Running a Sun Cluster on one system using containers

Hello,
We would like to set up a test Sun Cluster Environment on one system using containers.
Has any one done this ? Is there documentation in the sun community on how to do this ?
Thank you
Bradley Duncan
Application Support
City University of New York

You can not install/configure a cluster just between non-global zones on the same physical node. The cluster software always needs to be installed in the global zone.
What you can do is install Solaris Cluster just on one physical node (a single-node cluster) and then you can configure native non-global zones and configure resource groups to failover between those non-global zones on the same node.
The resource group has a nodelist property, where you can configure node:zonea,node:zoneb - which will allow that RG to failover between zonea and zoneb on the same node.
A good start if your purpose is just to have a learning/development/experiment environment.
Regards
Thorsten

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