This chapter explains general information about using N1 Grid Service Provisioning System to provision Solaris containers. The chapter includes the following information:
The Solaris plug-in adds a Container component to N1 Grid Service Provisioning System. You use this component to create and manage Solaris 10 zones from the provisioning software.
The Solaris Zones partitioning technology is used to virtualize operating system services and to provide an isolated and secure environment for running applications. A zone is a virtualized operating system environment that is created within a single instance of the Solaris Operating System. When you create a zone, you produce an application execution environment in which processes are isolated from the rest of the system. This isolation prevents processes that are running in one zone from monitoring or affecting processes that are running in other zones. Even a process that is running with superuser credentials cannot view or affect activity in other zones.
Zones can be used on any machine that is running the Solaris 10 release. The total resource requirements of the application software running in all of the zones determines how many zones a single system can host effecitvely.. For more information about Solaris Zones, see Part II, Zones, in System Administration Guide: Solaris Containers—Resource Management and Solaris Zones.
The Solaris Plug-In includes the following items:
Main component used to create and manage zones. For more information, see Container Component.
Component that contains utility scripts for zones
Component that installs zone_util.tar file on global zones
Plan that creates zones
Plan that attaches zones
Plan that deletes zones
Plan that detaches zones
Plan that activates zones
Plan that deactivates zones
Folder that contains plans for zones
Host set for global zones
Host search for global zones
Host type for global zones
Host type for local zones
To deploy Solaris 10 zones, make sure that the following two parts of the N1 Grid Service Provisioning System are installed on the master server from which you want to deploy:
CLI (command-line interface)
Remote agent (RA)
Any host on which you intend to deploy Solaris 10 zones must meet the following requirements:
Run the Solaris 10 Operating System.
Meet the operating system requirements for hosting zones.