How to install a SUN cluster in a non-global zone?

How do I install a SUN cluster in a non-global zone? If it is the same as installing SUN Cluster in the global zone, then how do I access the cdrom from a non-global zone to the global zone?
Please point me to some docs or urls if there are any. Thanks in advance!

You don't really install the cluster software on zones. You have to set up a zone cluster once you have configured the Global Zone cluster (or in other words, clustered the physical systems + OS).
http://blogs.sun.com/SC/entry/zone_clusters

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How to install Oracle 10g on Solaris 10 non-global zone.

Hi,
I want to install Oracle 10g on Solaris non global zone with ASM.
I need complete doc for doing the same.
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S.Ali

Check Oracle® Database Installation Guide 10g Release 2 (10.2) for Solaris Operating System.

Install Oracle Database 11g in a non-global Zone

Hi Folks
If everyone install a Oracle 11g database in a non-global zone, please give me some advice.
Is there any requirements (Packages) in the global zone?
Some special about the Installation process?
Any documents or best practice?
Best regards
Martin

If your using full root non-global zones, then it would be the same as installing it on the global zone. This how we do it at my work, we install the DB on a full root zone, that is the only zone on a global zone or the other zone is a very light load.

How to add a second nic card to non global zone

hi every one
i have a issue like
my non global zone has hme0 as the nic card
i want to add a secondary nic card like pcn0 to the non global zone . how can i add to the nonglobal zone so that both the nic cards should exist in the nonglobal zone
please tell me the command and procedure for that
thanks in advance ....

If your non-global zone is a shared IP zone, then you can add like
zonecfg -z <zonename>
add net
set physical=pnc0
set address=<IP Address>
end
verify
commit
exit
If your non-global zone is an exclusive IP zone, then remember that the interface pnc0 you are adding will be in control of non-global zone exclusively.
Steps to add it are same as above.

How to retrieve # on-line procs in a non-global zone with resource pool

Is there any way to retrieve the #of on line processors of the machine running in a non global zone with resource pool ?
sysconf does not return this value. In fact this is an excerpt of the man:
"If the caller is in a non-global zone and the pools facility is active, sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) and sysconf_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN) return the number of processors in the processor set of the pool to which the zone is bound."

So, from within a local zone that's in a pool (i.e. in a pool with 8 CPUs) , you want to query how many CPUs really exist in the global zone (i.e. the global zone may actually have 16 CPUs)? I don't think that's possible: in fact for security reasons it's probably intentionally disabled.
A quick workaround would be a script/cron-job in the global zone that writes a small file in the filesystem of the local zone... then from within that zone you could read the CPU count.
I'm interested though: what are you trying to set up?
Regards,
[email protected]

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.
For the LIve upgrade I need to convert the root ZFS to UFS which should be straight forward.
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
Any assistance gratefully received

Hi,
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

How to install JDK6 and Netbeans 6 in a non-global zone?

Hi,
I have a Solaris system where I want to deploy separate containers for several developers.
I'm having difficulty in installing JDK 6 and Netbeans 6, I get lots of missing package errors in non-global zone.
What would be the best approach for installing jdk 6 + netbeans 6 seperately for each developer?
Thanks in advance.

Hi
It depends how you have created your zone, what has been inherited from the global:
inherit-pkg-dir:
dir: /lib
inherit-pkg-dir:
dir: /platform
inherit-pkg-dir:
dir: /sbin
inherit-pkg-dir:
dir: /usr
But if you only want a jdk and netbeans, there is no really dependencies the simplest approach si to download the not packaged version and put it in /opt which is not inherited
You just have to put a jdk in /opt/jdk1.6.0... and netbeans in /opt/netbeans-6.0..
Don't really understand why you want a separate zone, one zone, several accounts which share the same jdk and netbeans, that's the way unix work ;)

Always install applications into non-global zones?

I am planning on taking full advantage of Containers and Zones as I migrate servers and applications to Solaris 10. During this migration process, I believe that I will have a need to initially just run just one application on a server. I fear that if I do this in the global zone I will lose flexibility down the road for future projects and workloads. So, should I consider always installing applications in a non-global zone and never install applications in the global zone? This would keep the global zone as the controller of the non-global zones and ensure that I can always add more non-global zones later without having to worry about what is running in the global zone.
Are there any thoughts or comments on this topic?

Yes we've found it's best to run the applications in non-global zones. Here are a few benefits, basically we only put an application in the global zone if it requires it (like Oracle RAC). Note non-RAC instances of Oracle will run in a non-global zone just fine.
Reasons to put applications in non-global zones
o Increased security (self contained environment)
o Increased flexibility for provisioning resources (CPU, memory, etc) when/if we decide to run multiple applications on the same hardware
o Increased flexibility in starting up temporary environments to debug issues in parallel to the primary environment (i.e. in another non-global zone on the same server)
o Works well with Sun Cluster (i.e. we cluster the non-global zones so that they can run across several hosts)
o Improved trouble shooting and performance diagnosis as the applications are isolated to a non-global zone
o Simplified environment for the application admins as the environment can be fine tuned for their needs (i.e. only let them see what they need)
o Disaster recovery is much faster for a non-global zone

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
Every zone is installed on zpool zones (on local disks):
root@db01:~$ zpool status zones
pool: zones
state: ONLINE
scrub: none requested
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
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
d3 db01:/dev/rdsk/c4t600508B4000906990001100000E70000d0
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.
This creates a lofs mount into the zone.
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
It would be better, if you would have more and smaller luns, so that you could restrict on lun to a pair of zones.
Kind Regards
Detlef

How to enable GUI in a non global zone in solaris11?

How to enable graphical logon in a non global zone in solaris11, so the zone can be login by Xmanager? Thanks!

This guide will cover how to setup a basic VNC connection to a Solaris 11 machine. There is also an optional step to allow for persistent VNC connections.
Step 1
Configure GDM to include ‘[security] DisallowTCP=false’ and ‘[xdmcp] Enable=true’.
$ sudo gedit /etc/gdm/custom.conf
# GDM configuration storage
[daemon]
[security]
DisallowTCP=false
[xdmcp]
Enable=true
[greeter]
[chooser]
[debug]
Step 2
Configure X-Server to accept remote connections.
# svccfg -s application/x11/x11-server
svc:/application/x11/x11-server> setprop options/tcp_listen = boolean: true
svc:/application/x11/x11-server> end
Step 3
Configure the VNC service (you could change the ‘-geometry 1280×720′ to whatever resolution you would like).
# svccfg -s xvnc-inetd
svc:/application/x11/xvnc-inetd> setprop inetd_start/exec = astring: "/usr/bin/Xvnc -desktop sol11:0 -geometry 1024x768 -inetd -query localhost -once securitytypes=none"
svc:/application/x11/xvnc-inetd> setprop inetd/wait = boolean: true
svc:/application/x11/xvnc-inetd> end
** The line highlighted red is optional – only do this if you want your VNC connection to persist (as well as any potential security issues)
or
# svccfg -s xvnc-inetd
svc:/application/x11/xvnc-inetd> editprop
search for # setprop inetd_start/exec = astring: "/usr/bin/Xvnc
copy the line, uncomment the copy, makethe changes above, write the file out.
svcadm refresh xvnc-inetd
Step 4
Disable and the re-enable the GDM and VNC-inetd services for the changes to take effect.
$ su root
Password:
# svcadm disable gdm xvnc-inetd; svcadm enable gdm xvnc-inetd
If still in maintenance, reboot (I had to, don't know why).
Step 5
Point your favourite VNC client at your Solaris server and test if it accepts your VNC connection – you should be presented with a Username/Password login screen.
If you performed the optional step to make your connections persist – close your favourite VNC client and then reconnect – if you remained logged in you have a persistent connections.
Greg on said:
After a fresh text install of Solaris-11 (11/11) both xvnc-inetd and gdm are not present. After installing them (# pkg install xvnc-inetd gdm) I can’t get gdm to start:
# svcadm enable gdm
# svcs gdm
offline 10:24:03 svc:/application/graphical-login/gdm:default
Any thoughts?
Ron on said:
You are missing some X packages. Do the following:
pkg install slim_install           # installs 400+ packages
svcadm enable gdm && exit      # gdm now works
pkg uninstall slim_install           # uninstalls the installer package only

Failing to install pkg on non-global zone

(root)@syslog1:~# pkgadd -d . SUNWant
Processing package instance <SUNWant> from </home/iqbala>
Jakarta ANT(sparc) 11.10.0,REV=2005.01.08.05.16
WARNING: Stale lock installed for pkgrm, pkg SUNWaspell quit in remove-initial state.
Removing lock.
Using </> as the package base directory.
## Processing package information.
ERROR: Cannot allocate memory for package object array.
pkgadd: ERROR: memory allocation failure
pkgadd: ERROR: unable to process pkgmap
Installation of <SUNWant> failed (internal error).
No changes were made to the system.
(root)@syslog1:~#
(root)@syslog1:~# zonename
syslog
This non-global zone is capped to 1G phy memory out of 2G total of the T1000
(root)@syslog-global:~# uname -a
SunOS syslog-global 5.10 Generic_137137-09 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T1000
(root)@syslog-global:~# zoneadm list
global
syslog
(root)@syslog-global:~# zonename
global
(root)@syslog-global:~# zonecfg -z syslog info
zonename: syslog
zonepath: /syslog
brand: native
autoboot: true
bootargs: -m verbose
pool:
limitpriv: default,sys_time
scheduling-class: FSS
ip-type: shared
inherit-pkg-dir:
     dir: /lib
inherit-pkg-dir:
     dir: /platform
inherit-pkg-dir:
     dir: /sbin
inherit-pkg-dir:
     dir: /usr
fs:
     dir: /var/logs
     special: /var/logs
     raw not specified
     type: lofs
     options: []
fs:
     dir: /usr/local
     special: /syslog-local/usr/local
     raw not specified
     type: lofs
     options: []
net:
     address: 192.168.0.114
     physical: aggr1
     defrouter: 192.168.0.1
dedicated-cpu:
     ncpus: 1-8
     importance: 10
capped-memory:
     physical: 1G
     [swap: 512M]
attr:
     name: comment
     type: string
     value: "syslog server"
rctl:
     name: zone.max-swap
     value: (priv=privileged,limit=536870912,action=deny)
(root)@syslog-global:~# prstat -Z
PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP
13118 root 7184K 5952K sleep 1 0 52:00:54 0.5% nco_p_syslog/10
11730 root 162M 123M sleep 59 0 38:51:35 0.1% splunkd/22
7324 root 12M 8280K sleep 59 0 0:58:06 0.0% syslogd/25
266 root 97M 24M sleep 49 0 31:45:02 0.0% poold/8
209 daemon 8104K 3080K sleep 59 0 24:39:56 0.0% rcapd/1
29553 root 2496K 2024K cpu4 59 5 0:00:00 0.0% splunk-optimize/1
21578 root 38M 36M sleep 59 0 0:01:10 0.0% puppetd/2
29554 root 6088K 3712K cpu0 49 0 0:00:00 0.0% prstat/1
24244 root 5760K 3104K sleep 49 0 0:00:00 0.0% bash/1
1024 noaccess 171M 96M sleep 59 0 8:41:32 0.0% java/18
27771 noaccess 189M 100M sleep 1 0 4:44:36 0.0% java/18
274 daemon 3192K 496K sleep 59 0 0:00:00 0.0% statd/1
279 daemon 2816K 576K sleep 60 -20 0:00:00 0.0% nfs4cbd/2
326 root 2304K 40K sleep 59 0 0:00:00 0.0% cimomboot/1
151 root 2576K 344K sleep 59 0 0:00:00 0.0% drd/2
ZONEID NPROC SWAP RSS MEMORY TIME CPU ZONE
3 47 465M 513M 25% 99:54:00 0.7% syslog
0 42 391M 466M 23% 71:04:39 0.1% global
Total: 89 processes, 386 lwps, load averages: 0.21, 0.26, 0.26
Am I hitting a bug?

If your pkg wants to be installed in /usr or another inherit-pkg-dir, it can't because they are share as read-only.
Verify wherer the pkg copies its files.

How to know global zone in case non global zone is hung

....I have nongloabazone1,nongloabazone1,nongloabazone2,nongloabazone3...
i am working on nongloabazone1 ..
suppose i am giving remote support ...
if my nongloabazone1 is hung ..i need to know the global zone on which this nongloabazone1 is installed and reboot from there ...if my nongloabazone1 is hung i cannot apply #arp -a and check it out by trial and error method and know the global zone....
in this case how can i reboot the nongloabazone1 .....i have the same question in case of Ldoms also..............
Thanks in Advance.......

Hi.
It's not clear what means "non global zone is hung".
In case it realy hangs you can't do anythins in this zone.
1) In case you have access to global zone. You can get list all zones running on this host:
zoneadm list -cv
For reboot local zone from global zone just need: zoneadm -z <zone_name> reboot
2) Zones not support live migration. So after zone started it can not change global zone.
Create script that put global zone name in file. When need - just read content of this file.
This file can be created from global zone when start (or create/move) local zone.
In case zone migration is not quickly operation, just create file (or database) for list what zone started on which host.
For LDOM it look wery same.
Regards.

Application pkg install in non Global zone

I have got another virtual instance up on solaris box, i am trying to install application pkg which writes to
/usr
which is mounted as read only.
is it possible to create policy to write under that folder
e.g. /usr/writable where u can add/change stuff in non global zone
thanks

You'll need to build a "whole root" zone to do that. You currently have a "sparse root" zone.
There are two types of non-global zone root file system models: sparse and whole root. The sparse root zone model optimizes the sharing of objects. The whole root zone model provides the maximum configurability. These concepts are discussed in Chapter 18, Planning and Configuring Non-Global Zones (Tasks).
(from http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1592/6mhahuooc?a=view )

After installing 137137-09 patch OK in global zone, bad in non global zone

Hi all,
scratching my head with this one.
Installed 137137-09 fine on Sun Fire V210. Machine has one non global zone running a proxy server (nothing very exciting there!). non global zone has a local filesystem attached, but don't think this is the issue (on my test V210 I created the same sort of filesystem and was unable to replicate the problem :( ).
So 137137-09 is fine in the global zone (I had the non global zone halted when patch installed) it is also installed in the non global zone (ie, when zone boots it says it's at rev 137137-09 via uname) in the patch log in the non global zone I get this:
PKG=SUNWust2.v
Original package not installed.
pkgadd: ERROR: ERROR: unable to get zone brand: zonecfg_get_brand: No such zone configured
This appears to be an attempt to install the same architecture and
version of a package which is already installed. This installation
will attempt to overwrite this package.
/usr/local/zones/cotchin/lu/dev/.SUNW_patches_1000109009-1847556-000000d3e42faa84/137137-09/FJSVcpcu/install/checkinstall: /usr/local/zones/cotchin/lu/dev/.SUNW_patches_1000109009-1847556-000000d3e42faa84/137137-09/FJSVcpcu/install/checkinstall: cannot open
pkgadd: ERROR: checkinstall script did not complete successfully
Dryrun complete.
No changes were made to the system.
I'm not sure if the branding error is causing the checkinstall postpatch script error or if they are not related. There doesn't seem to be any obvious permissions problems that I can find. I have checked that all the pkg and patch patches are up to date on the system. Searching on the brand error gives me a link to a problem with 127127-11, but that was installed on the system before the local zone was created and all the other seemingly appropriate patches (eg: 119254) are all up to date or at a higher revision than recommended.
I see the same problem on a M5000 which has two non global zones on it.
Both machines had the Solaris 10 50/08 update bundle applied when it came out,a nd have had recommended patch sets applied at regular intervals since.
This issue only came to light when trying the latest bundles with 138888-01/02 in it, and those fail to install on the global zones because the non global zone install dies claiming 137137-09 is not installed (which is plainly wrong).
I've tried to recreate this on a test server but unfortunately everything works as it should, even though the test server has a similar history in terms of patches and original setup to the others.
I'm planning to try to detatch the non global zone and try an attach -u to see if it will update the patches properly, but I'm not holding out much hope on that one (I need to wait for a mainteiance window when I can take the zone down in a couple of days).
Any ideas?

Well, I am following up to my own post it seems I have determined what is causing the problem, or at least situations where the problem can be reproduced which I have been able to do on my test system.
It seems that if the zone container's zonepath is in /usr (eg: /usr/zones, /usr/local/zones, or some other path under /usr) the patchadd of 137137-09 will fail with the log similar to posted above, and this will stop further kernel patches (eg: 138888-02) being added.
The test system had everything patched to current and searching the web I can't find any other instances of this being an issue, but I have reproduced this problem on my test machine (which worked OK because it's test zones were in a filesystem mounted as /zones). When I used zoneadd -z <zonename> move to a zone in /usr/local and applied 137137-09 the same problem came up.
Not sure what is causing this issue.. I imagine it might have to do with some sort of confusion with the patch utilities and the read-only loopback filesystems in the sparse root zone but I can't bs sure.
Maybe someone at sun will see this and figure out what the deal is :)
When I moved my test zone back to /zones the patch applied perfectly so it's definitely having it in /usr or /usr/local (I tried both locations, even though they are seperate ufs filesystems on my test server).
Oh I am running DiskSuite to mirror filesystems on my V210's which may or may not have anything to do with it.
Hope this helps someone in the future at least!

Installing Pakcage in Non Global Zone

Hi,
I have SUNWbtool package that is installed in Global Zone but not installed in one my (Non-global) Zones called test
Below are parameters of package on Global Zone.
SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES='true'
SUNW_PKG_HOLLOW='false'
But somehow I can't see this package in one of my test Zone. How to get this package reflected into my test Zone as it is already installed in Global Zone?
This package is required to install Oracle10G grid on on my Test Zone.

it's possible that it's not happening due to questions being asked in the install process. Which version of Sol 10 are you using? ( cat /etc/release)

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