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System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Oracle Solaris Zones     Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Information Library
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Preface

Part I Resource Management

1.  Introduction to Solaris 10 Resource Management

Resource Management Overview

Resource Classifications

Resource Management Control Mechanisms

Constraint Mechanisms

Scheduling Mechanisms

Partitioning Mechanisms

Resource Management Configuration

Interaction With Solaris Zones

When to Use Resource Management

Server Consolidation

Supporting a Large or Varied User Population

Setting Up Resource Management (Task Map)

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

15.  Resource Control Functionality in the Solaris Management Console

Part II Zones

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.  Oracle Solaris 10 9/10: Migrating a Physical Oracle Solaris System Into a Zone (Tasks)

25.  About Packages and Patches on an Oracle Solaris System With Zones Installed (Overview)

26.  Adding and Removing Packages and Patches on an Oracle Solaris System With Zones Installed (Tasks)

27.  Oracle Solaris Zones Administration (Overview)

28.  Oracle Solaris Zones Administration (Tasks)

29.  Upgrading an Oracle Solaris 10 System That Has Installed Non-Global Zones

30.  Troubleshooting Miscellaneous Oracle Solaris Zones Problems

Part III lx Branded Zones

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)

Glossary

Index

Setting Up Resource Management (Task Map)

The following task map provides a high-level overview of the steps that are involved in setting up resource management on your system.

Task
Description
For Instructions
Identify the workloads on your system and categorize each workload by project.
Create project entries in either the /etc/project file, in the NIS map, or in the LDAP directory service.
Prioritize the workloads on your system.
Determine which applications are critical. These workloads might require preferential access to resources.
Refer to your business service goals.
Monitor real-time activity on your system.
Use performance tools to view the current resource consumption of workloads that are running on your system. You can then evaluate whether you must restrict access to a given resource or isolate particular workloads from other workloads.
Make temporary modifications to the workloads that are running on your system.
To determine which values can be altered, refer to the resource controls that are available in the Solaris system. You can update the values from the command line while the task or process is running.
Set resource controls and project attributes for every project entry in the project database or naming service project database.
Each project entry in the /etc/project file or the naming service project database can contain one or more resource controls or attributes. Resource controls constrain tasks and processes attached to that project. For each threshold value that is placed on a resource control, you can associate one or more actions to be taken when that value is reached.

You can set resource controls by using the command-line interface. Certain configuration parameters can also be set by using the Solaris Management Console.

Place an upper bound on the resource consumption of physical memory by collections of processes attached to a project.
The resource cap enforcement daemon will enforce the physical memory resource cap defined for the project's rcap.max-rss attribute in the /etc/project file.
Create resource pool configurations.
Resource pools provide a way to partition system resources, such as processors, and maintain those partitions across reboots. You can add one project.pool attribute to each entry in the /etc/project file.
Make the fair share scheduler (FSS) your default system scheduler.
Ensure that all user processes in either a single CPU system or a processor set belong to the same scheduling class.
Activate the extended accounting facility to monitor and record resource consumption on a task or process basis.
Use extended accounting data to assess current resource controls and to plan capacity requirements for future workloads. Aggregate usage on a system-wide basis can be tracked. To obtain complete usage statistics for related workloads that span more than one system, the project name can be shared across several machines.
(Optional) If you need to make additional adjustments to your configuration, you can continue to alter the values from the command line. You can alter the values while the task or process is running.
Modifications to existing tasks can be applied on a temporary basis without restarting the project. Tune the values until you are satisfied with the performance. Then, update the current values in the /etc/project file or in the naming service project database.
(Optional) Capture extended accounting data.
Write extended accounting records for active processes and active tasks. The files that are produced can be used for planning, chargeback, and billing purposes. There is also a Practical Extraction and Report Language (Perl) interface to libexacct that enables you to develop customized reporting and extraction scripts.