How to Add a ZFS Storage Pool to a Zone Cluster

Perform this procedure to add a ZFS storage pool for use by a zone cluster.

To configure a ZFS storage pool to be highly available in a zone cluster, see How to Set Up the HAStoragePlus Resource Type to Make a Local Solaris ZFS Highly Available in Sun Cluster Data Services Planning and Administration Guide for Solaris OS.

1. Become superuser on a node of the global cluster that hosts the zone cluster.

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   Perform all steps of this procedure from a node of the global zone.

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2. Create the ZFS storage pool on the global cluster.

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   Ensure that the pool is connected on shared disks that are connected to all nodes of the zone cluster.

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   See Solaris ZFS Administration Guide for procedures to create a ZFS pool.

3. Add the pool to the zone-cluster configuration.

   phys-schost# clzonecluster configure zoneclustername clzc:zoneclustername> add dataset clzc:zoneclustername:dataset> set name=ZFSpoolname clzc:zoneclustername:dataset> end clzc:zoneclustername> verify clzc:zoneclustername> commit clzc:zoneclustername> exit

4. Verify the addition of the file system.

   phys-schost# clzonecluster show -v zoneclustername

Example 7–5 Adding a ZFS Storage Pool to a Zone Cluster

The following example shows the ZFS storage pool zpool1 added to the zone cluster sczone.

phys-schost-1# clzonecluster configure sczone
clzc:sczone> add dataset
clzc:sczone:dataset> set name=zpool1
clzc:sczone:dataset> end
clzc:sczone> verify
clzc:sczone> commit
clzc:sczone> exit

phys-schost-1# clzonecluster show -v sczone
…
  Resource Name:                                dataset
    name:                                          zpool1
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Next Steps

Configure the ZFS storage pool to be highly available by using an HAStoragePlus resource. The HAStoragePlus resource manages the mounting of the file systems that are in the pool on the zone-cluster node that currently host the applications that are configured to use the file system. See Enabling Highly Available Local File Systems in Sun Cluster Data Services Planning and Administration Guide for Solaris OS.