running, its just providing different views of itself.
If you want to actually test solaris patch levels you need to do "real" virtualisation rather than para virtualisation provided by zones.
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Can I import one non-global zone from one machine to another?

If create a non-global zone on one disk on machine A, is it possible to make a copy of that disk, and import the non-global zone to machine B? If yes, how to import the non-global zone?
Thanks!

It should be possible if your machines are installed at the same way, because you need the same environment (patches, packages,..).
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Installing multiple MySQLs in Non-Global Zones

Hi all,
We have db01 and db02 physical servers with latest Solaris and Sun Cluster software installed. Each one has the following zones:
db01z001 - db02z001
db01z002 - db02z002
db01z003 - db02z003
db01z004 - db02z004
db01zXXX - db02zXXX
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root@db01:~$ zpool status zones
pool: zones
state: ONLINE
scrub: none requested
config:
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zones ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror ONLINE 0 0 0
c2t0d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c2t1d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
We want to install and configure a different MySQL application and data service in every pair of non-global zones.
We want to use two SAN logical devices for mysql data:
d3 db02:/dev/rdsk/c4t600508B4000906990001100000E70000d0
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d7 db02:/dev/rdsk/c4t600508B40009069900011000008E0000d0
d7 db01:/dev/rdsk/c4t600508B40009069900011000008E0000d0
Is there any way to use this configuration for N pairs or we can only use 2?
Thanks,
George

Hi George,
You might get away creating global monunts, create directories below the mount pint. Now comes the trick, you create HAStoragePlus resources with filesystem_mountpoints=/global_mountmount/mysql1, you must set AffinityOn to false.
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I must admit, that I never tried this myself, but it should work. Of cause you will get a performance penalty if you create tables over the wire. Creating tables means creating small files. It is wortha a
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Kind Regards
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QFS in non global zones

Hi,
We are planning to configure QFS from a T3-2 to at least 2 non global zones. At the moment the data is shared over NFS but it has been decided to install and configure QFS for speed and resilience.
Reading numerous documents I am unable to find anything (including in the admin manual) which details how to present the QFS filesystem to the non global zone, there is plenty of mention regarding Sun Cluster and configuring qfs on samfs and setting the type of the filesystem in the zone to samfs but I dont know if we have purchased samfs and qfs but I suspect we only have qfs.
Basically all I planned to do was present the storage from the EMC to both servers, install and configure qfs then add to the non global zone configuration and do some testing to prove resilience but after doing investigation it may not be as simple as that.
If anyone has any experience of configuring a standalone qfs filesystem in a zone a helpful hint would be appreciated.
Thanks.

Hi!
For example: http://wikis.sun.com/display/SAMQFSDocs/New+Features
You can configure QFS at global zone and then delegate some QFS-FS to local-zones over lofs.
Regards.

Add tape device to non-global zone

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I have a SCSI attached Ultrium tape device attached and configured against the global zone.
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I need to be able to use this tape device from the non-global zones.
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zonecfg -z <zone name>
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set match=/dev/rmt/0
end
verify
commit
exit
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zoneadm -z <zone name> reboot
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BR0278E Command output of 'LANG=C cd /oracle/<SID>/sapbackup && /usr/sap/<SID>/SYS/exe/run/brtools -f detach LANG=C cpio -iuvB .tape
sh: /dev/rmt/0mn: cannot open
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BR0279E Return code from 'LANG=C cd /oracle/<SID>/sapbackup && /usr/sap/<SID>/SYS/exe/run/brtools -f detach LANG=C cpio -iuvB .tape.
BR0359E Restore of /oracle/<SID>/sapbackup/.tape.hdr0 from /dev/rmt/0mn failed due to previous errors
Have I created the device incorrectly, or does anyone have any ideas what could be the reason the write fails?
Any help appreciated.
Edited by: user11329299 on 04-Apr-2012 01:09

Hi,
Just to bring you up to speed, I have now fixed the issue.
The resolution was all within the iniSID.sap file that the backup is using. I have changed a number of parameters within this file:
1.     tape_copy_cmd = dd (was cpio)
2.     rewind = "mt     -f $ rew; sleep 30" (was " mt -f $ rew")
3.     rewind_offline = "mt -f $ offline; sleep 30" (was "mt -f $ offline")
4.     tape_pos_cmd = "mt -f $ fsf $: sleep 30" (was "mt -f $ fsf $")
5.     tape_size = 500G (was 18000M)
After making those changes, the backup started from within DB13. I believe that the main culprit was the tape_copy_cmd, but the others were changed to allow the tape drive time to become online again after any query.

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