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System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris Zones, Oracle Solaris 10 Containers, and Resource Management Oracle Solaris 11 Express 11/10 |
Part I Oracle Solaris Resource Management
1. Introduction to Resource Management
2. Projects and Tasks (Overview)
3. Administering Projects and Tasks
4. Extended Accounting (Overview)
5. Administering Extended Accounting (Tasks)
6. Resource Controls (Overview)
7. Administering Resource Controls (Tasks)
8. Fair Share Scheduler (Overview)
9. Administering the Fair Share Scheduler (Tasks)
10. Physical Memory Control Using the Resource Capping Daemon (Overview)
11. Administering the Resource Capping Daemon (Tasks)
Introduction to Resource Pools
Introduction to Dynamic Resource Pools
About Enabling and Disabling Resource Pools and Dynamic Resource Pools
Implementing Pools on a System
SPARC: Dynamic Reconfiguration Operations and Resource Pools
Directly Manipulating the Dynamic Configuration
Managing Dynamic Resource Pools
Configuration Constraints and Objectives
pset.min Property and pset.max Property Constraints
cpu.pinned Property Constraint
pool.importance Property Constraint
Configuration Objectives Example
poold Features That Can Be Configured
Configuration Information Logging
Monitoring Information Logging
Optimization Information Logging
How Dynamic Resource Allocation Works
Determining Available Resources
Identifying a Resource Shortage
Determining Resource Utilization
Identifying Control Violations
Determining Appropriate Remedial Action
Using poolstat to Monitor the Pools Facility and Resource Utilization
Tuning poolstat Operation Intervals
Commands Used With the Resource Pools Facility
13. Creating and Administering Resource Pools (Tasks)
14. Resource Management Configuration Example
15. Introduction to Oracle Solaris Zones
16. Non-Global Zone Configuration (Overview)
17. Planning and Configuring Non-Global Zones (Tasks)
18. About Installing, Halting, Uninstalling, and Cloning Non-Global Zones (Overview)
19. Installing, Booting, Halting, Uninstalling, and Cloning Non-Global Zones (Tasks)
20. Non-Global Zone Login (Overview)
21. Logging In to Non-Global Zones (Tasks)
22. Moving and Migrating Non-Global Zones (Tasks)
23. About Packages on an Oracle Solaris 11 Express System With Zones Installed
24. Oracle Solaris Zones Administration (Overview)
25. Administering Oracle Solaris Zones (Tasks)
26. Troubleshooting Miscellaneous Oracle Solaris Zones Problems
Part III Oracle Solaris 10 Zones
27. Introduction to Oracle Solaris 10 Zones
28. Assessing an Oracle Solaris 10 System and Creating an Archive
30. Configuring the solaris10 Branded Zone
31. Installing the solaris10 Branded Zone
32. Booting a Zone and Zone Migration
33. solaris10 Branded Zone Login and Post-Installation Configuration
Resource pools offer a versatile mechanism that can be applied to many administrative scenarios.
Use pools functionality to split a server into two pools. One pool is used for login sessions and interactive work by timesharing users. The other pool is used for jobs that are submitted through the batch system.
Partition the resources for interactive applications in accordance with the applications' requirements.
Set user expectations.
You might initially deploy a machine that is running only a fraction of the services that the machine is ultimately expected to deliver. User difficulties can occur if reservation-based resource management mechanisms are not established when the machine comes online.
For example, the fair share scheduler optimizes CPU utilization. The response times for a machine that is running only one application can be misleadingly fast. Users will not see these response times with multiple applications loaded. By using separate pools for each application, you can place a ceiling on the number of CPUs available to each application before you deploy all applications.
Partition a server that supports large user populations. Server partitioning provides an isolation mechanism that leads to a more predictable per-user response.
By dividing users into groups that bind to separate pools, and using the fair share scheduling (FSS) facility, you can tune CPU allocations to favor sets of users that have priority. This assignment can be based on user role, accounting chargeback, and so forth.
Use resource pools to adjust to changing demand.
Your site might experience predictable shifts in workload demand over long periods of time, such as monthly, quarterly, or annual cycles. If your site experiences these shifts, you can alternate between multiple pools configurations by invoking pooladm from a cron job. (See Resource Pools Framework.)
Create a real-time pool by using the RT scheduler and designated processor resources.
Enforce system goals that you establish.
Use the automated pools daemon feature to identify available resources and then monitor workloads to detect when your specified objectives are no longer being satisfied. The daemon can take corrective action if possible, or the condition can be logged.