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System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Oracle Solaris Zones |
1. Introduction to Solaris 10 Resource Management
2. Projects and Tasks (Overview)
3. Administering Projects and Tasks
4. Extended Accounting (Overview)
What's New in Extended Accounting for Solaris 10?
Using Extended Accounting on a Solaris System With Zones Installed
Extended Accounting Configuration
Commands Used With Extended Accounting
5. Administering Extended Accounting (Tasks)
6. Resource Controls (Overview)
7. Administering Resource Controls (Tasks)
8. Fair Share Scheduler (Overview)
9. Administering the Fair Share Scheduler (Tasks)
10. Physical Memory Control Using the Resource Capping Daemon (Overview)
11. Administering the Resource Capping Daemon (Tasks)
13. Creating and Administering Resource Pools (Tasks)
14. Resource Management Configuration Example
15. Resource Control Functionality in the Solaris Management Console
16. Introduction to Solaris Zones
17. Non-Global Zone Configuration (Overview)
18. Planning and Configuring Non-Global Zones (Tasks)
19. About Installing, Halting, Cloning, and Uninstalling Non-Global Zones (Overview)
20. Installing, Booting, Halting, Uninstalling, and Cloning Non-Global Zones (Tasks)
21. Non-Global Zone Login (Overview)
22. Logging In to Non-Global Zones (Tasks)
23. Moving and Migrating Non-Global Zones (Tasks)
24. Solaris 10 9/10: Migrating a Physical Solaris System Into a Zone (Tasks)
25. About Packages and Patches on a Solaris System With Zones Installed (Overview)
26. Adding and Removing Packages and Patches on a Solaris System With Zones Installed (Tasks)
27. Solaris Zones Administration (Overview)
28. Solaris Zones Administration (Tasks)
29. Upgrading a Solaris 10 System That Has Installed Non-Global Zones
30. Troubleshooting Miscellaneous Solaris Zones Problems
31. About Branded Zones and the Linux Branded Zone
32. Planning the lx Branded Zone Configuration (Overview)
33. Configuring the lx Branded Zone (Tasks)
34. About Installing, Booting, Halting, Cloning, and Uninstalling lx Branded Zones (Overview)
35. Installing, Booting, Halting, Uninstalling and Cloning lx Branded Zones (Tasks)
36. Logging In to lx Branded Zones (Tasks)
37. Moving and Migrating lx Branded Zones (Tasks)
38. Administering and Running Applications in lx Branded Zones (Tasks)
The extended accounting subsystem labels usage records with the project for which the work was done. You can also use extended accounting, in conjunction with the Internet Protocol Quality of Service (IPQoS) flow accounting module described in Chapter 36, Using Flow Accounting and Statistics Gathering (Tasks), in System Administration Guide: IP Services, to capture network flow information on a system.
Before you can apply resource management mechanisms, you must first be able to characterize the resource consumption demands that various workloads place on a system. The extended accounting facility in the Solaris Operating System provides a flexible way to record system and network resource consumption on a task or process basis, or on the basis of selectors provided by the IPQoS flowacct module. For more information, see ipqos(7IPP).
Unlike online monitoring tools, which enable you to measure system usage in real time, extended accounting enables you to examine historical usage. You can then make assessments of capacity requirements for future workloads.
With extended accounting data available, you can develop or purchase software for resource chargeback, workload monitoring, or capacity planning.