How to Create Non-Global Zone as a Physical Host in the N1 Service Provisioning System

Before You Begin

Before you can create a non-global zone host, you must first create a global zone host record and a container component variable set for the com/sun/sap/components/Container component. For more information, see the following procedures.

• How to Create a Global Zone Host Record

• How to Create Container Component Variables for a Zone Host

1. In the Common Tasks section in the N1 SPS browser interface, click SAP.

2. Click the Solaris Non-Global Zone as a Physical Host: Create link.

   The Plan Details page is displayed.

3. Click Run.

   The Plan Details Run page is displayed.

4. In the Plan Parameters section of the page, specify the target host that you want to set up as the non-global zone host.

   You can select an individual host, or all the members of a host set.

5. Specify the plan variables for your zone host creation.

   • In the Name of the Container component variable setting field, specify the container component variable set you created in How to Create Container Component Variables for a Zone Host.

   • In the Name of the local Zone field, specify a name for the non-global zone that you want to create.

   • In the Name of the pool field, specify the resource pool that you want to associate with the zone host.

6. Click Run Plan (Includes Preflight).

   The plan performs the following tasks on the physical 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.

   • Checks the status of the non-global zone.

   • Stops the non-global zone.

Next Steps

After you create the non-global zone, you must 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 Service Provisioning System 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.