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System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris Zones, Oracle Solaris 10 Containers, and Resource Management     Oracle Solaris 11 Express 11/10
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Preface

Part I Oracle Solaris Resource Management

1.  Introduction to Resource Management

2.  Projects and Tasks (Overview)

3.  Administering Projects and Tasks

4.  Extended Accounting (Overview)

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)

12.  Resource Pools (Overview)

13.  Creating and Administering Resource Pools (Tasks)

14.  Resource Management Configuration Example

Part II Oracle Solaris Zones

15.  Introduction to Oracle Solaris Zones

16.  Non-Global Zone Configuration (Overview)

17.  Planning and Configuring Non-Global Zones (Tasks)

18.  About Installing, Halting, Uninstalling, and Cloning Non-Global Zones (Overview)

19.  Installing, Booting, Halting, Uninstalling, and Cloning Non-Global Zones (Tasks)

Zone Installation (Task Map)

Installing and Booting Zones

(Optional) How to Verify a Configured Zone Before It Is Installed

How to Install a Configured Zone

How to Obtain the UUID of an Installed Non-Global Zone

How to Mark an Installed Non-Global Zone Incomplete

(Optional) How to Transition the Installed Zone to the Ready State

How to Boot a Zone

How to Boot a Zone in Single-User Mode

Where to Go From Here

Halting, Rebooting, Uninstalling, Cloning, and Deleting Non-Global Zones (Task Map)

Halting, Rebooting, and Uninstalling Zones

How to Halt a Zone

How to Reboot a Zone

How to Uninstall a Zone

Cloning a Non-Global Zone on the Same System

How to Clone a Zone

How to Clone a Zone from an Existing Snapshot

Deleting a Non-Global Zone From the System

How to Remove a Non-Global Zone

20.  Non-Global Zone Login (Overview)

21.  Logging In to Non-Global Zones (Tasks)

22.  Moving and Migrating Non-Global Zones (Tasks)

23.  About Packages on an Oracle Solaris 11 Express System With Zones Installed

24.  Oracle Solaris Zones Administration (Overview)

25.  Administering Oracle Solaris Zones (Tasks)

26.  Troubleshooting Miscellaneous Oracle Solaris Zones Problems

Part III Oracle Solaris 10 Zones

27.  Introduction to Oracle Solaris 10 Zones

28.  Assessing an Oracle Solaris 10 System and Creating an Archive

29.  (Optional) Migrating an Oracle Solaris 10 native Non-Global Zone Into an Oracle Solaris 10 Container

30.  Configuring the solaris10 Branded Zone

31.  Installing the solaris10 Branded Zone

32.  Booting a Zone and Zone Migration

33.  solaris10 Branded Zone Login and Post-Installation Configuration

Glossary

Index

Halting, Rebooting, and Uninstalling Zones

How to Halt a Zone

The halt procedure is used to remove both the application environment and the virtual platform for a zone. To cleanly shut down a zone, see How to Use zlogin to Shut Down a Zone.

You must be the global administrator or a user with appropriate authorizations in the global zone to perform this procedure.

  1. Be superuser, or have equivalent authorizations.

    For more information about roles, see Configuring and Using RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

  2. List the zones running on the system.
    global# zoneadm list -v

    You will see a display that is similar to the following:

    ID  NAME     STATUS       PATH                           BRAND      IP
     0  global   running      /                              ipkg       shared
     1  my-zone  running      /zones/my-zone                 ipkg       shared
  3. Use the zoneadm command with the -z option, the name of the zone, for example, my-zone, and the halt subcommand to halt the given zone.
    global# zoneadm -z my-zone halt
  4. List the zones on the system again, to verify that my-zone has been halted.
    global# zoneadm list -iv

    You will see a display that is similar to the following:

    ID  NAME     STATUS       PATH                           BRAND      IP
     0  global   running      /                              ipkg       shared
     -  my-zone  installed    /zones/my-zone                 ipkg       shared
  5. Boot the zone if you want to restart it.
    global# zoneadm -z my-zone boot
Troubleshooting

If the zone does not halt properly, see Zone Does Not Halt for troubleshooting tips.

How to Reboot a Zone

You must be the global administrator or a user with appropriate authorizations in the global zone to perform this procedure.

  1. Be superuser, or have equivalent authorizations.

    For more information about roles, see Configuring and Using RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

  2. List the zones running on the system.
    global# zoneadm list -v

    You will see a display that is similar to the following:

    ID  NAME     STATUS       PATH                           BRAND      IP
     0  global   running      /                              ipkg       shared
     1  my-zone  running      /zones/my-zone                 ipkg       shared
  3. Use the zoneadm command with the -z reboot option to reboot the zone my-zone.
    global# zoneadm -z my-zone reboot
  4. List the zones on the system again to verify that my-zone has been rebooted.
    global# zoneadm list -v

    You will see a display that is similar to the following:

    ID  NAME     STATUS       PATH                           BRAND      IP
     0  global   running      /                              ipkg       shared
     2  my-zone  running      /zones/my-zone                 ipkg       shared

    Tip - Note that the zone ID for my-zone has changed. The zone ID generally changes after a reboot.


How to Uninstall a Zone


Caution

Caution - Use this procedure with caution. The action of removing all of the files in the zone's root file system is irreversible.


The zone cannot be in the running state. The uninstall operation is invalid for running zones.

You must be the global administrator or a user with appropriate authorizations in the global zone to perform this procedure.

  1. Be superuser, or have equivalent authorizations.

    For more information about roles, see Configuring and Using RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

  2. List the zones on the system.
    global# zoneadm list -v

    You will see a display that is similar to the following:

    ID  NAME     STATUS       PATH                           BRAND      IP
     0  global   running      /                              ipkg       shared
     -  my-zone  installed    /zones/my-zone                 ipkg       shared
  3. Use the zoneadm command with the -z uninstall option to remove the zone my-zone.

    You can also use the -F option to force the action. If this option is not specified, the system will prompt for confirmation.

    global# zoneadm -z my-zone uninstall -F

    Note that when you uninstall a zone that has its own ZFS file system for the zonepath, the ZFS file system is destroyed.

  4. List the zones on the system again, to verify that my-zone is no longer listed.
    global# zoneadm list -iv

    You will see a display that is similar to the following:

    ID  NAME     STATUS       PATH                           BRAND      IP
     0  global   running      /                              ipkg       shared
Troubleshooting

If a zone uninstall is interrupted, the zone is left in the incomplete state. Use the zoneadm uninstall command to reset the zone to the configured state.

Use the uninstall command with caution because the action is irreversible.