To Copy a Non-Global Zone

Steps

1. If the Container Manager GUI is not already open, access it as described in To Start the Container Manager GUI.

2. Select the Hosts view by selecting the Hosts tab in the navigation window.

   A list of hosts is displayed in the navigation window.

3. Select a Solaris 10 host.

4. Select the Zones tab.

5. Select the option button next to a non-global zone.

6. Click the Zone Copy button.

   The Zone Copy wizard is started.

7. Choose whether to create multiple copies of a zone on the same host or to create a copy of a zone on multiple hosts.

   • If you want to create multiple copies of a zone on the same host, select the Same host option and click Next.

     Type the number of zone copies to be created and click Next.

     Type the appropriate parameters for the target zones.

     Provide a prefix for the zone name. Numbers starting from 1 will be added to create zones with name and zone host name <prefix>_1 to <prefix>_n.

     The starting IP address is incremented by 1 to assign the IP addresses for the zones.

     The number of shares in the resource pool must be greater than 0 after calculating the following.

     (CPU shares of the current zone) — (CPU shares of the new zones * n), where n is the number of zone copies.

     Review the selections that you made for the zone and click Finish.

   • If you want to create a copy of a zone on multiple hosts, select the Multiple hosts option and click Next.

     Search for hosts using the search criteria to display a list of possible target hosts.

     Select the hosts from the Available host list.

     Type the appropriate parameters for the target zones.

     The starting IP address is incremented by 1 to assign the IP addresses for the zones.

     The resource pool is set to pool_default as the target hosts might not have a pool with the same name and available shares as that of the source zone's pool.

     Review the selections that you made for the zone and click Finish.