Installing and Administering Solaris Container Manager 3.6.1

Preface

The Installing and Administering Solaris Container Manager 3.6.1 guide describes how to use Container Manager to create, use, and manage containers.

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The 1.0 version of this product was called N1^TM Grid Console - Container Manager.

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The Solaris^TM 10 release supports systems that use the SPARC® and x86 families of processor architectures: UltraSPARC®, SPARC64, AMD64, Pentium, and Xeon EM64T. The supported systems appear in the Solaris 10 Hardware Compatibility List at http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl. This document cites any implementation differences between the platform types.

In this document the term “x86” refers to 64-bit and 32-bit systems manufactured using processors compatible with the AMD64 or Intel Xeon/Pentium product families. For supported systems, see the Solaris 10 Hardware Compatibility List.

Who Should Use This Book

The document is intended for users familiar with the Sun^TM Management Center product. Therefore, many terms and concepts related to the Sun Management Center are not explained here. For more information about Sun Management Center, refer to Sun Management Center 3.6.1 Installation and Configuration Guide and Sun Management Center 3.6.1 User’s Guide.

How This Book Is Organized

This document describes how to install and use the Container Manager software.

Chapter 1, Introduction to Solaris Container Manager 3.6.1 introduces Container Manager.

Chapter 2, Container Manager Installation and Setup provides instructions for installation and setup.

Chapter 3, About Containers and Starting the Product describes the container model and explains how to start the product.

Chapter 4, Managing Projects provides instructions for creating, using, and managing projects.

Chapter 5, Managing Resource Pools describes how to create, use, and manage resource pools.

Chapter 6, Managing Zones describes how to create, use, and manage zones.

Chapter 7, Managing Alarms describes how to use alarms.

Chapter 8, Creating Reports and Using Extended Accounting Data describes how to create reports.

Appendix A, Installing At the Command Line provides instructions for installation and setup by using the command line.

Glossary is a list of words and phrases found in this book and their definitions.

Related Information

The following documents provide information about concepts that are useful when using the Container Manager software.

Solaris Resource Manager 1.3 System Administration Guide.
System Administration Guide: Network Services.
System Administration Guide: Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Solaris Zones.
Sun Blueprints book, Consolidation in the Data Center, by David Hornby and Ken Pepple.
Sun white paper Consolidating Oracle RDBMS Instances Using Solaris Resource Manager Software.

The latest information about Sun Management Center software and add-on products is available at http://www.sun.com/solaris/sunmanagementcenter.

Accessing Sun Documentation Online

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Ordering Sun Documentation

Sun Microsystems offers select product documentation in print. For a list of documents and how to order them, see “Buy printed documentation” at http://docs.sun.com.

Typographic Conventions

The following table describes the typographic changes that are used in this book.

Table P–1 Typographic Conventions


Typeface or Symbol	Meaning	Example
`AaBbCc123`	The names of commands, files, and directories, and onscreen computer output	Edit your `.login` file. Use `ls -a` to list all files. `machine_name% you have mail.`
`AaBbCc123`	What you type, contrasted with onscreen computer output	`machine_name%` `su` `Password:`
`AaBbCc123`	Command-line placeholder: replace with a real name or value	The command to remove a file is `rm` `filename`.
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new terms, and terms to be emphasized	Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. Perform a patch analysis. Do not save the file. [Note that some emphasized items appear bold online.]

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.

Table P–2 Shell Prompts


Shell	Prompt
C shell prompt	`machine_name%`
C shell superuser prompt	`machine_name#`
Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt	`$`
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt	`#`