Zone Install and Zone Boot Does Not Work After Sun Cluster Install (6211453) (Sun Cluster 3.1 8/05 Release Notes for Solaris OS)

Sun Cluster 3.1 8/05 Release Notes for Solaris OS

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Zone Install and Zone Boot Does Not Work After Sun Cluster Install (6211453)

Problem Summary: Sun Cluster software installation adds exclude: lofs to /etc/system. Because lofs is critical to the function of zones, both zone install and zone boot fail.

Workaround: Before attempting to create any zones, perform the following procedure.

How to Run Zone Install and Zone Boot After a Sun Cluster Installation

Steps

If you are running Sun Cluster HA for NFS, exclude from the automounter map all files that are part of the highly available local file system that is exported by the NFS server.

On each cluster node, edit the /etc/system file to remove any exclude: lofs lines.

Reboot the cluster.