Cluster in Solaris 10 Zones

one question about clusters in Zones:
We are testing the zones feature to heat IBM Virtual partition because of one case. We wonder wheather
Sun Clusters is made between zones in Solaris 10.
From our customers, IBM show that they can do cluster between virtual partition (NO LPAR) in p5_p570.
So this question is very important for us to beat IBM.
Thanks,
and looking forward kind response.
PS: we have to call 800 on-line call, but no one of 800 call can give us confirmed information for this;-((

I'm not 100% positive but pretty sure this isn't supported yet. Relling1 can probably give a more specific answer.

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Cluster Patch on Solaris Zones

Hi all,
Lately, there is a requirement for us to perform a cluster patch on some of
our Solaris Zone VMs. Under such circumstances, is there a need to patch
the global zone also ? What are the precautionary measures to take in case
things break and system goes into panic mode ?
Pls provide all necessary steps and procedures. Thanks a lot.
Regards,
LP

There are many available patch clusters, however you would normally use the 'Recommended Patch Cluster" or the latest dated cluster, for example "10/08 Patch Bundle". Note that the latest bundles have been split into multiple parts due to the size increase from older bundles.
Please refer to the [download instructions|http://sunsolve.sun.com/html/cluster_bundle.html] and the readme for the relevant cluster that you download. Note that a password is required to apply that patch clusters and that the password can be found in the readme.
If you run into any problems with the clusters, please contact [email protected] .

Setup Cluster using Solaris Container data service

We have a two-node cluster that we would like to use to create either a zone cluster or use the Solaris Container data service that would create a scalable (or multiple master) data service of two zones, one on each node. We have an app running in the zone, CiscoWorks, that has a local database of jobs that are scheduled to run to configure Cisco switches. I was curious how we setup the storage. If each zone is running on local disks, how do the zones stay in sync and the database updated with job information? Would I setup a device group of the disks where the zones will reside on each node? Can I use SAN as the local disk so the zones can be replicated to a Disaster Recovery location?
Thanks for any help,
Chuck

Chuck,
Sadly, I think I'm going to make your implementation decisions a lot more complicated because there are three ways you can use zones within Solaris Cluster.
1. Create a failover zone using the HA Solaris Container Data Service. Here the zone root moves between the cluster nodes as the zone fails over.
2. Create static zones between with resource groups can migrate. Each zone root is local the the physical node. However, the configuration of the zones can be subtly different.
3. Create a virtual cluster using static zones within which resource groups can migrate. Each zone root is local the the physical node. However, the configuration of the zones are forced to be the same.
Note also, that a ZFS zpool can only be mounted on one node or zone at anyone time, although it can be mounted read/write in one zone and read-only in other zones on the same node (IIRC).
I would be inclined to put your database into an HA configuration, i.e. one that runs on one node at any one time. I would then constrain that in a zone cluster that is bound to a project with restricted resources, i.e. CPUs and memory. Any other tiers of the application, could then be placed either in the global zone (main cluster) or placed in another zone cluster and equally constrained.
I don't know if that's any help. I can recommend a good book on the subject <shameless plug "Oracle Solaris Cluster Essentials"/>. The example chapters should be of help.
Regards,
Tim
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Zfs core dumps in Solaris Zones after patchcluster installation

Hi
I've installed the recommended patch cluster for Solaris 10 (SPARC) on my T2000 Server.
Now after the reboot all the Solaris Zones (got about 10 of them) instantly do zfs core dumps when their booted.
Some Output:
Dec 15 15:34:43 XXXXX genunix: NOTICE: core_log: zfs[1711] core dumped: /var/core/core_XXXXXX_zfs_0_0_1292423682_1711
bash-3.00# svcs
STATE STIME FMRI
online 13:58:50 svc:/system/svc/restarter:default
online 13:58:51 svc:/system/filesystem/root:default
online 13:58:51 svc:/network/loopback:default
online 13:58:53 svc:/network/pfil:default
online 13:58:54 svc:/system/installupdates:default
online 13:58:55 svc:/system/boot-archive:default
online 13:58:56 svc:/network/physical:default
online 13:58:57 svc:/system/filesystem/usr:default
online 13:58:57 svc:/system/identity:node
online 13:58:58 svc:/system/device/local:default
online 13:58:58 svc:/system/keymap:default
online 13:58:58 svc:/milestone/devices:default
online 13:58:58 svc:/system/filesystem/minimal:default
online 13:58:58 svc:/system/rmtmpfiles:default
online 13:58:58 svc:/system/cryptosvc:default
online 13:58:59 svc:/system/identity:domain
online 13:58:59 svc:/system/name-service-cache:default
online 13:58:59 svc:/system/coreadm:default
online 13:58:59 svc:/network/ipsec/ipsecalgs:default
online 13:58:59 svc:/application/print/ppd-cache-update:default
online 13:58:59 svc:/network/ipsec/policy:default
online 13:59:00 svc:/milestone/network:default
online 13:59:00 svc:/network/initial:default
online 13:59:00 svc:/system/manifest-import:default
online 13:59:00 svc:/network/service:default
online 13:59:00 svc:/milestone/single-user:default
online 13:59:00 svc:/network/dns/client:default
online 13:59:00 svc:/network/routing-setup:default
online 13:59:00 svc:/milestone/name-services:default
online 13:59:03 svc:/milestone/sysconfig:default
online 13:59:03 svc:/system/utmp:default
online 13:59:03 svc:/system/console-login:default
offline 13:58:51 svc:/system/sysidtool:net
offline 13:58:51 svc:/network/rpc/bind:default
offline 13:58:51 svc:/system/sysidtool:system
offline 13:58:52 svc:/network/nfs/status:default
offline 13:58:52 svc:/network/nfs/nlockmgr:default
offline 13:58:52 svc:/network/nfs/cbd:default
offline 13:58:52 svc:/network/nfs/mapid:default
offline 13:58:52 svc:/network/inetd:default
offline 13:58:52 svc:/network/nfs/client:default
offline 13:58:52 svc:/system/filesystem/autofs:default
offline 13:58:53 svc:/system/system-log:default
offline 13:58:53 svc:/network/smtp:sendmail
offline 13:58:53 svc:/system/cron:default
offline 13:58:53 svc:/milestone/multi-user:default
offline 13:58:54 svc:/application/management/snmpdx:default
offline 13:58:54 svc:/application/management/dmi:default
offline 13:58:54 svc:/application/management/seaport:default
offline 13:58:54 svc:/network/ssh:default
offline 13:58:54 svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default
offline 13:58:54 svc:/application/font/fc-cache:default
offline 13:58:55 svc:/application/management/sma:default
offline 13:58:58 svc:/system/sac:default
offline 13:59:00 svc:/network/shares/group:default
offline 13:59:00 svc:/system/boot-archive-update:default
maintenance 15:34:43 svc:/system/filesystem/local:default
uninitialized 13:58:52 svc:/network/rpc/gss:default
uninitialized 13:58:54 svc:/application/font/stfsloader:default
uninitialized 13:58:55 svc:/network/rpc/rstat:default
uninitialized 13:58:55 svc:/application/print/rfc1179:default
uninitialized 13:58:55 svc:/application/x11/xfs:default
uninitialized 13:58:55 svc:/network/finger:default
uninitialized 13:58:55 svc:/network/ftp:default
uninitialized 13:58:56 svc:/network/login:rlogin
uninitialized 13:58:56 svc:/network/nfs/rquota:default
uninitialized 13:58:56 svc:/network/rpc/rusers:default
uninitialized 13:58:56 svc:/network/rpc/smserver:default
uninitialized 13:58:57 svc:/network/security/ktkt_warn:default
uninitialized 13:58:57 svc:/network/shell:default
uninitialized 13:58:57 svc:/network/telnet:default
uninitialized 13:58:58 svc:/network/rpc-100235_1/rpc_ticotsord:default
uninitialized 13:58:58 svc:/network/rpc/cde-calendar-manager:default
uninitialized 13:58:59 svc:/network/rpc/cde-ttdbserver:tcp
bash-3.00# svcs -x
svc:/system/filesystem/local:default (local file system mounts)
State: maintenance since Wed Dec 15 15:34:43 2010
Reason: Start method exited with $SMF_EXIT_ERR_FATAL.
See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-KS
See: /var/svc/log/system-filesystem-local:default.log
Impact: 24 dependent services are not running. (Use -v for list.)
svc:/network/rpc/gss:default (Generic Security Service)
State: uninitialized since Wed Dec 15 13:58:52 2010
Reason: Restarter svc:/network/inetd:default is not running.
See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-5H
See: gssd(1M)
Impact: 11 dependent services are not running. (Use -v for list.)
svc:/network/rpc/rstat:default (kernel statistics server)
State: uninitialized since Wed Dec 15 13:58:55 2010
Reason: Restarter svc:/network/inetd:default is not running.
See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-5H
See: rpc.rstatd(1M)
See: rstatd(1M)
Impact: 1 dependent service is not running. (Use -v for list.)
bash-3.00# cat /var/svc/log/system-filesystem-local:default.log
[ Jul 10 03:41:35 Enabled. ]
[ Jul 10 03:43:45 Rereading configuration. ]
[ Jul 10 03:44:17 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Jul 10 03:44:18 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Jul 10 12:44:36 Enabled. ]
[ Jul 10 12:44:45 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Jul 10 12:44:45 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Jul 10 12:45:03 Enabled. ]
[ Jul 10 12:45:09 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Jul 10 12:45:09 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Jul 10 13:54:39 Enabled. ]
[ Jul 10 13:54:46 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Jul 10 13:54:46 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Jul 18 12:34:19 Enabled. ]
[ Jul 18 12:34:27 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Jul 18 12:34:27 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Jul 18 17:29:08 Enabled. ]
[ Jul 18 17:29:15 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Jul 18 17:29:15 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Jul 19 11:13:34 Enabled. ]
[ Jul 19 11:13:42 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Jul 19 11:13:42 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Jul 19 11:32:23 Enabled. ]
[ Jul 19 11:32:30 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Jul 19 11:32:31 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Jul 19 11:57:06 Enabled. ]
[ Jul 19 11:57:13 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Jul 19 11:57:13 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Jul 19 12:40:05 Enabled. ]
[ Jul 19 12:40:12 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Jul 19 12:40:12 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Jul 20 15:51:46 Enabled. ]
[ Jul 20 15:51:54 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Jul 20 15:51:54 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Jul 24 11:42:17 Enabled. ]
[ Jul 24 11:42:25 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Jul 24 11:42:25 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Jul 27 12:05:06 Stopping because service disabled. ]
[ Jul 27 12:05:07 Executing stop method (null) ]
[ Jul 27 12:13:10 Enabled. ]
[ Jul 27 12:13:17 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Jul 27 12:13:17 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Jul 27 13:10:26 Stopping because service disabled. ]
[ Jul 27 13:10:26 Executing stop method (null) ]
[ Jul 27 13:18:19 Enabled. ]
[ Jul 27 13:18:26 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Jul 27 13:18:26 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Jul 31 10:12:31 Enabled. ]
[ Jul 31 10:12:38 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Jul 31 10:12:39 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Aug 7 10:08:52 Stopping because service disabled. ]
[ Aug 7 10:08:52 Executing stop method (null) ]
[ Aug 7 10:34:50 Enabled. ]
[ Aug 7 10:34:57 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Aug 7 10:34:58 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Aug 9 09:14:50 Stopping because service disabled. ]
[ Aug 9 09:14:50 Executing stop method (null) ]
[ Aug 9 09:55:03 Enabled. ]
[ Aug 9 09:55:10 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Aug 9 09:55:11 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Aug 16 10:46:43 Enabled. ]
[ Aug 16 10:46:50 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Aug 16 10:46:50 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Aug 16 12:06:56 Enabled. ]
[ Aug 16 12:07:02 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Aug 16 12:07:02 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Aug 16 13:45:10 Enabled. ]
[ Aug 16 13:45:16 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Aug 16 13:45:16 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Aug 16 14:36:59 Enabled. ]
[ Aug 16 14:37:07 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Aug 16 14:37:07 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Aug 16 15:00:40 Enabled. ]
[ Aug 16 15:00:47 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Aug 16 15:00:47 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Aug 22 16:00:13 Enabled. ]
[ Aug 22 16:00:21 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Aug 22 16:00:21 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Aug 23 09:49:04 Enabled. ]
[ Aug 23 09:49:10 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Aug 23 09:49:11 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Aug 23 09:49:23 Stopping because service disabled. ]
[ Aug 23 09:49:23 Executing stop method (null) ]
[ Aug 23 10:04:13 Enabled. ]
[ Aug 23 10:04:20 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Aug 23 10:04:20 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Aug 23 10:06:57 Enabled. ]
[ Aug 23 10:07:04 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Aug 23 10:07:05 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Oct 23 08:43:05 Enabled. ]
[ Oct 23 08:43:14 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Oct 23 08:43:14 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Nov 21 14:51:50 Enabled. ]
[ Nov 21 14:51:58 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Nov 21 14:51:59 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Nov 29 15:33:19 Enabled. ]
[ Nov 29 15:33:26 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Nov 29 15:33:27 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Dec 18 13:37:35 Enabled. ]
[ Dec 18 13:37:42 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Dec 18 13:37:42 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Dec 19 08:48:07 Enabled. ]
[ Dec 19 08:48:14 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Dec 19 08:48:14 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Dec 19 08:56:07 Enabled. ]
[ Dec 19 08:56:14 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Dec 19 08:56:14 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Dec 19 08:57:41 Enabled. ]
[ Dec 19 08:57:48 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Dec 19 08:57:48 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Feb 1 10:39:48 Enabled. ]
[ Feb 1 10:39:55 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Feb 1 10:39:56 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Feb 8 11:12:50 Enabled. ]
[ Feb 8 11:12:57 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Feb 8 11:12:57 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Jun 6 10:08:34 Enabled. ]
[ Jun 6 10:08:44 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Jun 6 10:08:46 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Aug 8 09:45:48 Enabled. ]
[ Aug 8 09:46:35 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Aug 8 09:46:36 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Aug 14 17:53:59 Enabled. ]
[ Aug 14 17:54:06 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Aug 14 17:54:06 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Aug 14 17:55:20 Enabled. ]
[ Aug 14 17:55:27 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Aug 14 17:55:27 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Aug 18 15:19:17 Enabled. ]
[ Aug 18 15:19:24 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Aug 18 15:19:24 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Aug 29 12:56:48 Enabled. ]
[ Aug 29 12:56:55 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Aug 29 12:56:55 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Oct 13 11:59:43 Enabled. ]
[ Oct 13 11:59:50 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Oct 13 11:59:51 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Feb 26 16:47:00 Enabled. ]
[ Feb 26 16:47:07 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Feb 26 16:47:07 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Apr 14 15:54:17 Enabled. ]
[ Apr 14 15:54:24 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Apr 14 15:54:25 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Aug 28 08:49:58 Stopping because service disabled. ]
[ Aug 28 08:49:58 Executing stop method (null) ]
[ Aug 28 08:52:54 Enabled. ]
[ Aug 28 08:53:01 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
bootadm: this operation is not supported on sparc
[ Aug 28 08:53:01 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Aug 28 09:08:20 Stopping because service disabled. ]
[ Aug 28 09:08:20 Executing stop method (null) ]
[ Sep 1 16:05:36 Enabled. ]
[ Sep 1 16:06:05 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
[ Sep 1 16:06:05 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Sep 1 19:29:19 Enabled. ]
[ Sep 1 19:29:27 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
[ Sep 1 19:29:27 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Sep 1 23:04:00 Enabled. ]
[ Sep 1 23:04:08 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
[ Sep 1 23:04:08 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Sep 2 00:23:41 Stopping because service disabled. ]
[ Sep 2 00:23:42 Executing stop method (null) ]
[ Sep 2 00:46:46 Enabled. ]
[ Sep 2 00:46:53 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
[ Sep 2 00:46:54 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Sep 26 12:04:34 Enabled. ]
[ Sep 26 12:04:41 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
[ Sep 26 12:04:42 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Oct 20 13:05:09 Stopping because service disabled. ]
[ Oct 20 13:05:10 Executing stop method (null) ]
[ Oct 20 13:24:01 Enabled. ]
[ Oct 20 13:24:08 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
[ Oct 20 13:24:09 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Oct 21 16:30:59 Enabled. ]
[ Oct 21 16:31:09 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
[ Oct 21 16:31:09 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Oct 21 16:32:42 Stopping because service disabled. ]
[ Oct 21 16:32:42 Executing stop method (null) ]
[ Oct 21 16:42:05 Enabled. ]
[ Oct 21 16:42:15 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
[ Oct 21 16:42:15 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Oct 21 17:27:37 Enabled. ]
[ Oct 21 17:27:47 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
[ Oct 21 17:27:47 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Oct 22 11:08:34 Enabled. ]
[ Oct 22 11:08:43 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
[ Oct 22 11:08:43 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Dec 9 09:17:33 Stopping because service disabled. ]
[ Dec 9 09:17:33 Executing stop method (null) ]
[ Dec 10 11:47:14 Enabled. ]
[ Dec 10 11:47:24 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
[ Dec 10 11:47:25 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Dec 15 10:52:25 Stopping because service disabled. ]
[ Dec 15 10:52:25 Executing stop method (null) ]
[ Dec 15 12:42:16 Enabled. ]
[ Dec 15 12:42:26 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
Abort - core dumped
WARNING: /usr/sbin/zfs mount -a failed: exit status 134
[ Dec 15 12:42:28 Method "start" exited with status 95 ]
[ Dec 15 13:13:19 Enabled. ]
[ Dec 15 13:13:28 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
Abort - core dumped
WARNING: /usr/sbin/zfs mount -a failed: exit status 134
[ Dec 15 13:13:30 Method "start" exited with status 95 ]
[ Dec 15 13:58:51 Enabled. ]
[ Dec 15 13:59:00 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
Abort - core dumped
WARNING: /usr/sbin/zfs mount -a failed: exit status 134
[ Dec 15 13:59:03 Method "start" exited with status 95 ]
[ Dec 15 15:34:41 Leaving maintenance because clear requested. ]
[ Dec 15 15:34:41 Enabled. ]
[ Dec 15 15:34:41 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
Abort - core dumped
WARNING: /usr/sbin/zfs mount -a failed: exit status 134
[ Dec 15 15:34:43 Method "start" exited with status 95 ]
bash-3.00# /usr/sbin/zfs mount -a
internal error: Unknown error
Abort (core dumped)
Before that I've installed the patch cluster with halted solaris zones which produced following output:
Application of patches finished : 2010.12.15 12:08:43
Following patches were applied :
119254-77 119812-10 125719-31 140159-03 142911-01
141588-04 119900-11 125731-05 142292-01 142933-02
142251-02 119906-16 126206-05 141444-09 142909-17
118666-28 120460-17 126363-08 141500-07 143140-04
118667-28 121012-03 126365-16 141502-02 143502-01
118777-16 121308-20 126868-04 141506-09 143506-01
140860-02 122212-40 127724-02 141514-02 143615-02
119059-56 122261-03 136998-09 141518-12 143731-01
119213-23 122675-05 137000-07 141552-03 143733-01
124628-10 123003-04 137080-05 141558-01 143977-01
119252-29 123590-12 137147-06 141586-01 144053-04
119280-23 123893-22 138195-04 141590-02 144106-01
124188-03 124393-11 138822-07 141874-09 144254-01
120199-15 124457-02 138826-07 141876-07 144488-04
119534-19 124630-42 138880-02 142084-04 144492-01
120272-28 125215-03 139099-04 142397-01 145124-01
119757-18 125388-03 139620-01 142529-01 145796-01
119783-15 125555-07
Following patches were skipped :
Patches already applied
120900-04 119063-01 119810-05 123005-07 137093-01
121133-02 119081-25 119986-03 124444-01 138866-03
119317-01 119130-33 120061-02 124939-03 137137-09
121296-01 123611-04 120201-05 124943-01 137871-02
138215-01 140899-01 120292-02 124997-01 138181-01
127884-01 122640-05 120329-02 125279-05 138361-01
118712-23 126897-02 121975-01 125539-06 138373-02
118918-24 127755-01 120719-02 125891-01 138647-01
138217-01 125503-02 120830-06 126440-01 141016-01
119578-30 125547-02 121095-02 126540-02 139555-08
121453-02 140796-01 121606-04 127127-11 139967-01
121453-02 120011-14 124171-07 136882-02 140455-01
121118-16 139520-02 123630-03 137032-01 140563-01
118833-36 119764-06
Patches obsoleted by one or more patches already applied
118731-01 124204-04 122660-10
Patches not applicable to packages on the system
121181-03 120410-33 121211-02 125533-15 143317-03
119115-35 120412-11 122259-03 125541-06 143510-01
119117-52 120414-27 122470-03 125952-20 143725-01
119315-19 120543-21 122911-24 137004-08 143727-01
119548-14 120739-06 122958-06 138387-01 143739-01
119903-02 120811-09 123938-02 138824-07 144325-01
120094-30 120849-04 125136-24 138876-01 145006-02
120185-21 121104-11 125137-24 139986-01 145080-01
119368-04 121136-02 125332-14 142244-02 145200-01
120286-03
Installation of patch set complete. PLEASE REBOOT THE SYSTEM.
when i tried to reboot the system by init 6 the service iscsi hanged and produced syslog errors about a unkown iocall -> killed the process. System rebooted w/o errors.
Does anyone have got an idea how to find out which patch or whatever do produce these errors?

Hi,
I'm having the same issue of diskmon core dumps after upgrading grid and database from 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.2 on Solaris 10 x86-64. Following this thread, I'm trying to deinstall the Oracle 11.2.0.1 grid home.
I answered the following questions asked by the grid deinstall tool:
1. ASM configuration was not detected in this Oracle home. Was ASM configured in this Oracle home (y|n): y
2. Specify the ASM Diagnostic Destination: /db01/app/oracle/diag/asm/+ASM
3. Specify the diskgroups that are managed by this ASM instance: DATA FRA
4. De-configuring ASM will drop all the diskgroups at cleanup time. Do you want deconfig tool to drop the diskgroups:
If I answer no to question 1, the tool exits with error.
How do I answer question #4? (confused about this question of dropping diskgroups, it's already been upgraded)
Deinstall of Oracle db Home 11.2.0.1 was successful.
The +ASM instance has been upgraded and is running fine under 11.2.0.2 except for the excessive diskmon core dumps.
Thanks,
Lisa
Edited by: user12018917 on Apr 19, 2011 10:21 AM

Sun Cluster 3.2, Zones, HA-Oracle, & FSS

I have a customer who wants to deploy a cluster utilizing Solaris 10 Zones. With creating the resource groups with the following: nodeA:zoneA, nodeB:zoneA, the Oracle resource group will be contained in the respective zone.
First create the Zone after the Sun Cluster software has been installed?
When installing Oracle, the binaries and such should reside in the Zone or in the global zone?
When configuring FSS, should this be done after the resources have been configured?
Thanks in advance,
Ryan

The Oracle biaries are not big at all, ther is not much IO happening at this fs, you can easily create a ufs file system for each zone, mount that via lofs mounts into the zone. Or you can create a zpool for the binaries. My personal take would be to include them in the root path of the zones an you are set.
You must install the binaries in all zones where your Oracle database can fail over to. To reduce the maintenance work in the case of upgrades I would limit the binary installation to the zones in the nodelist of your oracle resource group. If you install the binaries on all nodes/zones of the cluster you have more work when it comes to an upgrade.
Kind Regards
Detlef

Clusterware to control solaris zones/containers

Hi,
Does anyone uses crs to control solaris zones/containers?
Is it supported, what are the implementations you have? Do you have the zones installed on a acfs filesystem, ufs or zfs?
How does the crs control them? Scripts?
Regards

Hi,
what exactly do you mean by crs? I only know this term in conjunction with the Oracle Clusterware, which comes with the Grid Infrastructure.
In general there is no build in function from Oracle Clusterware/Grid Infrastructure to control Solaris Zones/Containers, especially if you install the Oracle Grid Infrastructure in the local zone, then you do not have any control for the zone itself. Even if you install GI in the global zone, there are no build in control functions. You would have to write something yourself, but in this case I would use Solaris Clusterware.
So if you need a clusterware to control the zones, I would take Oracle Solaris Clusterware. (Note the difference, this is not the Grid Infrastructure, but the original SUN clusterware).
This also answers your other questions. Solaris Zones cannot be build on ACFS, since ACFS comes with the GI.
So normally zones will be build on ZFS. Solaris Cluster also has build in functionaly to control the zones.
Regards
Sebastian

Req: Checkpointing Disks for Solaris Zones

Is there a way using Solaris Zones to checkpoint a disk? I would like to be able to carry out a series of experiments on a test system and start from an identical configuration each time. VMWare calls this capability "Disk checkpointing," and Solaris Zones appears to somewhat resemble VMWare.

Hi,
since the SCOM Agent is not 'cluster aware' you probably have no other choice than restarting the agent and wait for the next discovery cycle of the solaris logical disks. You can speed this up by manually override the discovery interval for that specific
server. After that the disk is not longer monitored.
If you have the time and knowledge you could set up a custom monitoring for clustered filesystems and disable the standard monitoring for that filesystems. But I think thats quite time-consuming. We have the same issues here with our Solaris and Linux clustered/shared
filesystems but we still live with the workaround of restarting the agent.
Regards

Installing cluster in solaris 10 virtual machine

I want to configure two node cluster in solaris 10.
I created a partion 0f 2 GB but forgot to name it as /globaldevices while installing.
Now, I am unable to modify my partition table as the error is " can't modify while it has mounted partitions ".
Kindly tell me how to have a /globaldevices partition without reinstalling solaris 10 virtual machine.
Also I want to free the 2 GB space and I want to give it to root.
Please help

Moderator Action:
Moved from the General Solaris 10 forum
to the Clustering forum, hopefully to more on-topic.
@O.P.
Please try to pay attention to where you actually place your posts.
If you pick an appropriate forum, you'll get better responses.
These are technical forums, not a bunch of chat rooms.
For example, there are forum members that ONLY post to the clustering forum and those same people NEVER contribute to the Solaris 10 forum.

Oracle licensing in Solaris zones

Hi all,
I've read a few documents about Oracle licensing :
http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/consolidation/Containers_Oracle_041305.pdf
http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/partitioning.pdf
However, there's one thing not clear to me. In Solaris zones, you dedicate threads (usually referred to as 'CPU' on Solaris) to zones. Oracle licensing is always about the number of cores used by the partition, not the number of threads. How do you convert from threads to cores?
I'll give an example:
A T2 system with 2 processors, 8 cores each, 8 threads each (128 threads in total). You create a resource pool with 2 CPUs (threads): 1 thread from one core, and 1 thread from another one (or they are assigned like that for you) and associate a zone that runs Oracle.
I can think of two ways of calculating the number of cores used:
1) divide the number of dedicated threads by the number of threads per core: 2 / 8 = 0.25 (optionally round it up to 1) -- This is how IBM does its licensing.
2) count the number of physical cores that are being used by the zone. In this case this is 2, as the threads are not running on the same core.
Can anyone help me figuring this out?
Thanks!
Regards,
Mathieu

Hi Dezutterm,
I'm not a sales guy, but from how I understand things... you've already figured it out yourself:
dezutterm wrote:
I'll give an example:
A T2 system with 2 processors, 8 cores each, 8 threads each (128 threads in total). You create a resource pool with 2 CPUs (threads): 1 thread from one core, and 1 thread from another one (or they are assigned like that for you) and associate a zone that runs Oracle.
I can think of two ways of calculating the number of cores used:
1) divide the number of dedicated threads by the number of threads per core: 2 / 8 = 0.25 (optionally round it up to 1) -- This is how IBM does its licensing.
2) count the number of physical cores that are being used by the zone. In this case this is 2, as the threads are not running on the same core.
Can anyone help me figuring this out?Like you've seen, Oracle cares about how many cores are running Oracle software, not threads (from "Processor" definition here: http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/technology-price-list.pdf). If you have 2 cores running Oracle software, you take "2" and multiple by the Core Processor Licensing Factor for that model of CPU (http://www.oracle.com/corporate/contracts/library/processor-core-factor-table.pdf) which for a T2 is 0.25... meaning you need 2 x 0.25 = 0.5 processor licenses. If you would have used both threads from the same core, you would need 0.25.
If this isn't correct, somebody please let us know, thanks!
[email protected]

Can EM12c Cloud Control agent be installed in a solaris zone?

Can EM12c Cloud Control agent be installed in a solaris zone?
If so, are Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 zones supported?
thanks

Yes we can...
Solaris 9 is supported...I have installed agents on solaris 9 and 10

EM 12c and Solaris Zone Monitoring

Hi all,
I am using Oracle EM 12c to monitor Oracle database server which run on Solaris zone, which is capped to run using only 4 cores.
BUT the Host management home page is still showing "Total Cores" of 8 (I am using Sun T4-1).
Is there some configuration which required to be done to reflect the number of capped CPU.
Also is there a way to isolate the CPU, Memory, Filesystem and Network utilization to only look at the local zone?
I suspect what I see now represent the resource utilization of the physical machine.
Thank you.
-Joel

Loc,
I've opened quite a few SRs, some handled well, some not. My biggest issue perhaps is that SRs are needed at all. We are a small shop that relied on OEM 10.2 for a long time, skipped over 11G and went right to 12R2. It was a culture shock, and I'm not sure if skipping the version added to our woes.
There are 3 DBAs here, with Oracle experience between 13 and 18 years, we are not newbies. I took the em12c class from Oracle.
But still, acceptance of its use has not been high, mostly because it's no longer the quick, targeted place we 'go to'. It's a huge product now, with much built-in. We are finding we need a mind adjustment to use it and the transition period related to how much time we can spend on that. Our intent, though, was to make things easier, not harder.
Case in point is our implementation of DataGuard. This project was new to us and I made EM12C upgrade as a predecessor project because I needed its help. I ultimately abandoned it, we hired a consultant, we learned manual steps, and that's what we use today. Everything is homegrown.
I feel as through the purpose for EM moved from a DBA monitoring tool. Remember OEM 10.2 and its initial summary page that showed the overall health of everything on one shot? I can't do that in em12c, or at least haven't found that.
Here are some SRs:
SR 3-6392247151
Sr 3-7159111371
SR 3-6645421051
* SR 3-6608820051
SR 3-6667182071
* Covers "invalid objects" missing, something we previously relied on.
Back to the original question of this post - I understand now that if we use EM to switch our databases, the role reversal will show. We would have loved to rely on EM for everything. Now that we must do everything manually, I have to then manually drop the target being monitored and re-add it. Again, something that should make our jobs easier is now harder.
Thanks for listening. Am I really the only DBA that says EM12C is harder to use for basic functionality?
Sherrie

SAP Java and Solaris Zones SolMan 4.0

May require Solaris Zones experience to continue.
I have three SAP database instances/central instances running in three sparse Solaris zones with no problem.
I have created a new sparse zone for a new SAP installation (Solution Manager 4.0) and started the installation. SAP requires a 1.4.2 SDK even though Java 1.5 comes with Solaris 10. The 1.4.2 SDK is in /usr/j2se. The installation in the sparse zone errors out because it can't get "write" rights to /usr/j2se/jre/lib/security/local_policy.jar as it is trying to install some security encryption JCE component.
I have thought about creating a /usr/j2se_zonename file system, copying the contents of /usr/j2se into it and then mounting /usr/j2se_zonename in the zone as a lofs with the name /usr/j2se. However when I do the copy of /usr/j2se I get some recursion errors.
Any thoughts about how to add a writable /usr/j2se into the sparse zone with the least amount of effort ? Otherwise plan B would be to create a "large" zone with a writable /usr directory.
Received a great answer, that while it may not be architecturally "pure" it may get the job done.
You might just download the relevant JDK tarball and unpack that
somewhere in your zone (anywhere you like), and point SAP at it...
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html
Get the one called "self extracting file"-- you can unpack that anywhere
you want.
Message was edited by: Atis Purins

Hi Russ,
no you only have to generate two RFCs to your R/3 and assign them in SMSY to for system monitoring
Then you need a Solution, assign your R/3 to the Solution, setup the system monitoring.
Regards,
uDo

Resource Management and Solaris Zones Developer Guide

Solaris Information Products ("Pubs") is creating a
developer guide for resource management and Solaris Zones.
The department is seeking input on content from application
developers and ISVs.
We plan to discuss the different categories of applications
that can take advantage of Solaris resource management
features, and provide implementation examples that discuss
the particular RM features that can be used.
Although running in a zone poses no differences to most
applications, we will describe any possible limitations and
offer appropriate workarounds. We will also provide
information needed by the ISV, such as determining
the appropriate system calls to use in a non-global zone.
We plan to use case studies to document the zones material.
We would like to know the sorts of topics that you would
like to see covered. We want to be sure that we address
your specific development concerns with regard to these
features.
Thank you for your comments and suggestions.

Hi there, i'm using solaris resource management in a
server with more thant 2thousand acounts.
Created profiles for users, defaul, staff, root and
services.Seeing the contents of your /etc/project file could be helpful.
But while using rctladm to enable syslog'ing, I set up
global flags of "deny" and "no-local-action" in almos
everything.The flags on the right hand side of the rctladm(1M) output are read-only:
they are telling you the characteristics of the resource control in question (what
operations the system will allow the resource control to take).
Now, many aplications don't work because they are
denied enough process.max-stack-size and
process.max-file-descriptor for them to work.
Applications such has prstat.If prstat(1) is failing due to the process.max-file-descriptor control value, that's
probably a bug. prstat(1) is more likely bumping into the limit to assess how many file
descriptors are available, and then carrying on--you're just seeing a log message since
prstat(1) tested the file descriptor limit, and you've enabled syslog for that control. Please
post the prstat(1) output, and we'll figure out if something's breaking.
I don't find a way to disable the global flags. You can't. I would disable the syslog action on the process.max-stack-size control first;
there is an outstanding bug on this control, in that it will report a false triggering event--
no actual effect to the process. (If you send me some mail, I will add you as a call record
on the bug.)
Can anyone tell me:
how to disable global flags?
how to disable and enable solaris resource management
all together?You could raise all of the control values, but the resource control facility (like the resource
limit facility it superseded) is always active. Let's figure out if you're hitting the bug I mentioned,
and then figure out how to proceed.
- Stephen
Stephen Hahn, PhD Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems
[email protected]

Setting time on solaris Zone

Hi all,
Simple question I hope. I assume it is not possible to set a different time for a solaris Zone to the global Zone. Is this the case?
Cheers

Yes. Zones do not implement a virtual machine. There is no separate clock.
Like any other process, you can set your own timezones, but that's about it.
Darren

Need some training material on solaris zones

I am an HP UX admin and I am upgrading my skills and learning Sun Solaris these days. I need some quick start on solaris zones, I believe they are same as vpar, npar on HPUX.
Can some one please provide me some guidance?

have a look at this one:
http://www2.emet.co.il/events/120105/solaris-zones.pdf
also there are 2 good demos here:
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/zones/
Babak

OSB and Solaris Zones

Hi,
Does anybody have any experience of running OSB inside a Solaris zone?
I'm experimenting with this at the moment and would like to share the OSB installation with the global zone, but keep the /usr/etc and /usr/tmp directories where the host-specific stuff is stored private.
Thanks.

I following Oracle® Secure Backup Installation and Configuration Guide
Release 10.3 :
- To Viewing SCSI Bus Name-Instance Parameter Values in Solaris :
# cd /usr/local/oracle/backup/install
# installdriver
bash: installdriver: command not found
# ./installdriver
case: Too many arguments
How could i can run the installdriver script for SCSI information
Best Regards
Ch

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