Sharing software package with non-global zone

I've installed Solaris Studio 12.3 to a global zone on Solaris 11 following instructions from http://pkg-register.oracle.com which I want to make available to the non-global zones. Do I need to install it independently for all zones, or can I export/share it?

All files are normally installed in /opt/solarisstudio12.3. You can share it, but it is recommended to install it independently for all zones if you want different installed versions.

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Live upgrade - solaris 8/07 (U4) , with non-global zones and SC 3.2

Dears,
I need to use live upgrade for SC3.2 with non-global zones, solaris 10 U4 to Solaris 10 10/09 (latest release) and update the cluster to 3.2 U3.
i dont know where to start, i've read lots of documents, but couldn't find one complete document to cover the whole process.
i know that upgrade for solaris 10 with non-global zones is supported since my soalris 10 release, but i am not sure if its supported with SC.
Appreciate your help

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

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

Patching sol10 with non-global zones.

The patch REAMDE says perform in single user mode. if the system is in single user mode, will the non-global zones get patched also?

Hello
I found a couple of docs that can help you, see the one that describe how to create "BE" in a sol10 brandz this is the safest way to patch a sol10 brand zone.
How to Install a Solaris Patchset in a Branded Zone (Doc ID 1489197.1)
And if you are using sol11.1 you can use something similar to LU
How to create and patch a new boot environment in an Oracle Solaris 10 Zone on a Oracle Solaris 11.1 system (Doc ID 1558773.1)
Regards
Eze

What options do I have to patch the recommended patchset on Solaris 10 with a bunch of non-global zones?

With the standard patching process(installcluster), it takes a looong time since each zone needs veridated. Any option that I can apply the patchset to the global zone only, then later upgrade the non-global zones?
If possible, I'd like to use LU.

You can use LU but it will depend of your system config. There are instructions in the README of the patchset to install it on an alternate boot environment (previously created using lucreate).
If you plan to use LU, read the following docs first to avoid common issues:
Solaris Live Upgrade Software Patch Requirements(Doc ID 1004881.1)
List of currently unsupported Live Upgrade (LU) configurations (Doc ID 1396382.1)
You can also use Parallel Patching feature to improve performance :
https://blogs.oracle.com/patch/entry/zones_parallel_patching_feature_now
Solaris 10 10/09: Zones Parallel Patching to ReducePatching Time (System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris Containers…
What you can't do is patch the global zone only and the non-global zones later (unless the zones are detached). It's a requirement that the global and non-global stay synchronize at all time (considering that they are sharing the same kernel).

Lucreate not working with ZFS and non-global zones

I replied to this thread: Re: lucreate and non-global zones as to not duplicate content, but for some reason it was locked. So I'll post here... I'm experiencing the exact same issue on my system. Below is the lucreate and zfs list output.
# lucreate -n patch20130408
Creating Live Upgrade boot environment...
Analyzing system configuration.
No name for current boot environment.
INFORMATION: The current boot environment is not named - assigning name <s10s_u10wos_17b>.
Current boot environment is named <s10s_u10wos_17b>.
Creating initial configuration for primary boot environment <s10s_u10wos_17b>.
INFORMATION: No BEs are configured on this system.
The device </dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0> is not a root device for any boot environment; cannot get BE ID.
PBE configuration successful: PBE name <s10s_u10wos_17b> PBE Boot Device </dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0>.
Updating boot environment description database on all BEs.
Updating system configuration files.
Creating configuration for boot environment <patch20130408>.
Source boot environment is <s10s_u10wos_17b>.
Creating file systems on boot environment <patch20130408>.
Populating file systems on boot environment <patch20130408>.
Temporarily mounting zones in PBE <s10s_u10wos_17b>.
Analyzing zones.
WARNING: Directory </zones/APP> zone <global> lies on a filesystem shared between BEs, remapping path to </zones/APP-patch20130408>.
WARNING: Device <tank/zones/APP> is shared between BEs, remapping to <tank/zones/APP-patch20130408>.
WARNING: Directory </zones/DB> zone <global> lies on a filesystem shared between BEs, remapping path to </zones/DB-patch20130408>.
WARNING: Device <tank/zones/DB> is shared between BEs, remapping to <tank/zones/DB-patch20130408>.
Duplicating ZFS datasets from PBE to ABE.
Creating snapshot for <rpool/ROOT/s10s_u10wos_17b> on <rpool/ROOT/s10s_u10wos_17b@patch20130408>.
Creating clone for <rpool/ROOT/s10s_u10wos_17b@patch20130408> on <rpool/ROOT/patch20130408>.
Creating snapshot for <rpool/ROOT/s10s_u10wos_17b/var> on <rpool/ROOT/s10s_u10wos_17b/var@patch20130408>.
Creating clone for <rpool/ROOT/s10s_u10wos_17b/var@patch20130408> on <rpool/ROOT/patch20130408/var>.
Creating snapshot for <tank/zones/DB> on <tank/zones/DB@patch20130408>.
Creating clone for <tank/zones/DB@patch20130408> on <tank/zones/DB-patch20130408>.
Creating snapshot for <tank/zones/APP> on <tank/zones/APP@patch20130408>.
Creating clone for <tank/zones/APP@patch20130408> on <tank/zones/APP-patch20130408>.
Mounting ABE <patch20130408>.
Generating file list.
Finalizing ABE.
Fixing zonepaths in ABE.
Unmounting ABE <patch20130408>.
Fixing properties on ZFS datasets in ABE.
Reverting state of zones in PBE <s10s_u10wos_17b>.
Making boot environment <patch20130408> bootable.
Population of boot environment <patch20130408> successful.
Creation of boot environment <patch20130408> successful.
# zfs list
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
rpool 16.6G 257G 106K /rpool
rpool/ROOT 4.47G 257G 31K legacy
rpool/ROOT/s10s_u10wos_17b 4.34G 257G 4.23G /
rpool/ROOT/s10s_u10wos_17b@patch20130408 3.12M - 4.23G -
rpool/ROOT/s10s_u10wos_17b/var 113M 257G 112M /var
rpool/ROOT/s10s_u10wos_17b/var@patch20130408 864K - 110M -
rpool/ROOT/patch20130408 134M 257G 4.22G /.alt.patch20130408
rpool/ROOT/patch20130408/var 26.0M 257G 118M /.alt.patch20130408/var
rpool/dump 1.55G 257G 1.50G -
rpool/export 63K 257G 32K /export
rpool/export/home 31K 257G 31K /export/home
rpool/h 2.27G 257G 2.27G /h
rpool/security1 28.4M 257G 28.4M /security1
rpool/swap 8.25G 257G 8.00G -
tank 12.9G 261G 31K /tank
tank/swap 8.25G 261G 8.00G -
tank/zones 4.69G 261G 36K /zones
tank/zones/DB 1.30G 261G 1.30G /zones/DB
tank/zones/DB@patch20130408 1.75M - 1.30G -
tank/zones/DB-patch20130408 22.3M 261G 1.30G /.alt.patch20130408/zones/DB-patch20130408
tank/zones/APP 3.34G 261G 3.34G /zones/APP
tank/zones/APP@patch20130408 2.39M - 3.34G -
tank/zones/APP-patch20130408 27.3M 261G 3.33G /.alt.patch20130408/zones/APP-patch20130408

I replied to this thread: Re: lucreate and non-global zones as to not duplicate content, but for some reason it was locked. So I'll post here...The thread was locked because you were not replying to it.
You were hijacking that other person's discussion from 2012 to ask your own new post.
You have now properly asked your question and people can pay attention to you and not confuse you with that other person.

SMCnsnmp in shared-ip non-global zone errors due to duplicate I/F index

Hi all,
I have Solaris 10 zones using the shared-ip model, with Net SMTP installed in the global and non-global zones.
Smtpd starts normally in the global zone, but fails to start in the non-global zones, reporting this error ...
$ sudo tail /zones/roots/uxNNNz4/root/var/log/snmpd.log
error on subcontainer 'interface container' insert (-1)
error on subcontainer 'interface container' insert (-1)
error on subcontainer 'interface container' insert (-1)
error on subcontainer 'interface container' insert (-1)
error on subcontainer 'interface container' insert (-1)
error on subcontainer 'interface container' insert (-1)
error on subcontainer 'interface container' insert (-1)
error on subcontainer 'interface container' insert (-1)
error on subcontainer 'interface container' insert (-1)
error on subcontainer 'interface container' insert (-1)
This error was reported on OpenSolaris some time ago, reference ...
(http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2009/05/10/net-snmp-should-now-work-in-an-opensolaris-non-global-zone) ...
Net-snmp does not work in an opensolaris non-global zone:
+"error on subcontainer ‘interface container’ insert (-1)"+
These errors are caused by opensolaris bug #6640675, which causes all interfaces to be assigned an index value of 0 (this leads net-snmp to think there are duplicate interfaces). The fix was just integrated into Nevada, so hopefully the code will be back ported to Solaris 10.
Example ifconfig in global zone (note index 2 for global and shared-ip VIPs)...
lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
lo0:1: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1
zone ux560z1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
lo0:2: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1
zone ux560z2
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
lo0:3: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1
zone ux560z3
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
lo0:4: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1
zone ux560z4
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
nxge0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 172.25.4.2 netmask fffffc00 broadcast 172.25.7.255
ether 0:21:28:ba:9e:e4
nxge0:1: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
zone ux560z1
inet 172.25.4.3 netmask fffffc00 broadcast 172.25.7.255
nxge0:2: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
zone ux560z2
inet 172.25.4.4 netmask fffffc00 broadcast 172.25.7.255
nxge0:3: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
zone ux560z3
inet 172.25.4.5 netmask fffffc00 broadcast 172.25.7.255
nxge0:4: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
zone ux560z4
inet 172.25.4.6 netmask fffffc00 broadcast 172.25.7.255
QUESTIONS:
1. Has the bug been reported for Solaris 10 ?
2. Is a Solaris 10 patch available ?
3. Is there a work-around or other ideas to get SMTP working in a Solaris shared-ip zoned.
4. Exclusive-IP should fix it, but does that require a dedicated NIC per zone ?
Thank You,
KW

The CR you cite: 6640675
was fixed in S10 over a year ago. You'll need a contract to get the patch.

Problem with exporting devices to non-global zone

Hi,
I've problem with exporting devices to my solaris zones (i try do add support to mount /dev/lofi/* in my non-global zone).
A create cfg for my zone.
Here it is:
$ zonecfg -z sapdev info
zonename: sapdev
zonepath: /export/home/zones/sapdev
brand: native
autoboot: true
bootargs:
pool:
limitpriv: default,sys_time
scheduling-class:
ip-type: shared
fs:
dir: /sap
special: /dev/dsk/c1t44d0s0
raw: /dev/rdsk/c1t44d0s0
type: ufs
options: []
net:
address: 194.29.128.45
physical: ce0
device
match: /dev/lofi/1
device
match: /dev/rlofi/1
device
match: /dev/lofi/2
device
match: /dev/rlofi/2
attr:
name: comment
type: string
value: "This is SAP developement zone"
global# lofiadm
Block Device File
/dev/lofi/1 /root/SAP_DB2_9_LUW.iso
/dev/lofi/2 /usr/tmp/fsfile
I reboot the non-global zone, even reboot global-zone, and after that, in sapdev zone, there is no /dev/*lofi/* files.
What i do wrong? Maybe I reduce my sol 10 u4 sparc instalation too much.
Can anybody help me?
Thanks for help,
Marek

I experienced the same problem on my system Sol 10 08/07.
Normally, when the zone enters the READY state during boot, it's zoneadmd will run devfsadm -z <zone>. In my understanding this is to create the necessary device files in ZONEPATH/dev.
This worked well until recently. Now only the directories are still created.
It seems as if devfsadm -z is broken. Somebody should issue a call to sun.
As a workaround you can easily copy the device files into the zone. It is important not to copy the symbolic link but the target.
# cp /dev/lofi/1 ZONEPATH/dev/lofi
Hope this helps,
Konstantin Gremliza

Netbackup with Solaris non-global zone!

Hi,
How to install and configure netbackup into Solaris 10 non-global zone? what steps need to follow?
Thanks
Tanvir

I agree with running from the global zone. The added benefit is that if you backup the root of all zonepaths, then when you add any new non-global within that path, the new server will be automatically backed up.
We had been installing the client on each server both global and non-global in the past. On our non-global zones, /usr is not writeable but /opt is. We would symlink /usr/openv to /opt/openv from the global and then remotely install the client software from the backup master via
"/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/install_client_files ssh <client>"

Update packages for newbie in a non-global zone

Hi,
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.
Thanks a lot in advance and sorry for my english.
jaymachine

I know of patchadd -G, it is used when one has downloaded the pathch already. I was looking for an automated patch procedure. I use the java gui upadate manager in the global zone but it will not patch the Java Communications Suite installed in a sparse zone.
Sparse zones are more than really cool. I have entire comms suite installed in a zone with SMF for all the components, anything siezes up and it's a few minutes to reboot, piece of cake. Allows me to use one host server whilst all webserver / application instances are on port 80.

Using a Fibre Channel HBA with a non-global zone.

I am trying to let a non-global zone use a dual port HBA. Please note the goal is to use the HBA including the SAN devices, not just a device on the SAN. Does anyone know if and how this can be done?
[root@global:/]# more /etc/release
                       Solaris 10 8/07 s10s_u4wos_12b SPARC ...
[root@global:/]# zonecfg -z localzone info
zonename: localzone
zonepath: /zones/localzone
brand: native
autoboot: true
bootargs:
pool:
limitpriv:
scheduling-class:
ip-type: shared
net:
        address: x.x.x.x/24
        physical: qfe0
device
        match: /dev/fc/fp[0-1]
device
        match: /dev/cfg/c[1-2]
device
        match: /dev/*dsk/c[1-2]*
[root@global:/]# fcinfo hba-port
HBA Port WWN: 210000e08b083b41
        OS Device Name: /dev/cfg/c1
        Manufacturer: QLogic Corp.
        Model: QLA2342
        Firmware Version: 3.3.24
        FCode/BIOS Version: No Fcode found
        Type: N-port
        State: online
        Supported Speeds: 1Gb 2Gb
        Current Speed: 2Gb
        Node WWN: 200000e08b083b41
HBA Port WWN: 210100e08b283b41
        OS Device Name: /dev/cfg/c2
        Manufacturer: QLogic Corp.
        Model: QLA2342
        Firmware Version: 3.3.24
        FCode/BIOS Version: No Fcode found
        Type: N-port
        State: online
        Supported Speeds: 1Gb 2Gb
        Current Speed: 2Gb
        Node WWN: 200100e08b283b41
[root@localzone:dev]# ls fc
fp0 fp1
[root@localzone:dev]# ls cfg
c1 c2
[root@localzone:dev]# ls dsk | grep s0
c1t500601613021934Dd0s0
c1t500601693021934Dd0s0
c1t50060482D52D5608d0s0
c1t50060482D52D5626d0s0
c2t500601613021934Dd0s0
c2t500601693021934Dd0s0
c2t50060482D52D5608d0s0
c2t50060482D52D5626d0s0
[root@localzone:dev]# ls rdsk | grep s0
c1t500601613021934Dd0s0
c1t500601693021934Dd0s0
c1t50060482D52D5608d0s0
c1t50060482D52D5626d0s0
c2t500601613021934Dd0s0
c2t500601693021934Dd0s0
c2t50060482D52D5608d0s0
c2t50060482D52D5626d0s0
[root@localzone:dev]# fcinfo hba-port
No Adapters Found.

You cannot present devices directly to the NGZ ( What a mouth/handful of words to say/type...sheesh! What's wrong with local zones, sun?)
You can present filesystems and/or ZFS pools but not HBAs or other devices directly (AFAIK)

Oracle 10 g non-global zones with asynchronous I/O

Hi,
I note that using direct I/O (by setting the forcedirectio while
mounting the database file systems) and bypassing the file system
cache may improve database performance significantly, but this should
be done only for file systems in which database files and redo log
files exist. If direct I/O is used and there is not enough database
buffer cache, it may even decrease the performance by moving the
problem from double buffering to a lack of database buffer cache. So,
this performance tuning must be planned carefully, and the database
buffer cache should be sized properly. The direct I/O option should
not be used for other file systems used by other applications because
they still need the UFS buffer cache.
Now, I have Oracle database installed inside a non-global zone and I
see a lot of Asynchronous I/O wait warnings in the Oracle Alert log
file. Storage mount points with UFS filesystem contain the Oracle
datafiles and redo log files. In addition, two Oracle datafiles of 10
GB each reside on the local disks. The Oracle init.ora parameter to
set asynchronous I/O for Oracle database files is
FILESYSTEMIO_OPTIONS= SETALL.
Although the above parameter was set during the database installation,
the aiowait warnings don't seem to disappear.
Can I use the "forcedirectio" option at the Operating System /etc/
vfstab file for Oracle datafiles and redo log files?
Or, should I just move the Oracle database files residing on the local
disks to the external storage? Will this take care of aiowait warnings
and if yes, how? The storage is a DAS.
Regards
Sandeep

I presume you compiled php on the Sun server, was this done using gcc or the Sun One C compiler.
If the latter then you can also use the flag: --enable-nonportable-atomics when you run configure

Zfs package difference in Global and Non-Global zones

I have a T2000 hosting many zones. The Global zone and all but one Non-Global zone has 3 zfs packages installed SUNWzfskr, SUNWzfsr, SUNWzfsu). Becuase this one non-global zone is missing the zfs packages, kernel patch 120011-14 also didn't install on that single non-global zone.
I am curious, can i install SUNWzfskr, SUNWzfsr, SUNWzfsu on the non-global zone that is missing the packages?
Any ideas how to resolve the kernel patch descrepancy between the global and non-global zone?

patch 122640-05 installs the SUNWzfskr SUNWzfsr SUNWzfsu packages if they are not already installed on the system.

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]

Sharing mounts on non global zone in Solaris 10

Dear All,
We have SAP Development server installed on a non global zone in Solaris 10 based machine. We want to share /usr/sap/trans [in DEV's non global zone] on another machine's non global zone which will host Quality server. I'm sure it can be done, however since I am not OS admin unable to find out how inspite of reading some posts on internet.
Can anyone please help me out here.
regards, Sean.

We did it.
regards, Sean.

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