How to Create a Solaris Local Zone

Steps

1. In the left control panel, under Common Tasks, click the Sun Solaris icon.

2. Click the Solaris Containers: Create and Manage link.

3. Click the Run action next to Create: Install.

4. Select the target host on which to create the local zone.

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   Note –

   The target host must be a member of the com.sun.solaris#global_zones host set.

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5. Select the local zone host name from the Plan Variables settings.

   If desired local zone names are not present, you can create new zone names. To create new zone names, follow these steps:

   1. Click Select From List in the plan variable settings table.

   2. In the Variable Setting window, click Create Set

   3. Type the new zone set name in the New Set Name field.

   4. Click the box next to Zone Name prompt and type a new zone name.

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      Note –

      Zone names become network Zone Host Names during local zone creation. Zone Host Names should resolve to matching available local network IP addresses.

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   5. Determine if you want the local zone file system to be sparse or full.

      A sparse local zone file system shares the /lib, /sbin, /platform, and /usr directories with the global zone. If the local zone will run applications that must install files into one of these directories, then install the local zone with a full file system. The full local zone file system does not share directories with the global zone.

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      Note –

      The provisioning system installs the local zone file system as sparse by default. Install a full local zone file system by overriding the default.

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6. Click Run Plan (includes preflight).