How to Create Non-Global Zone as a Physical Host in the N1 Advanced Architecture

This procedure describes how to create a zone host in the N1 AA web console.

Before You Begin

Before you can create a non-global zone host, you must perform the following tasks.

• Create a zone host record in N1 Service Provisioning System.

  For more information, see How to Create a Global Zone Host Record.

• Create the container component variables for you non-global zones.

  For more information, see How to Create Container Component Variables for a Zone Host.

• Create the server group and physical host entries in the N1 Advanced Architecture for the systems on which you want to install zone hosts.

  For more information, see Sun N1 Advanced Architecture for SAP Solutions 5.2.1 User’s Guide.

1. In the N1 AA web console, click the Sun^TM N1 Advanced Architecture for SAP Solutions link in the Systems section.

   The Sun N1 Advanced Architecture for SAP Solutions page is displayed.

2. In the left pane, click the arrow for the appropriate server group.

3. Click the arrow for the Builder entry for the server group.

4. Click the Zone Provisioning link.

   The N1AA Builder - Zone Provisioning page is displayed.

   Figure 3–1 N1 AA Builder — Zone Provisioning Page

   
   

5. In the Zone name field, type the name of the non-global zone host that you want to create.

6. From the Global Zone Host drop-down menu, select the global zone on which you want to create a non-global zone host.

7. From the Zone Parameters drop-down menu, select the name of the container component variable set that you created in How to Create Container Component Variables for a Zone Host.

8. In the Zone Pool field, type the name of the resource pool that you want to associate with the non-global zone host.

   To include multiple resource pools, type the pool names, separated by the pound sign (#). For more information about using resource pools with non-global zones, see the zonecfg(1M) man page.

9. Click the Create Zone button.

   The plan performs the following tasks on the global zone host.

   • Creates a non-global zone on the host of the host type com.sun.sap#SAPHT.

   • Installs the N1 SPS Remote Agent software in the non-global zone.

   • Starts the non-global zone.

   • Adds the newly created non-global zone host record to the list of N1AA Physical Hosts.

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     Note –

     This new physical host is defined as a non-global zone host and as a non OS Provisionable host.

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   • Checks the status of the non-global zone.

   • Stops the non-global zone.

Next Steps

After you create the non-global zone host, perform the following tasks.

• Start the non-global zone to bring the non-global zone online. For more information, see How to Start a Non-Global Zone on a Physical Host.

• Based on your business needs, you can create a Logical Host or High Availability Storage component for the non-global zone. When you create the Logical Host or High Availability Storage component, you must not change the default value of the globalZoneHostName. For more information, see Sun N1 Service Provisioning System User’s Guide for SAP Plug-In 1.0.

• After you create the Logical Host or Storage component for this non-global zone, you can provision SAP resources into this non-global zone. For more information, see Sun N1 Service Provisioning System User’s Guide for SAP Plug-In 1.0.

Troubleshooting

If the N1 AA web console reports that the zone host creation plan failed, check the operating system to verify that the non-global zone was not indeed created. If the non-global zone is installed and configured on the target host, delete the non-global zone with the zonecfg delete command, then recreate the zone host in SPS. For more information, see the zonecfg(1M) man page.