Installation in Solaris Zones

This section addresses what to consider when installing Directory Server Enterprise Edition in a Solaris zone.

Global and full local Solaris zones present Directory Server Enterprise Edition software with complete systems. Directory Server Enterprise Edition software within a full local zone, as within the global zone, runs as if the zone were an independent physical system. The software does not share services or file locations with other zones. In global zones, and in full local zones, you therefore install as if you were on an independent system.

In sparse zones, you can install some services to be used in system-wide fashion. Single instances of Java Enterprise System common component services can therefore be used by multiple Java ES server instances. For example, Directory Server Enterprise Edition software in sparse zones can use the same Common Agent Container and Java ES Monitoring Framework installed in the global zone. You must, however, install the system-wide services before you can complete installation of sparse zone software that depends on the system-wide services.

Directory Server Enterprise Edition does not, however, require you to use system-wide services when you install in a sparse zone. When you install self-contained software from the zip distribution, you also install the common component services in the sparse zone. Therefore, zip distribution installations in sparse zones resemble installations on independent systems.

The following table outlines constraints for Directory Server Enterprise Edition installations, which pertain essentially to installations in sparse zones.

For details about installation from the Java Enterprise System distribution in sparse zones, see the Java Enterprise System documentation, http://docs.sun.com/coll/1286.2.