What's New in the Sun N1 Advanced Architecture for SAP Solutions 5.2 Update 2 Release

Planning Your Configuration to Support Solaris Zones

With the N1 SPS SAP plug-in version 1.3, you can manage Solaris 10 non-global zones as either zone hosts or zone resources. Use the following matrix to help you decide on which approach to take.

Task	Supported by Zone Hosts	Supported by Zone Resources
Creating non-global zones	Yes	Yes
Importing existing non-global zones into N1 Service Provisioning System	Yes	Yes
Deploying SAP resources on a non-global zone	Yes	No
Deploying non-global zones with other SAP resources on a global zone	No	Yes
Managing applications running in a non-global zone	Yes	No
Starting and stopping a non-global zone	Yes	Yes
Viewing online and offline status of a non-global zone	No	Yes
Moving a non-global zone between systems in N1 Advanced Architecture	No	Yes

Preparing Your Systems for Zones Support in N1 Service Provisioning System and N1 Advanced Architecture

Before you can create a non-global zone in your N1 SPS environment, the name of the non-global zone must be a resolvable name, paired with an IP address, on both the N1 SPS master server and the target host onto which you plan to deploy the non-global zone. You can specify the non-global zone name and IP address in the following locations.

LDAP server
NIS name service
NIS+ name service
DNS name server
/etc/hosts file

For more information, see System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP) and System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (NIS+).