How to Install and Configure a Zone

For complete information about installing a zone refer to System Administration Guide: Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Solaris Zones.

Before You Begin

Determine the following requirements for the deployment of the zone with Sun Cluster:

• The number of Solaris Zone instances that are to be deployed.

• The cluster file system will be used by each Solaris Zone instance.

Steps

1. Install the zone.

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   Note –

   If the zone that you are installing is to become a failover zone, the zone's zone path must specify a highly available local file system. The file system must be managed by the SUNW.HAStoragePlus resource that you created in Step 3.

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2. Log in to the zone's console.

   # zlogin -C zone

   You are prompted to configure the zone.

3. Follow the prompts to configure the zone.

   After you configure the zone has been created, an entry will exist in the /etc/zones/index file.

4. Disconnect from the zone`s console.

   Use the escape sequence that you defined for the zone. If you did not define an escape sequence, use the default escape sequence as follows:

   # ~.

5. Determine the new zone's index entry by listing the contents of the /etc/zones/index.

   You need the new zone's index entry for How to Enable a Zone to Run in a Failover Configuration

   # cat /etc/zones/index

6. Make the zone available to all nodes in the cluster.

   Perform the following steps on each cluster node.

   1. Log in to each cluster node.

   2. To prevent a loss of data, create a backup copy of the /etc/zones/index file.

      # cd /etc/zones # cp index index_backup

   3. Using a plain text editor, add the entry for the zone to the/etc/zones/index file on the node.

   4. Copy the zone.xml file to the /etc/zones/index directory on the node.

      # rcp zone-install-node:/etc/zones/zonexml .