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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)
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)
Zone Installation and Administration Concepts
About Halting, Rebooting, and Uninstalling Zones
About Cloning Non-Global Zones
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
This section applies to initial zone construction, and not to the cloning of existing zones.
After you have configured a non-global zone, you should verify that the zone can be installed safely on your system's configuration. You can then install the zone. The files needed for the zone's root file system are installed by the system under the zone's root path.
A non-global zone is installed with the limited networking configuration (generic_limited_net.xml). Network configuration types are described in Chapter 12, Managing Services (Tasks), in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration. The zone administrator can switch the zone to the open, traditional networking configuration (generic_open.xml) by using the netservices command. Specific services can be enabled or disabled by using SMF commands. For more information, see Switching the Zone to a Different Networking Service Configuration or Enabling a Service.
A successfully installed zone is ready for booting and initial login.
Data from the following are not referenced or copied when a zone is installed:
Non-installed packages
Data on CDs and DVDs
Network installation images
In addition, the following types of information, if present in the global zone, are not copied into a zone that is being installed:
New or changed users in the /etc/passwd file
New or changed groups in the /etc/group file
Configurations for networking services such as DHCP address assignment
Customizations for networking services such as UUCP or sendmail
Configurations for network services such as naming services
New or changed crontab, printer, and mail files
System log, message, and accounting files
If Oracle Solaris Auditing is used, modifications to files might be required. For more information, see Using Oracle Solaris Auditing in Zones.
The following features cannot be configured in a non-global zone:
DHCP address assignment in a shared-IP zone
SSL proxy server
The resources specified in the configuration file are added when the zone transitions from installed to ready. A unique zone ID is assigned by the system. File systems are mounted, network interfaces are set up, and devices are configured. Transitioning into the ready state prepares the virtual platform to begin running user processes. In the ready state, the zsched and zoneadmd processes are started to manage the virtual platform.
zsched, a system scheduling process similar to sched, is used to track kernel resources associated with the zone.
zoneadmd is the zones administration daemon.
A zone in the ready state does not have any user processes executing in it. The primary difference between a ready zone and a running zone is that at least one process is executing in a running zone. See the init(1M) man page for more information.