As you know there is no direct method to upgrade the solaris 10 to solaris 11, most of the clients would like to run their existing solaris 10 zones as branded zone. As of solaris 10 10 09, when a zone stops, the default route is not deleted. System administration for the solaris 10 os part 1 sa200. If you dont have a solaris setup to work,just install solaris as guest operating system on vmware workstations and get a hands on experience. Oracle solaris zones, oracle solaris 10 zones, and resource man all of those allow different patch levels in the guest. Jun 10, 2012 zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris. Every process has a unique identifier number known as process id. The student should have completed the solaris 10 system administration part 1 course or should have five months of experience administering the solaris operating system. Efficient resource utilization is the main goal of this technology. A presentation on installing and configuring solaris 10 zones. Zone administration install and configure non global zone. Expert oracle university instructors will help you develop the skills and knowledge required to administer oracle solaris zones server virtualization technology. After performing system recovery of a solaris 10 global zone, all nonglobal zones will start with no additional steps. Containers are an operatingsystemlevel virtualization facility, meaning that the os itself provides the illusion of multiple independent systems, each with its own ip address and file system, all based on the same base kernel.
The zone looks and feel like an independent stand alone solaris to a normal user administrator for the most part. System administration for the solaris 10 os part 1 sa200s10 duration. Solaris tm zones and solaris resource controls combine to create solaris tm containers. To view a list and brief status information about running zones, use the following command from the global zone. Default routes on the same datalink and ip subnet are shared across nonglobal zones. Zfs has integrated volume management, preserves the highest levels of data integrity and includes a wide variety of data services such as data compression, raid, and data encryption. Now that we know how to create nonglobal zones in solaris, its probably time to learn some basics of zones configuration. The course focuses on topics required to help solaris 10 administrators make the move from solaris 10 to solaris 11. August 2009 ibm lotus domino in solaris 10 zones sun microsystems, inc. Service management facility was first introduced in solaris 10 for managing system and application services.
Other learning articles that you may like to read latest articlesinformation centerslinux adminsolaris adminvxvm adminvcs admincareer guidancescriptingstorage adminquick referencelatest articles information centers linux admin solaris admin vxvm admin vcs admin career guidance scripting storage admin quick reference free courses we offer linux administration. The zoneadm command can be used to list active or running zones. How to migrate solaris 10 zones to solaris 11 as branded zone. Creating and using oracle solaris zones oracle docs. Getting started with solaris 10 must to know keywords. Zone states configured configuration has been completed and storage has been committed. This is an advanced course in solaris 11 system administration. Jan 24, 2015 traditionally we will use lsof command to determine what process is using the particular port. Youll understand the issues associated with administering solaris zones in a real world environment.
May 10, 20 solaris 10 interview questions may 10, 20 by lingeswaran r 8 comments here is the basic solaris interview questions which are commonly asked in solaris l1 or l2 level 1 or l2 interviews. When logged as root the global zone, the administrator can monitor and control. Migrate an oracle solaris 10 global zone to oracle solaris 11 p2v 450 prepare an. I would like to move a solaris 10 sparc based system to run in a zone. Before kick starting the solaris study lets be aware of few important keywords and facts about the solaris os.
Use it as a cheat sheet on working with solaris 10 boxes. A solaris zone is a partitioned virtual os environment working in a solaris os space. How to configure a solaris 10 zones and configure resources like memory, cpu, file system, disk etc. May 24, 2006 how to get started with ibm websphere application server on solaris 10 and zones page 1. Solaris 11 zones offer the best of solaris 10 wholeroot zones and sparseroot zones, and offer an array of new features that make zones even more flexible and powerful. I am new to solaris 10 at least to using zones on it i have just been handed a bunch of servers with zones already created. Solaris 10 operating system product library documentation. If a nonglobal zone is on the same datalink and subnet as the global zone, default routes configured for one zone will apply for all other zones on that datalink and ip subnet. Abstract server consolidation, which allows multiple workloads to run on the same system, has. Youll learn the advantages of using zones, how to implement zones and how to manage containers. Configuring network file system in detail the network file system nfs is a clientserver service that lets users view, store, and update.
Branded zones these are solaris 8 or solaris 9 zones on the solaris 10 global zones. Containers, solaris 10, virtualisation, zones solaris 10 zone survival guide by robert chase original. Solaris 10 zones support posted on february 20, 2009 by lee sutton livecycle product management confirms that general support for solaris 10 zones has been added with livecycle es update 1 service pack 1 version 8. Solaris 11 global zone w solaris 10 containers oracle solaris 10 zones oracle solaris administration. Comparing solaris 11 zones to solaris 10 zones oracle. Pdf solaris administration matrix of oracle solaris management tools and supported releases. Solaris 10 zones aka n1 grid containers, nka solaris. Vnic will need to be configured by the zone administrator. This allows running applications on the newest hardware platforms. I set the iptypeexclusive as described here solaris 10 807. Pdf solaris administration pdf solaris administration download.
Solaris 10 operating system solaris 10 106 solaris 10. Solaris 10 nic will be configured when the zone is installed and booted the oracle solaris 11 anet. System administration guide oracle solaris zones oracle solaris 10. Both of these give you unparalleled power to dig your fingers into the system, but using. Zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris. Solaris do not support zones however the zone s themselves can run older versions of solaris in addition to linux. Lists server resources, including bindings, constraints, devices, services, and configurations for logical domains.
Common system configuration tasks have changed in oracle solaris 11 with the service mana gement facility smf configuration repository being used to store configuration data. Creating and using oracle solaris 10 zones oracle docs. Zones can be used on any machine that runs the oracle solaris 10 or later release. What are the types of zones whole root zone, sparse root zone, global zone, nonglobal zone, big zone, small zone.
Dtrace and mdb techniques for solaris 10 and opensolaris paperback pdf. Solaris system management agent administration guide. The solaris tm 10 containers administration course provides a practical, handson, guided experience working with suns virtualization capabilities, collectively known as solaris containers. Global zone is the traditional os environment and is where solaris os is installed. Create and install nonglobal zones by ramdev published may 5, 2011 updated july 2, 2015 for this example, we will use devdskc0t1d0s0 and devdskc0t1d0s3 for the root and data areas respectively. Once you have a nonglobal zone installed or running on a solaris 10 installation, connecting to the console of the zone is often useful. Scsa 200 and scsa 202 exam material included with clear explanation. Feature descriptions for solaris 10 management tools 24. A process is a program running or being executed on the computer. The below script will help you to find what process is occupying the specific port on solaris servers and this script will be very useful on solaris zones.
The global administrator and the zone administrator. D75929 oracle solaris 11 zones administration compueducacion. As you know there is no direct method to upgrade the solaris 10 to solaris 11, most of the clients would like to run their existing solaris 10 zones as branded zone under solaris 11 without upgrading the guest operating system for time being. Albert leigh solution architect client solutions sun microsystems, inc. Example of fully configuring a solaris 10 zone for starters, lets have a look at the full. Solaris containersresource management and solaris zones sun microsystems but it doesnt work. Solaris 10 zones aka n1 grid containers, nka solaris containers harry j. Instructions provided in this tutorial have been validated on the solaris 10 508 release. Tutorial solaris zones administration operating systems and. Jun 26, 2006 solaris containers technology architecture guide pdf. A beginners guide to service management facility smf in solaris. This course teaches the student how to administer zones containers in the solaris 10 operating environment. Introduction to oracle solaris 10 zones oracle solaris.
This course gives you direct experience with the most. In solaris 10, there was some support for solaris zones running an instance of linux, but it didnt seem to attract an audience. Solaris zones, oracle solaris 10 containers, and resource management. Install the solaris10 branded zone oracle solaris 11. Another exception is branded zones which never get packages or patches from the global zone. Oracle solaris tunable parameters reference manual. Posted march 24, 2005 by quinn mchenry in solaris system administration. Comparing solaris 11 zones to solaris 10 zones oracle jeff. Solaris is a nonfree unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. Configuring a zone with minimal settings let us create a new zone with a minimal resources and settings required to get it up and running. Another zone could be set up for testing and staging new applications prior to deployment on the production servers. Ports management in solaris 10 zones oracle community.
A delayed reconfiguration operation blocks configuration operations on all other domains. Designed for both novice and experienced administrators, the course will cover all exam objectives for the 1z0821 exam, including installing solaris 11, the image packaging system, administering oracle solaris zones, the zfs file system, networking, controlling access to systems and files, and managing users. For endusers these environments look just like separate abstract machines with solaris 10 installed on them. The files and directories used to managetroubleshoot and configure smf are. Exclusiveip nonglobal zones system administration guide. Oracle solaris 11 system administration exam 1z0821 udemy. Most work is done with zonecfg which has been mentioned in my solaris zones. I would like to use one of them in my non global zone. In oracle solaris 10, zones was introduced which gave us an ability to create isolated environments for applications that can run on a single machine. The oracle solaris 11 zones administration training is an advanced course offering that builds on oracle solaris 11 system administration courses.
Patch zone non global on solaris 10 oracle community. This replaces the legacy init scripts and other startup scripts. Solaris zone of solaris 10 operating system function. Solaris 11 zones are slightly different from solaris 10 zones. Installation and administration of a branded zone ug branded zones are supported since solaris 10 807. Oracle introduced many utilities and new features in solaris 11 local zones. All system operations such as installations, startups and shutdowns are done in the global zone.
In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris. Changes may be required to replicate the provided scenarios on solaris releases other than 10 508. The former approach means that the newly created nonglobal zones root filesystem will only partially consist of actually. The administrator of the global zone should be able to. System administrators can patch a system image rapidly without impacting the boot. This paper introduces solaris zones zones, a fully realized solution for server. How to create and configure solaris 10 zones the geek diary. Startingthesolarismanagementconsole 46 howtostarttheconsoleassuperuserorasarole46.
Apr 09, 2014 if you are planning to move the solaris 10 zones to solaris 11 global zones, this step by step procedure will help you. Introduction the solaristm 10 operating system provides a number of virtualization technologies collectively known as solaris containers, including the encapsulation technology called zones. This subcommand can be used only when a domain is inactive. The former can achieve the goals of the latter, and they also offer features not found in solaris 10 zones.
Solaris 11 has added a lot of new features to the zones technology. The net result was that solaris 10, and especially the concept of zones, failed to get a. Solaris live upgrade software enables the operating system to continue to run while upgrades, patch installations, or routine maintenance operations are performed. The course teaches skills which build on current solaris 10 system administration skills ie.
Oracle solaris administration oracle solaris zones. To connect to the console of a solaris 10 zone called testzone. This provides the same control over the zone as connecting to the console of a physical server running solaris. A zone is the implementation of virtualization within the solaris oe. View and download sun microsystems solaris 10 manual online. In the oracle solaris 10 guest domain it is possible to run any combination of oracle solaris 8, oracle solaris 9, and oracle solaris 10 containers zones. Create a sharedip zone 447 migrate an oracle solaris 10 global zone to oracle solaris 11 p2v 450 prepare an oracle solaris 10 global zone for migration 450 create a solaris 10 brand zone 450 back up a zone 453 recover a zone 454 delegated zone administration 455 summary 455 chapter 7 user and security administration 457. How to get started with ibm websphere application server on. Solaris containers cheat sheet this a quick cheat sheet of the commands that can be used when using zones containers, for a more complete guide see solaris zones. File systems basic zfs administration oracle solaris zfs is the default root file system on oracle solaris 11. Solaris 10 s zone partitioning technology can be used to create local zones that behave like virtual servers.
Oracle tried to make zone as completely independent virtual machines and they succeed on that. Solaris 10 zones and networking common considerations. Solaris, linux, redhat, aix, hpux, oracle linux, ubuntu, training. As you probably know, there are two such models in solaris 10. Solaris containers including solaris zones is an implementation of operating systemlevel virtualization technology for x86 and sparc systems, first released publicly in february 2004 in build 51 beta of solaris 10, and subsequently in the first full release of solaris 10, 2005. Administering solaris zones oraccertprs8oca oracle solaris 11 system administration exam gde exam1z0821 ernest 1775749 system instances. How to migrate solaris 10 zones to solaris 11 as branded.
About zones in its simple form, a zone is a virtual operating system environment created within a single instance of the solaris operating system. Tutorial solaris zones administration docdeveloppement. If you ally obsession such a referred solaris 10 system administration exam prep. It does not include any oracle database but includes customized apache, modified sendmail and many home grown applications, few of them are owned by root and call setuid. Solaris for x86 contains the brand lx which allows a linux environment to be made available in a zone. Solaris has included containers also called zones since solaris 10 was released in 2005. Let us get started and see how we can create a zone in solaris. Will there be a problem with the vendor requests to me, it is about independent port management within solaris 10 zones thanks in advance. May 01, 2009 today ill tell you about root filesystem models for nonglobal zones in solaris.
Tutorial solaris zones administration exercise for server operating systems fahad khalid 7182011 disclaimer. General administration install nlsadm for easier management of national language properties. Jun 12, 20 solaris 11 zones are slightly different from solaris 10 zones. The system is on a sunfire 880 running solaris 10 update 7. Sun r certified system administrator for solaris tm 10. Svr4 packaging and patching in oracle solaris 10 zones. Zones present a number of interesting and new challenges. I had condensed the guides found in the sun documentation site and wrote two easy quick reference guides for both basic and advanced administration. A zone in solaris 10 should be thought of as a cloned instance of solaris running within a master global instance of solaris 10. If you are planning to move the solaris 10 zones to solaris 11 global zones, this step by step procedure will help you.
Many of you have already heard about solaris 10 zones its a virtualization technology which allows you to create isolated and secure environments for running applications. With solaris 10, patching the global zone will install the patches on all zones by default, unless the affected package isnt installed on the target zone or you explicitly ask to install the patch on the global zone only g. This is an excerpt from chapter 17, administering solaris zones, of oracle solaris 11 system administration exam guide by michael ernest mcgrawhill professional. The book covers the topics resource management, oracle solaris zones, and oracle solaris 10 zones solaris10 branded zones. Oracle solaris containersresource management and oracle solaris zones.
430 125 355 1184 1093 834 1380 1167 987 899 82 989 1549 1054 488 1056 760 1086 1420 410 1534 1371 578 1102 701 1336 595 1181 1157 745 1267 1325 1385 1515 197 315 1082 60 889 996 269 1112 1256